I aplogise in advance if this is not the right place to post this question and I understand in depth answers may not be available, but I wanted to get some general opinions/advice on my situation.
I just started at a company that is trouble shooting connection drops, not connecting and slow / unstable speeds, etc at a hotel. (Problems happening at random times, random APs, floors,etc) The hotel is 10 floors (125 rooms) with 2 Aruba IAP 103s (i think 6.4.0.2-4.1)
on each floor (2F-10F) and 1 AP in the lobby, so 19 total APs. There are 10 networks (1 per floor) and also 10 zones (1 per floor). The APs are unfortunetly in the hallways 1 AP on each end of hallway and basically they are stacked.
The VC is communicating with all the other APs, about a month or two ago becuase of the problems such as dropped connections, no connection, slow speed, etc they disabled the 5GHz band on all APs and are just using 2GHz, they claim things got a better but of course there are still problems. They had the min TX power at 18 and the Max at Max, filter broadcast set to ARP., band steering set to disable (doesnt matter anyway since they not using 5GHz). Well, I recommended to set Tx pwer min/max to 12 and 18 repectivily and turn back on the 5ghz band and band steering. However they instead disabled the ARM and manually set each AP to either channel 1,6,or 11 and set the power to 21. Does this seem like a wise thing to do? any thoughts?