Bill H
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Slow Wifi Speed
Hey guys,
We have an office building with multiple floors and wireless AP's on them.
Now, the speed is very slow through the day and even slower obviously during peak hours.
I want to see what cost effective AP's we can go with, and what troubleshooting steps you think would be great.
We have an office building with multiple floors and wireless AP's on them.
Now, the speed is very slow through the day and even slower obviously during peak hours.
I want to see what cost effective AP's we can go with, and what troubleshooting steps you think would be great.
mikesmithccs
Are you stating that network traffic is slow, or internet traffic is slow?
ASKER
internet, on wired its fine.
So, if you go to one of you wireless computers that is experiencing the slowness and you run a continuous ping (-t) back to the gateway address, what kind of latency range do you see?
ASKER
i will do that again, but it did look good from last time. Im getting about 25% speed of what i get on wired.
I was thinking about bringing in some other WiFI equipment to test it from say a best buy. Which ones do you recommend?
Trying to just isolate some variables here.
I was thinking about bringing in some other WiFI equipment to test it from say a best buy. Which ones do you recommend?
Trying to just isolate some variables here.
Can you tell me what the latency is, in milliseconds?
ASKER
like 1ms.
ASKER
the gateway is a firewall though, not the AP's.
ok can you do the same to www.google.com and report back the latency.
And what were trying to do here is isolate the cause. Also, what kind of APs are these?
And what were trying to do here is isolate the cause. Also, what kind of APs are these?
What speed is wired? 1Gbps? 100Mbps?
What speed is wireless?
I'm talking about connection speeds, not how much speed you get... As in what link speed does the wired or wireless NIC say?
What speed is wireless?
I'm talking about connection speeds, not how much speed you get... As in what link speed does the wired or wireless NIC say?
ASKER
100mb
I'm talking about inet speed here not lan speed
I'm talking about inet speed here not lan speed
That's OK. I want to know what the link speed is before assessing what 'slow' is, so if you could tell me what the wireless connection speed is too that'd be great.
ASKER
It is N
Thanks, but that doesn't tell me what speed the wireless client is connecting at.
Saying it is N could mean anything between 1Mbps and 450Mbps.
Saying it is N could mean anything between 1Mbps and 450Mbps.
ASKER
Its a g network. Its a ubiquity setup.
I walked around today and I noticed even though, I had good signal ping times were poor and speed tests were not good either.
I walked around today and I noticed even though, I had good signal ping times were poor and speed tests were not good either.
ASKER
Some areas were good, others very poor.
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