doesnt the spreadsheet let you put in 430 SMs? On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Mark Radabaugh <m...@amplex.net> wrote:
> We have done this multiple times. I would expect to see performance > basically double for any customer you switch from a 430SM to a 450SM. > Overall throughput of the AP should increase pretty proportionally as you > replace 430 SM's with 450's. If you were capping out the 430 (which seems > odd if you were only pushing 24Mb), and you didn't swap any of those > customers to 450 SM it would still be doing the same as the 430. > > We are seeing peaks of ~41Mbps on a 450 AP with 83 customers with a split > of 63 430 SM's and 20 450 SM's. Yeah, it's probably time for another AP, > but I see plenty of customers holding 4 and 6Mb steady. > > Mark > > > > On Feb 18, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Sam Kirsch <sam...@plexicomm.net> wrote: > > I have a 450 that was very recently put up in place of a 430AP. 16/22 > Customers are 430s in Interop mode, the rest are 450s. > > What can I expect as maximum throughput? I was sort of expecting greater > or equal performance to a 430, but I've had a lot of odd feeback from > customers since we switched this over from a 430 AP to a 450AP with mostly > 430SMs. > > I only have one Microtik at a customer location that I can do a bandwidth > tests too but it's a rate limited SM, so its a little hard to gauge based > on that alone. Most of the time it seems like there should be plenty of > bandwidth available, but just getting too much odd feedback to not check > out all the possibilities. > > The bandwidth usage charge also tracks a falling utilization over the past > few weeks. I've gone from seeing peaks at 22-24mpbs to peaks at > 12-15mbps. Nothing should have changed out there as far as usage, I'd > still be expecting to see something in the neighborhood of 22-24 on > average. If anything it should be pushing more as the schools are all off > for a week. > > Does anyone have any sort of clear info on what we should be expecting > here? > > > *-- Samuel Kirsch, Network SupportPlexicomm - Internet > Solutions | www.plexicomm.net* > *Office: 1.866.759.4678 x109 <1.866.759.4678%20x109> | Fax: 1.866.852.4688 > <1.866.852.4688>* > *Emergency Support: 1.866.759.9713 <1.866.759.9713> | sam...@plexicomm.net > <sam...@plexicomm.net>* > > > -- All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
