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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 c...
- 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.
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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