EAP 660HD retried rate bad
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I seam to be having horrible retried rates with on the 660 hd. Running a Eap 245 v3 and a 660hd using Software controller . (not in mesh ) all Hard wired.
Ill attach a photo below showing both ap. What is causing this. Is it my devices ( alot of wifi light switches and what not). Not seeing any changes in quality on my phones/laptops.
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Ok so deffinately a lot of IOT 2.4ghz there... off the bat I would also enabled AI Roaming as it appears to help.
Can you go to devices and enabled a few of the extra columns and send a screenshot like below?
Just curious what the utilistation on the 2g vs 5g is and what channels you are running. In my example below I have 2x 245s and the airspace is around 30% with only 6 devices on the 2.4... wondering what you are seeing
Perfect thanks!
The first thing that jumps at me is you have quite a few 2.4ghz devices, 27 in total which is not insignificant.. not awful, but enough to cause 2.4 airtime congestion.
Try changing the channel on the 660 manually to something else away from 9, you may find something like WiFi Analyser for Android will help you choose a channel. I would go for 11 / 12 or 13 if that is possible, 9 is an odd number for the controller to choose and would likely indicate congestion. In 2.4ghz there are only 3 channels that will not overlap, namely 1 6 and 11. Its not uncommon for these to be quite heavily saturated by neighbours so it trys to squeeze into the middle (3 or 9) and really it's not great as you are going to interfere with 6 and 11. Sometimes it's better to pick the lesser congested and stick with it.
The screenshot below is just off the internet but might help show the issue. If I was going to place 2x access points into this background I would pick channel 6 first as its the lowest, the second one i would likely try 11 as its lower than 1 is.. or even 13 as it will only interfere with part of 11 and nothing else.. This is the common problem with 2.4ghz today.
In short if you are getting retries, then its airspace congestion in that specific area the 660 is located. Sadly not an uncommon issue but does require manual changing of the channel.
Also, reduce the channel width on 2.4ghz for both access points to 20mhz would help sort this, again the picture above shows each SSID on a 20mhz width, increasing this to 40mhz just floods more space and can make things worse! Channel 1 on 40mhz would interfere with 1-9 so 70% of the total airspace.. if you have any congestion at all, don't use 40mhz
If channel helps it, then consider also enabling Airtime Fairness on the 2.4 (i would leave it off on the 5ghz). Airtime fairness is a way to control the traffic on the airspace, it basically allocates slots for each device to use and can reduce load / retries at the expense of speed, however as these are IOT devices capacity over speed every time!
Give that a try and report back, even include a screenie of the Analyser if you want and we can take a look.. you don't have to worry about hiding your SSID unless you really want too... its not something that needs to be hidden on here as its totally nonidentifiable.
You could also try moving the 5ghz on the 660 to channel 48 and see if that helps reduce the retries some more. Both your APs are on 36 which is grand as its not getting any use really, however one to 44/48 wont do any harm and might help a tad
Any hassle just drop an update here
All ready on best channel for 2.4 and using 20mhz but I'll try turning on airtime on the 2.4. I'm the red
Ran another scan. This time allowed phone a 30 sec longer before screen shot. As u can see my neighbors are plenty. But the closest house is roughly 85 ft from mine. And that's not including where they have their home router. Also side note this is using the Galaxy s21 ultra.
