R510 Network Slow Speeds averaging 30-50 Mbps

[david_fry_jz089]

Hello,
I have 3 R510's in my home.  1 for each floor, ceiling mounted and placed central to each floor.   None of the clients on our network can ever achieve more than 50Mbps.   My PC which is 15ft around a slight corner from the AP got 30 Mbps down and 80Mbps up on an AP to Client speed test.

I am fairly technical, but Wi-Fi AP's is not my specialty.   I found this great thread where changing the setting from "performance" to "compatibility" helped tremendously.
https://forums.ruckuswireless.com/ruckuswireless/topics/settings-to-maximize-performance-2-x-r610-ru...

I don't see anything like that.

I have 1GB cable modem, and am about to change my network to a Dual Wan 1Gb Fiber Connection + a 200Mbps Cable connection.  But none of this does any good if the clients are stuck at 30Mbps.

Any thoughts on how to optimize this network?

Thanks

[david_fry_jz089]

Thanks John... I'm up to 150 so that is better for sure.  I'll get an 802.11ac adapter and see how we do.

[david_fry_jz089]

SNR for current client is 56 to closest AP and 49 to Main AP which is just below my computer on the 1st floor

[syamantakomer]

Hi David,

I don't want to generalize it but you could try tweaking below settings and see how much it can improve.

- Enable the OFDM.
- Set BSS min rate set to 12 Mbps.
- Enable band balancing and force clients to 5G radio.
- Disable overlapping channels on 2.4 G radio.
- Set channelization to 40 for 2.4 Radio and 80 for 5 Ghz (though it depends upon clien UE wireless capabilities what max speed it can achieve).
- Disable the self healing.
- Change scanning mechanism from channel fly to background scanning (set it to 600-1000 for 2.4 G and 600 for 5G).
- Enable 802.11N/AC only (Assuming that you don't have very old devices which only supports a/b/g and not n/ac).
- Set tx power to full (If it was modified to lower values manually).

Also I want to point that R510 APs can maximum support upto 867Mbps (if UE supports 802.11ac and connecting to 80MHz in ideal conditions).




Regards,
Syamantak Omer

[david_fry_jz089]

Thanks, I just got an 802.11ac adapter and my bandwidth is now around 200mbps.  With 30+ clients connecting (smart home stuff everywhere) as well as my wife working downstairs, I think this is a pretty acceptable rate.  I'm going to try the changes suggested above to test and see if there is any increase, I suspect anything at this point is incremental.

Thanks all

[andrew_giancol1]

Cool man, glad we could help you review. it's a powerful reminder that sometimes, what's written on the side of the box isn't what we get when equipment is put into production. Take care and be safe!