HI everyone,
I have recently purchased 2 Peplink AP One AX access points which I intend to use with my Balance 310 5G and B One 5G routers.
I have been checking the manual and the datasheet, as well as this forum, but I haven`t found information about the typical coverage (h x v) and maximum distance that the acces point can cover. Can anyone help me?
Also, in open air, what would be the recommended separation between AP’s to minimize interference?
Really appreciate your help,
Ignacio
This thread here contains the information you are looking for with regards to the AP radiation patterns, the APs are also available for simulation in Ekahau and Hamina:
That would mostly depend on the TX power you configure and the environment.
Let’s say you set a “reasonable” TX power of ~10dBm on the 5GHz radio, in free space and assuming you mount the AP at ~2.5m in the proper orientation I would normally expect you would see “good” coverage out to about 25m, where we define “good” coverage as a target RSSI on the client device of around -65 and “acceptable coverage” out to around -70.
Noise and environmental considerations lowers these numbers.
AP One AX simulated in Hamina Planner:
Real world survey of an AP One AX Lite in 5GHz at 12dBm TX:
As for this:
If we assume you are doing the proper thing and putting the APs on separated channels I would suggest you probably want about 3m of physical separation between any two omnidirectional APs, this is generally a reasonable starting point regardless of the vendor or equipment but with enough RF separation you can bring things closer.
When I have APs mounted in close proximity to each other I try and aim for 100Mhz or better of RF separation between the APs channels in 5GHz (in 2.4GHz I tend to start to look at turning off specific radios).
In terms of channel reuse, again typically you would want to avoid reusing any channel where one AP can hear another on the same channel at a level ≥ -80dB, but in dense deployments that becomes much harder (and why we don’t use omni directional antennas in those sorts of deployments if we have more APs than usable channels, and why other vendors have a lot of tuning and nerd knobs available to adjust the receive sensitivity of the radio).
Thanks a lot, Will. This is priceless information.
I didn’t know Hamina. I am checking the tool, and seems exactly what I need.
Best,
Ignacio
