Wireless Access

Hi,

  I have been allover the place trying to find some QoS documentations for Aruba RAP. Any VRDs available for QoS best practice when it comes to RAP? Thanks in advance. 

After some research I reach out to the following conclusion:

In terms of QoS in RAP deployment, you don’t really have much. The unfortunate part is that the internet itself will not honor any QoS that you put onto a device. You have a single option you can do, but you need to have your deployment in either split-tunnel mode or bridged mode, which is something not a lot of people doing. This option is to reserve bandwidth for a specific type of traffic on the uplink of the RAP. The documentation for this option is below:

https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/ArubaOS_80_Web_Help/Content/ArubaFrameStyles/Remote_AP/Uplink_Bandwidth_Reserva.htm

I have two takes on this option:

1. Most of ISP’s residential plans are above 20 Mbps, so reserving bandwidth will not really help as we will have a lot of extra bandwidth already. Though this might works in enterprise setting as you have your branch office with something like 1 Gig uplink and need to reserve bandwidth
2. You can’t be on tunnel mode when using this option, the WLAN has to be on split-tunnel mode or bridge mode, which 99% of enterprises not doing that

That is my findings and if someone has something to add that would be great for our Airheads community. 

Find here a slightly related Airheads Learning video:

Performance Tuning for Remote Access Points.