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WAX214 AP ping Spikes on Internal Network, Why?
The WAX214 in question is running firmware 2.1.1.3. The ping testing is on 5 GHz which is the default channel 36 and this channel cannot be changed:
If I connect the WAX214 ethernet cable directly to my MBP I see no such spikes so they are related to 5 GHz wireless. Never had this problem with my old regular ASUS APs. I am using VLAN feature. The AP is connected to a GS305EPP switch. How do I troubleshoot this?
Thanks!
- Ensure a channel spacing of 80 MHz for the 5 GHz channels, and 40 MHz (depending on the 2.4GHz channel plan).
Spikes you see on same channel operations are collisions resp. interferences.
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Fiddled with with WiFi Channel Configure. Specified one channel for 5 GHz then went back to ALL (auto select). Initially both APs were using Channel 36. After fiddling with channels I set both back to All. Now each AP is using a different Channel and large latency spike is no more. Not sure why each AP didn't auto select a unique channel initially.
- Ensure a channel spacing of 80 MHz for the 5 GHz channels, and 40 MHz (depending on the 2.4GHz channel plan).
Spikes you see on same channel operations are collisions resp. interferences.
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