I have Meraki MR42's installed at a 3 storey appartment. There are 8 appartments per floor, with 4 on one side and 4 on the opposite side. I have MR 42 AP's in 18 of the appartments (wall mounted) - and 6 appartments without. The AP's are in the same room numbers on each floor. example: 101, 201 and 301. I have a 200MB/s (symetrical) internet connection which comes in to a MX86 firewall and from there to a switch where all the APs connect to. Right now there are on average approx 216 clients connected at any one time, and can be a variation of smartphones, smartTV's, watches, macs, ipads, laptops, etc. Right now we have one SSID for each 2 appatrtments, for example, a SSID called 307/306 and users in those condos are given the password for that SSID so they can only connect to that SSID. On average there is approx 10 to 16 clients per SSID. We are trying this as an option as there is so much interference - with many dropped Zoom/TEAMs calls, Yotube videos, netflix etc. We have set a client per AP of 25MB/s (SSID is left at unlimited). Overall the experience is poor for all. I know there is documentation on recommendations for high density environments but is there something available for high interference environments? I also have the auto power (with a set range) and Auto channel. I am also using band steering. If I run a speedtest from an client connected to an AP I see approx 135MB's download and 75MB/s upload. If I look at the WAN bandwidth I have never seen it hit any higher than 100MB's - half of the 200MB's. Should I be looking at setting up group polices on MX? Should I change something such as a separate SSID for 2.4GHz and another for 5Ghz for all APs Shoud I be using traffic shaping? Should I be setting up speed on the MX appliance or on each SSID/AP? Should I be upping our internet connection speed? And if so to what? I have a Meraki vendor in looking at the issue, but I thought I would post here as well, in case others have run in to this situation and can share their insight. The vendor ran an assessment and this is how we determined the interferance. I apologize for the length of this post, I wanted to provide as much information as possible. I know I will get back many suggestions. that is fine. I am just trying to figure out what the solution would be to make this situation better. Thank you
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