cjoseph,
My only concern about turning an AP into airm monitor mode is that I'll lose the 5GHz radio as well, right? An AP can't be in AM mode for one band and serve clients in the other band, right?
@NightShade1 wrote:
Beisdes what Collin and i telling you
I would like to know if your enviroment is a high density envirtoment
If it is you should consider
1-Turn on Airtime fairness if you havent
2-Take a look on how many users are connnected per band on one AP( let say if you using internal applications and you got like 50 users on one band you surely willl have issues in that AP)
3-If its possible use VLan poolin with small vlans of /24, try not passing of 10 vlan pools mapped to 1 SSID
4-Make sure you please get rid of that many SSIds, Bealive you will be able to work with 2 or 3 SSIDs if you use 802.1x and derived roles... if you already using 802.1x and not using derived roles consider using it so you can get rid of that many SSIDs.
5-Consider doing Link aggregation between the controller and the Switch you are plugging it, this will help you to have fail over and also if you got HIGH traffic to evade bottle necks
6-Be sure you are connecting ALL the APS to ports of 1000 and also that they syncronized on speed of 1000( you can see that by cli and well you can also see that by lookin at the ap, if the enet power led is not green, and is like orange, then its connected at 100 and you will have a bottle neck there.
7-Turn on like Collin told you filter broadcast and multicast
8-Block Chatty protocols if you can, like bonjour, on the wireless ports.
This is asumming you got all in the same site and you dont have multisites, which then ill need to know to give more recommendations
Cheers
Carlos
1. Is enabled. Set to fair access.
2. It's about a 50/50 split. However, 3/4 of total sessions calculated for a week are on 5GHz.
3. I've thought about using VLAN pools, but wasn't sure what the benefit would be. I will definitely consider doing this.
4. I ran another test today and disabled 3 SSIDs that are hardly in use. I noticed a HUGE decrease in utilization on 2.4GHz. We're working on a ClearPass implementation and I plan to get rid of the 3 extra SSIDs when we go live.
5. I don't believe we're saturating this link, but still a good suggestions.
7. Filter Bc/Mc is already enabled.
I think getting rid of the extra SSIDs is going to be one of the best things we can do to decrease 2.4GHz utilization, as testing has confirmed. I appreciate all of the suggestions you guys have made!