Does the height of two AP have to be the same?

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Spectrum analyzer
2018-03-21 03:10:24
Have you run the spectrum analyzer on you units? It will tell you if there is interference (also known as noise). If there is noise then change the channel and/or frequency. 2.4Ghz is very common, so youmight do much better with a couple of 5Ghz units (CPE510)
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Re:Does the height of two AP have to be the same?
2018-03-21 05:06:54
What makes you think that this message:

vasil wrote

"unrecognized public network"


has anything to do with this:

The old wa270g get 30kbps on a vdsl that gets 45mbps.

and - again - how did you measure the 30kbps exactly? What has VDSL to do with WiFi speed?

I have set up a TL-WA7210 <-> CPE210 link and I get following throughput with default settings (WA7210 is AP, CPE210 is client, encryption is WPA2, rest is default).

First a quick'n'dirty built-in speed test of TL-WA7210 sending WiFi frames to the CPE210:






Looks good, full 150 Mbps 802.11n mode wireless speed, which equals around 100 Mbps data throughput, to be capped by the Fast-Ethernet interface of CPE/TL-WA for real data flow in later tests. That's best speed the TL-WA7210 can provide, but it's indoor and very short distance, so no wonder.

Next, a TCP/IP test with iperf on a laptop behind the CPE to a server behind the TL-WA7210:





That's real throughput for data, difference to the ~100 Mbit/s above is caused by replies for data sent, the additional WiFi frame layer and some loss in the TCP/IP layer. Next, speed on LAN interface of CPE210:





Matches real throughput measured with iperf. No surprise.

Now the throughput on the TL-WA7210 (actually, a different measurement, but mostly the same result):





Again, WIFi speed, some loss most certainly by replies to the client and possible retransmissions/collisions.

Now send your screenshots of actual WiFi throughput (not web "speed tests"), please. But make sure to saturate the 100 Mbit/s interface of the CPE210/TL-WA7210 during the test to avoid getting wrong results and drawing wrong conclusions from such tests.
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Re:Does the height of two AP have to be the same?
2018-03-23 04:44:57
First of all the 5ghz aps wont connect, they refuse to connect. They keep bringing up "unidentified public network" So i have to use the old wa5210g I have been looking into my router ZTE H267A, apparently other people have connection issues but i couldnt find anything specific for bridge, someone tried to use links for repeater and he fixed the issue by forcing DHCP in both devices. Another one managed to get bridge in a similar device by finding the ISP's passwords for the router and unlock hidden menus and create a new connection. I dont understand how to use the iperf but i did the speed test in the wa5210g menu and the ap transmits with 95.55 mbps while the receiver ap receives only 0.16 mbps. Makes sense becasue the last few days the speeds are lower than usual,pages barely load. So i guess that means the wa5210g is dying or there are too many 2.5ghz signals in the area. But the problem remains. I connect 2 WA7510N and i got "unidentified network" and "public network" under it. i saw how other people have this problem with WA7510N and i got a cpe510. I tried connecting it to both WA7510N, yup "unidentified network" whats causing this and how to fix it?
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Re:Does the height of two AP have to be the same?
2018-03-23 04:46:29

kroorda wrote

Have you run the spectrum analyzer on you units? It will tell you if there is interference (also known as noise). If there is noise then change the channel and/or frequency. 2.4Ghz is very common, so youmight do much better with a couple of 5Ghz units (CPE510)


Does the wa5210g have that? I know the 5ghz models have a spectrum analyzer but like i said THEY WONT CONNECT.


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Re:Does the height of two AP have to be the same?
2018-03-26 19:35:30
I maged to get the wa7510n to connect in access point mode, 15kbps. What on earth is going on?
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