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AP10 Terrible Range and Throughput

I just added a AP10 to my home user setup and the performance is terrible, I was expecting to see a range bump over the consumer grade netgear router I had running as a access point. The signal strength is actually worse than what I had, I am getting like 50% from about 15 ft away with clear sight. Doing FTP transfers are really slow and even web browsing lags. Is there a way to change signal power in these? What are others seeing for performance? Maybe I just have a dud??

Thanks for your input.

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0 rfcat_vk over 12 years ago

Hi,
I would suspect you have a configuration problem. I have 2 AP10s and neither of them have that problem. My blackberry seems to prefer my AP10 over the AP30 which is physically closer to it.

Please advise your wifi configuration.

Ian

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0 ataylor over 12 years ago

as far as hardware I have the AP10 going into a simple gigabit switch, which also the server running esxi with an ASG VM on it is connected.
Is a screen shot of how I have the network setup. http://screencast.com/t/kVi5tBswJJ
If I do a file transfer with the AP10 I get like 1.5MB/s if I switch over to the Netgear it goes to 5~6/MB/s
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0 rfcat_vk over 12 years ago in reply to ataylor

When you go to the wireless protection page on the webadmin what speed does your laptop show as connecting at?
Is your AP10 setup for autochannel allocation?

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0 ataylor over 12 years ago

it shows 70% 43.3Mbit yes it is on autochannel
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0 ataylor over 12 years ago

when I connect my phone to the Ap also it then makes my PC drop to 26Mbit, then start bouncing around as I refresh
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0 rfcat_vk over 12 years ago in reply to ataylor

Hi,
sounds like it might you might have a faulty powersuply.

Ian

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0 ataylor over 12 years ago

Tried changing power supply, still the same, put a higher gain antenna, still the same. Weird thing is, if I use a signal meter app on my phone, the signal gets stronger if I reduce the power to 50% for the AP
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0 ataylor over 12 years ago

Re posting here, I missed this section for my original post here.
http://www.astaro.org/astaro-gateway-products/hardware-installation-up2date-licensing/42803-ap10-terrible-range-throughput.html

I just added a AP10 to my home user setup and the performance is terrible, I was expecting to see a range bump over the consumer grade netgear router I had running as a access point. The signal strength is actually worse than what I had, I am getting like 50% from about 15 ft away with clear sight. Doing FTP transfers are really slow and even web browsing lags. Is there a way to change signal power in these? What are others seeing for performance? Maybe I just have a dud??

Thanks for your input.
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0 hschaa over 12 years ago in reply to ataylor

The AP10 doesn't use 40Mhz channels and as such can only get a maximum physical layer throughput of 72Mbps as it is a single-stream device.

Is this with the v9 beta? If not I'd suggest to try v9.

Helmut
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0 ataylor over 12 years ago

I tried switching to beta9 its still bad. I get about the same signal strength from a neighbors 2wire as I do from the ap10 15 feet from me.
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