I have an open wireless network with a wide variety of unmanaged devices (laptops, tablets, phones, video streaming boxes, game consoles, etc.). Users are increasingly relying on wireless for video chat, voice, and live streaming.
In order to improve the user experience I am investigating turning on WMM. Currently, the only traffic shaping policy we have is "fair-access". Can anyone help me answer the following questions:
- How prevalent are WMM enabled clients? Is it common among the industry leaders?
- What happens to clients which don't support WMM? Do they automatically receive lowest priority? Are there issues connecting to the network?
- What are the RF ramifications? Higher channel utilization? Increased error rate?
- What are the biggest risk I would run by enabling WMM?
- How does WMM work in a high-density environment with high channel utilization?
- Are there any additional knobs I should adjust before enabling WMM?
Any insight into your experience with WMM would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tony