Make sure everything is on firmware 13.2 i have seen strange results mixing 430/450 radios on the earlier firmware
Sent from my iPhone Kurt Fankhauser Wavelinc Communications P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 http://www.wavelinc.com tel. 419-562-6405 fax. 419-617-0110 > On Feb 18, 2015, at 4:29 PM, That One Guy <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 Support >>> Plexicomm - Internet Solutions | www.plexicomm.net >>> Office: 1.866.759.4678 x109 | Fax: 1.866.852.4688 >>> Emergency Support: 1.866.759.9713 | 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
