ePMP's tools to try to diagnose client side interference seem limited, unless I'm not understanding the magic?
eDetect only shows devices on the same channel width, so when we are operating in 10 Mhz wide 2.4Ghz channels, the client SM's say there are 'no interferers', even if the client's router is loud and proud and sitting right there blasting away. That doesn't allow us to help diagnose a problem.
Also of course, without the ability to run a timed Spectrum from the cleint's SM either, we really have our hands tied trying to predict or diagnose interference at a client's site.
Even if we are in the same channel widths (20 Mhz wide) and even if eDetect does then show us devices that it can hear - it doesn't tell us the channels those devices are on. It does it's own calculation to figure out if it's currently an interferer or not, but that doesn't tell us what channel it is on now. SO - if we are planning on changing channels, we won't know until after we change channels if that will help or hinder a clients. If we could look at the eDetect list and tell what channels the other potential interferers were on, then we could make an educated channel move, not a random move and not just detect after we change, and only then know if it was a good or bad idea.
I think this is the single biggest thing we find missing from ePMP currently. We feel like we are flying blindly when trying to find the best channel - no Spectrum from the client side, no ability to tell what else is online from the client side. :(
I know it's listed as ''under consideration'' in the Ideas - but maybe it needs a few more Kudos? :)
http://community.cambiumnetworks.com/t5/Your-Ideas/eDetect-ePMP/idi-p/51267