Ruckus R510 experience

[Bubbagump210]

I have a pair of R510s and they seem okish - 5ghz is abysmal and roaming is meh. Any experience with these APs? How much screwing around with radio settings and site surveys were necessary? I was really hoping these would be more automatic set and forget and they are feeling much more like my enterprise life of constant site surveys, tuning, etc.

Edit: I should clarify, 5ghz is fine if you are right on top of the AP, but range seems poor - and yes, I know 5ghz doesn’t penetrate like 2.4ghz, but it seems unusually poor. It should survive 20 feet.

 

[coxhaus]

How do you have it mounted? 20 feet of open air should not be a problem.

 

[Trip]

Not that this makes me an expect, but I've done about 15 deployments with Ruckus, mostly on the smaller side (<30 APs each, ~10 Unleashed, ~5 ZoneDirector). I find it is largely set-and-forget and R510's should function fine in a medium-density, medium-range role.

I presume they're located such that overlapping dB is -60 to -75? Have you tried altering roam factor to compensate for any sticky clients? Also, mesh just works for me if/when needed. Not a lot to adjust there, unless you're running a ZoneDirector and you can manually tweak AP-to-AP selectivity.

Since you do enterprise wifi for a living, you certainly don't need to be told by anyone here how to do your job, but perhaps more radio locations at lower power would be a better fit for your environment? You can manually adjust down the transmit power, then perhaps throw an R310 into the mix and triangulate your broadcast blanket.

 

[Bubbagump210]

I have configured smart roam, and it is okish. It is set to I think 3 As any higher and I was seeing clients get kicked off at inappropriate times.

Overlapping db is indeed in that range. See my site survey here. The star is where the overlap values on the left are from. The circle is also my overlap point. Also note, where the software deduced the APs are is off a tad. On the Ruckus forum someone said why bother with mesh if I am running wired to the APs - I assumed that simply made the backhaul more stable and mesh in general was beneficial. Curious to your thoughts. And yes, 802.11r is enabled per someone else's suggestion (doesn't make sense to me as I am not using WPA-Enterprise features...) ... so I dunno.

 

[Klueless]

I stumbled onto Ruckus by accident, a most fortuitous accident as it's been running quite well for us. So, self-servingly, I've been kind of waiting for the exciting conclusion?

Ruckus forum someone said why bother with mesh if I am running wired to the APs - I assumed that simply made the backhaul more stable and mesh in general was beneficial

I'm intrigued with that comment.

In any case I've heard the Ruckus support line is quite good?