Hello,
I have a wireless network consisting of 6 Aruba AP-305 access points.
Performance of the network is generally good, but the clients connecting to just 1 of the access points regularly have very poor connection speeds. The connection speeds on all the other access points are fine.
The configuration across all the access points is consistent, so the variables as I see them are the AP location and the physical route back to the switch.
I have tried moving the AP a little closer to the clients (a matter of 0.5 metres maybe, but from the "wrong" side of a glass partition), and have verified that the ethernet connection for the access point is operating at 1gbps on the switch. Although, I wouldn't expect that to affect the connection speed between the clients and the access point.
As I type, the speeds for the 18 clients connected range from 39mbps to 243mbps. However, only 4 clients have connection speeds above 108mbps. Contrast this with another of our access points, whose 21 clients range from 58mbps to 600mbps, where only 5 of the clients have a speed of 150mbps or lower. Put simply, the problem access point features mainly amber coloured speeds, the healthy ones are mainly green speeds.
All users/clients in the area have line of sight to the access point, and the furthest away user sits perhaps 10-12 metres away from the access point. So I would expect performance to be good, and can't see a reason for the performance to lag so far behind the other access points.
Could someone recommend what I should be looking at to try and improve the connection speeds for this 1 access point, or what the cause might be?
Many thanks!