Wireless Access

Okay, I really have looked, and I can't find an article about enabling 802.11n.  We have AP135s replacing AP65s, and I would like some help in enabling the "N" radio on them. 

I looked in the controller, looked at some of the documentation, and it doesn't look like a simple task.  Any references out there (that aren't too large?)?

802.11n should be enabled automatically.

In each Radio Profile (802.11a and 802.11g,) there should be a High Throughput Enable knob.  That is the master switch for High Throughput  (802.11n) to be enabled.

Under each SSID,  there is a HT SSID profile, which determines if 802.11n will be active for each SSID.  Again, it is on by default:

Top reason why you will not see 802.11n throughput:

- You are using WEP or TKIP (neither type of encryption support 802.11n) - Only Open and AES support 802.11n

"- You are using WEP or TKIP (neither type of encryption support 802.11n) - Only Open and AES support 802.11n"

Okay i didnt know this... i knew that with tkip and wep coudl not reach the highest performance(speed because on the VRD says so) BUT i did tknow that they could not actually use 802.11n?

http://community.arubanetworks.com/t5/AAA-NAC-Guest-Access-BYOD/WEP-TKIP-being-removed-from-Wi-Fi-certified-products/m-p/6309/highlight/true#M2735

Excellling link!!! thank you! i will share this with our clients...  a few  of them still got tkip even if i told them that they wont reach maximum speed and aruba does not recommend it..

Cheers

Carlos

Sorry, but we are a Radius with 802.1x shop.   We are not using TKIP, and the HT setting is enabled.  I checked.

What does the Channel listing look like on the AP-135 5 GHz radios ?

is it 40, 149, 152  or 40+, 149+, 152-  (Plus'es and minus'es as a suffix on each channel) ?

Forgive my ignorance, but where would you see this?  At the AP, or Controller cli?

Try the Dashboard under clients. 

Are you sure your devices are not using TKIP?

(192.168.1.3) #show dot1x supplicant-info list-all

802.1x User Information
-----------------------
     MAC             Name            Auth  AP-MAC                 Enc-Key/Type               Auth-Mode     EAP-Type  Remote
------------       --------          ----  ------             -------------------           -----------   ---------  ------
00:23:6c:90:05:11  employee-mac      Yes   00:1a:1e:20:82:e1  * * * * * * * */WPA2-AES      Explict Mode  EAP-PEAP   No
84:3a:4b:34:1d:2c                    No    00:1a:1e:1d:c0:f2  * * * * * * * */WPA2-PSK-AES  Explict Mode  -          No
f8:f1:b6:2b:8d:65  employee-android  Yes   00:1a:1e:1d:bc:41  * * * * * * * */WPA2-AES      Explict Mode  EAP-PEAP   No
d0:e7:82:7b:65:ca                    No    00:1a:1e:20:82:e0  * * * * * * * */WPA2-PSK-AES  Explict Mode  -          No
ac:22:0b:40:ee:75  employee-android  Yes   00:1a:1e:20:82:f3  * * * * * * * */WPA2-AES      Explict Mode  EAP-PEAP   No
e8:92:a4:96:6f:43  employee-android  Yes   00:1a:1e:20:82:e1  * * * * * * * */WPA2-AES      Explict Mode  EAP-PEAP   No
b0:ee:45:49:6f:b6                    No    00:1a:1e:1d:c0:e0  * * * * * * * */WPA2-PSK-AES  Explict Mode  -          No
9c:04:eb:75:5f:c0                    No    00:1a:1e:20:82:e0  * * * * * * * */WPA2-PSK-AES  Explict Mode  -          No
18:b4:30:07:77:f1                    No    00:1a:1e:20:82:e0  * * * * * * * */WPA2-PSK-AES  Explict Mode  -          No

Station Entries: 9

When I connect with a N capable client, dual stream, I get a 54 Mbps rate, and it says 802.11a.  It gives me no indication that N is working at all.  It just looks like an 802.11a client with the typical 802.11a speed.

Well, based on the replies here, I see that there are a number of changes we have to make to get N to work.  Thanks to everyone for their replies.

So, based on the replies here, I see we have a number of changes we have to make.  I wish Aruba had a guide somewhere, but so far I haven't seen it.

Thanks to all!

On the support website, under documentation:  http://support.arubanetworks.com/DOCUMENTATION/tabid/77/DMXModule/512/Default.aspx?EntryId=8856