Wireless Access

We just started installing AP-303H APs throughout our dorm. We have three installed at this point. They're all connected to our HP Procurve 3500yl switches. The 3500yls are 802.3af compliant as is the AP-303H.

 

Two of the 303Hs are pulling in 13W and the other is consuming 15.4W. According to the specs, they shouldn't be using more than 9W.

 

I'm worried about installing the rest of these if they are consuming so much power. Does anyone have any ideas?

Do you have any PoE-PD connected to the 303H?

 

Excludes power consumed by external USB and/or
PoE-PD device (and internal losses); this could add up to
6.1W (PoE) for a 5W/1A USB device and up to 15.6W for
a max load (15.4W) 802.3af PoE-PD device

Nope, it’s just the AP connected to the wall.

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Odd, assuming you have LLDP enabled on switch port?

LLDP is enabled on all ports. As it turns out, it seems that our Procurve 3500YL switches can’t handle these 303H APs even though both are 802.3af compliant. 

 

We added a POE+ switch to our data closet just for this project. The new switch handles the power without an issue.

After doing some further digging, the GUI is stating 15.8W but the CLI actual power value is 4.3W. 

 

I'm not sure if there's a bug? I'm happy with 4.3W but it's strange how the GUI is stating something different.