@bbelew wrote:
Waited for the leases to expire and it looks like it is in fact working :)
Also dug in and tweaked the ARM default profile to boost the min power, and turned on the auto AM setting. Was actually quite surprised how good it thinks the signal is. It shut off all but 2 AP's in our junior high and set the rest as air monitors - and they are all around 60' apart.
Wow, how many APs do you have? Are they all in the same rooms? If walls are separating them, I am surprised that all but 2 turned into air monitors. If the are 60' apart, with walls separating them, or like Harold said, in a the hallway, I would disable mode aware.
Like Harold said, mode aware is determined by AP to AP listening, not AP to client. If AP-1 hears AP-2 really well, but there is a client on the outskirts of AP-2's coverage area, with mode aware AP-2 will become an air monitor. AP-1 wont be able to provide coverage to the client on the outskirts of AP-2's coverage area. Therefore the client wont be able to connect.