no clients connected but 100s of MB of traffic per day
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Setup: Omada SDN controller 4.1.5, 2 EAP245v3 + 1 EAP225 Outdoor
Currently, no clients are active, yet I see quite some traffic on the EAPs
Example: Uptime 2 days 12:38:28
On 5 Ghz I have 0 traffic (as expected).
Why is there so much traffic on the 2.4Ghz radio when no clients are connected?
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Dear @ASCII,
Do you have portal configured on the EAPs?
Do you check the log to confirm there is no clients connected within two days?
Could you please post the screenshot of traffic page?
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@Yannie No portal configured on the EAPs, logs checked, no client connected within the last couple of days.
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After I turned off 2.4 Ghz in my wireless network, it looks like this. I guess you can spot the configuration change.
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Hi,
the boradcast diagram not only shows the traffic from or to the clients. It also shows packets (ssid, beacon...) which are sent by oterh ap's in reach(for example ap's in the neighbourhood) and clients (that are connectet to other aps). And it shows traffic sent from the eap, for example the ssid and beacons.
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Hi Yannie,
yes, AFAIK channel utilization includes overall traffic even from other APs/clients. But what still puzzles me is that the 5 GHz radio has 0 bytes traffic (not utilization, but traffic sent/received from/by the EAP itself). I'm still testing whether the 5 GHz band at my location has really no traffic. I would have expected some traffic caused by sending the beacon at least, but it seems that management frames don't count as traffic (or there is a bug in the controller software).
Maybe @Fae can enlighten us why the traffic counters for the 2.4 GHz radio show traffic even if no client is connected, while the traffic counters for the 5 GHz radio does not show any traffic?
And while we're at it: this is the type of information I'm missing from TP-Link's Omada Controller User Guide: it would be very helpful to know the exact type of traffic shown as Utilization, Rx, Tx and so on.
In my opinion it's not enough to document in the User Guide what button will enable which function (this is pretty obvious, isn't it?). I would like to read more details about the side-effects a setting has, when to use it and when to avoid it.
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