Best Practice Optimization by CLI for Zone Director

[jeff_roback]

Based upon reading through the various technotes and forum posts, we've come up with the following command-line optimizations for ruckus deployments. I'd like to hear from Ruckus if all of these are still valid/necessary with current configurations, and/or if anyone else has additional items they find helpful.

These are designed for public-access scenarios with moderate density, and the changes have been particularly focused on increasing compatibility with Mac OS, Apple TV and iOS clients.

1) for each wlan:
wlan "mywlan"
ofdm-only
bss-minrate 5.5
no qos directed-multicast
qos directed-threshold 0
No qos igmp-snooping

2) For each AP group:
ap-group "System Default"
no qos mld-query v1
no qos mld-query v2
no qos igmp-query v2
no qos igmp-query v3
qos query-Interval 0 directed multicast disable

[primoz_marinsek]

As Michael said. Recommendation for using Bonjour is to omit ofdm-only.

But by enabling it it doesn't mean 11b (and the old 802.11 only) clients will be blocked. They just won't be able to connect to a network that uses OFDM-only. They don't understand it since they only speak DSSS and HR-DSSS which is completely different modulation technique.

This is a 2 edged sword mind you. On one hand you're management frames will spend less time occupying the air living more time for actual client data, but If you have many 11b STAs around they could still cause you problems with their signal energy received by your APs and clients.

So by allowing 11b STAs and using a higher minimum rate of 5.5Mbps you hopefully get the better bit of both.