topic Re: Ruckus R650 slower on POE than AC in Unleashed

Ruckus R650 slower on POE than AC

nick_s — Tue, 24 May 2022 12:26:03 GMT

I've been running my Ruckus R650 for a few months and I've been happy with the reliability but slightly disappointed with the speeds. Even with a direct line of sight to the AP the fastest speeds I could get were 400Mbps. After some troubleshooting I've discovered that switching from POE to plugging in an AC adapter allows me to hit >900Mbps speeds. I don't understand why that's the case when I wasn't getting any power warnings and I even tried manually setting the AP to 802.3at. Has anyone seen this? Any ways around the limitation?

Re: Ruckus R650 slower on POE than AC

Squozen — Tue, 24 May 2022 15:28:23 GMT

Are you definitely seeing 802.3at from the switch? Is LLDP enabled?

Re: Ruckus R650 slower on POE than AC

nick_s — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:34:04 GMT

LLDP is enabled. The switch is set to provide 802.3at and the R650 was also manually set to the same. There were no power warnings on the R650 as I have seen with my R720.

Re: Ruckus R650 slower on POE than AC

Squozen — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:44:01 GMT

What's the switch? I'm not seeing that behaviour with my rubbish TP-Link.

Re: Ruckus R650 slower on POE than AC

nick_s — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:48:58 GMT

It's a Brocade ICX6450, I tried different ports with the same issue. If my ICX6610 had POE I would try that. What kind of speeds do you see with your setup?

Re: Ruckus R650 slower on POE than AC

Squozen — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:58:51 GMT

About 850Mbps with an Ookla Speedtest. I haven’t tried iperf3.