RF Profile and Tx Power

[AxL1971]

What are others doing in an open office with RF profiles on MR56

Recommended settings. I have noticed some AP have more devices connected than others. I have disabled client balancing as this in the past has caused issues.

Just seeing what others have setup.

[RWelch]

I too would be interested in hearing/learning about other's approach.

I tend to allocate a separate RF profile to each AP in order to be able to adjust RX/TX pwr and channel selection between adjacent APs.  This might not be the most ideal solution if you have a lot of APs.

The wifi client determines which AP it connects to and when to roam.

[cmr]

We had set lots of manual overrides and then found that in open plan, the automatic settings actually work better.  How many clients are you getting on a radio/band on a busier AP?

[AxL1971]

I have noticed an AP in the middle of the open plan office is getting upto 55 clients connected, we only broadcast on the 5 Ghz SSID.

I suspect the tx power is very high hence clients further away will connect to this access point and saturating it with users complaining about Teams calls and other network activity..

This is the TX power settings in the RF profile

[cmr]

@AxL1971 15dBm isn't particularly high, but could be reduced, are there any overrides to the APs in that area?  If you go to the radio settings page in the dashboard, you can see the current settings and click to confirm if there are overrides:

[AxL1971]

no overrides set to Auto, what is best dbM setting to use, I would like to keep the signal footprint to a optimal settings, so clients will connect to the access point closer rather than this particular one.

[cmr]

The AP you have shown has the 2.4 down at 2dBm which will be a very small coverage area.  However, you stated that you only use the 5GHz band.  If your APs are fairly close together, I'd go with a maximum of something like 10 dBm, but make sure this doesn't leave gaps!

[AxL1971]

I put the incorrect setting, this is for the correct one for the 5 Ghz

[cmr]

@AxL1971, how close together are your APs?  That one is down at 2dBm as well, so will have a very short range.

[AxL1971]

I would say about 20 metres apart

[PhilipDAth]

These are reasonably safe settings that I have been using for years.