This one has been nagging me for a long time but its finally reached a critical point.
Firmware 3.5.4 gives up to 305mbps on Laptops, phones and Tablets on all APs (Mini, Enterprise Rugged).
As soon as I upgrade it to 3.6.0 i loose 120-140 mbits of speed, the most i’ve gotten on this new firmware is 156mb and that’s standing on the exact perfect radio sweetspot with no one else besides me on the whole install
The problem is if i drop the fw down to 3.5.4 i get many customer complaints of devices unable to connect (mainly apple ones).
Im not sure what can be done about this but any help would be appreciated. im posting the speedtest links so you can see for yourself.
246mbits per second speeds where achieved on a Samsung galaxy S9 and iPhone 8 phones, laptops got all the way up to 305.
I know it may sound dumb to care about this but customers that do not understand networks only understand speedtests, higher number = better, Cisco/Meraki/Aruba could not match anything higher than 150, this 45% speed increase was a huge sellpoint on our company.
I hope something can be done about it, i just wanted to let you guys know this is a thing and its happening.
Ah Thank you! i never saw that firmware on the official firmware downloads, ill get right away! im so glad you guys saw and fixed this problem, as i said this was a super major sellpoint for peplink products vs Cisco/Meraki/Aruba/Ruckus and i was genuinely sad we had lost that marketing tool, we all know peplink APs are the best but it was really hard to convince customers, seeing nearly double speedtest speed coupled with peplink’s defacto never-fails-once-setup reliability was usually all it took to make the sale.
Thanks again!, ill get back to the office tomorrow, give it a go and let you know what i see on my tests
yes, 5ghz is a must, ill run tests on the main bands, find the best, least used one, and run the tests there, on 3.5.4, 3.6.0s16 and 3.6.0s18, repeat the test 5 times on 3 machines and 2 phones all within 3m in LOS of the Enterprise AP we have here.
Ill let u know what comes up.
Also speedtests using the wired lan give 600-700mbps up and down and use all available connections, weve noticed wifi only uses 70% of one link but only 5 or 10% of 1 or 2 more links, and most of times we do not get either full upload or full download on wifi, its a situation i wanted to ask you guys that doesn’t seem correct, it only happens on wifi.
Ill let you know what i get tomorrow as far as results.