Hi Vestra,
The max. WiFi association speed (not a speedtest) depends on a some parameters, for example the channel-width, Signal-to-Noise (SNR, Signal Strength, Guard Interval and Spatial Streams (antenna count) that is supported by the AP as well the client. This all together give you a Modulation and Coding what desire what the max. WiFi association speed can be, we talk here about a 802.11 Wi-Fi frame and NOT a 802.3 ethernet frame.
The max. speedtest what you can get is roughly 50% of the Wifi association speed. Why? Because Wi-Fi have a big overhead vs the payload. Example: Before Elon Musk can bring a small satellite into space he needs a huge rocket. The huge rocket is the 802.11 wifi frame and the satellite is the 802.3 ethernet frame, your real network data.
So wifi frames have a large overhead versus the ethernet payload. But there is more. Wifi known interference, more interference is more re-transmissions. Every WiFi network have some re-transmissions of data. And a third factor is that Wi-Fi is a half-duplex medium that only can speak one by one. You will not notice this in a not crowded area but when there are a lot of wifi users the air will be crowded and everyone is wait on each other (in the same channel).
OK! Why is your home wifi faster then you experience with an enterprise solution on the office? Because! :). Vendors will show there best capabilities, put the hardware on the maximum limits, most important one is the put them on 160Mhz channels to get te fastest performance. But at home it is ONLY YOU, and maybe a neighbor that use the spectrum some times. At the office there can be 100 or 1000s of access points with many clients that all using the wifi during a officeday, low latency apps like MS Teams etc. are using the hole day.
At this point you need the share the air with others, we need more separate channels that not interfere with each others to hold the waiting lines low. So we put the access points on the office on 40MHz, much lower speeds but we have a great performance (stability) for everybody because we can use more separate channels then we had with 160Mhz.
So the 160MHz channels that u can use at home will not fit in a crowdy office and that's where its different. Also maybe your AP can support 160MHz channels and have a lot spatial stream antennes (AP-515 has 2x2:2 at 2.4Ghz and 4:4:4x at 5Ghz), but most client chipsets in the phones only support 80MHz max. with maybe 2x2:2, so the speed wil lower then the access point can deliver.
Please note that the max. speed that the vendor is put on the box is never reachable, they show you the max. 802.11 modulation rates without any loss, do you remember the big rocket of Elon? So that's why you must be lucky when you get 50% of it in a real speedtest, the rest depends on configuration and design for office networks.
If you like to known more about modulation and coding scheme's, take a look here.
https://semfionetworks.com/blog/mcs-table-updated-with-80211ax-data-rates/------------------------------
Marcel Koedijk | MVP Expert 2022 | ACEP | ACMP | ACCP | ACDP | Ekahau ECSE | Not an HPE Employee | Opinions are my own
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Original Message:
Sent: Aug 10, 2022 03:49 AM
From: Herman Robers
Subject: AP 515 giving low speed
Which channel and channel width do you have configured?
With how many spatial streams does your client connect to each of the APs?
Could it be that the supermarket AP is configured with 160MHz channels, where the AP515 uses 40MHz (and 4 SS) or 80MHz (and 2 SS) to get to 1.2Gbps?
There are other posts on this forum to explain that using 160MHz channels may work in residential applications, but not in enterprise.
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Herman Robers
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Original Message:
Sent: Aug 09, 2022 09:05 AM
From: Andr� Beck
Subject: AP 515 giving low speed
Did anyone manage to get a connection speed with 2.4Gbps connection speed?
This should be possible with DL-MU-MIMO devices.
My HP laptops connects with 2.4Gbps to every cheap supermarket ax-ap, but only with 1.2Gbps to 515 (instant).
Thx.
Original Message:
Sent: Aug 29, 2019 12:39 PM
From: Zaffar Iqbal
Subject: AP 515 giving low speed
We have implemented AP 515 with 1 Giga speed internet and all the layer 2 & 3 devices have 10 g single mode connection.
Each port in SW and connection to AP gives around 1 Giga speed download and upload 1:1 stable through ethernet.
From a laptop when I test the AP wireless maximum of 400 Mbps can be reached.
Even when we are close to AP.
Aruba sensor can reach around 800 Mbps
We need to reach the speed of 800 at least through wireless.
Kindly assist.
controller 7210 Aos 8.5.2
And AP 510