topic Re: How effective is channelfly? in Access Points - Indoor and Outdoor

How effective is channelfly?

adam_tran_76457 — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:57:44 GMT

I see channel-fly jumping to the overlapping channel a lot (2.4ghz) I am wondering how effective is this in an environment where 2.4ghz is noisy?

should I go in CLI and Blacklist the overlapping channel?

Re: How effective is channelfly?

john_d — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 02:42:55 GMT

Channel fly is more effective than manual heuristics such as 1/6/11. That's because it dynamically scores each channel it chooses based off ACTUAL throughout rather than predicted throughout.

In particular, sometimes overlapping channels with side interference will still outperform a busy non-overlapping channel. Or, you might be next to a very non-busy AP and even though Channelfly picked the same channel for both AP's, it's fine.

The key with Channelfly is that it's able to dynamically adapt to changing channel capacity. If you want to do a similar job, you basically need to run continuous surveys by hand!

Re: How effective is channelfly?

seanmuir — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:23:23 GMT

It may also be worth knowing that Channel Fly version 2 is coming out, which will bring significant improvements to an already a great way of improving throughput.

Re: How effective is channelfly?

john_d — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:27:29 GMT

Whoa! Tell us more 🙂

Re: How effective is channelfly?

seanmuir — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:42:51 GMT

Re: How effective is channelfly?

john_d — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:51:52 GMT

Well that sounds wonderful! I presume this is a ZoneFlex 10.0 thing?

Re: How effective is channelfly?

seanmuir — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 01:15:11 GMT

I think so as it didn't hit the 9.12.2 release notes.

Re: How effective is channelfly?

dave_watkins_74 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:34:33 GMT

That last one about preserving over reboots might just be a reason for me to try it again on 5Ghz