EAP215-Bridge Kit - Bridges drop at least once per day
Hi All - looking for some help with this new product. We current have 2 bridges setup in a business environment, one about 1400 ft long and the other about 50 ft long and both drop often! When they are not dropping, the speeds are near hardwired speeds. I really want these bridges to work well, but I can't get any good data as to why the bridges are dropping.
We are using the OC300 controller to manage the bridge kit and the logs don't tell much. Working with TP-Link hasn't produced any results. I think it the drops are caused by high channel utilization but I can't get any definitive answers as to why it is high. Some of the stats show high traffic right before the drop, which also kind of lines up with high channel utilization.
Where can I get definitive anwsers?
Thanks for the reply @d0ugmac1. The Mem and CPU were normal. I was thinking the same as well, overutilization. I've rate limit the switch port for each uplink/downlink to the bridges to 50mbps and just waiting to see if it'll drop today.
Im 100% thinking the same. We're in a very noisy RF area. Next to an small airport, industrial complex, also there is a wireless broadband provider in the middle of the complex. I was hoping OC-300 could provide detail level logs that would correlate noise/channel utilization right before drop. Also with the bridge kit being in mesh mode, the AI Optimation wont work since it'll disable scanning. Makes me wonder how the auto channel and channel width options for the radios would work if it can't scan in mesh mode. In the logs I never saw that the bridge kit switched to another channel based on utilization. It just stayed on the same channel througout the storm.
Is there a more industrialized version of these bridge kits? From speaking w/ support - these are the latest and greatest. I wonder if the Pharos hardware might work better.
