May sound like a dumb question. But.... Didn't the Wireless Link test used to always produce the bandwidth capability SM to AP no matter what the traffic load was? IE used to be, all things considered, could check that customer is getting 10x2 or whatever profile you have set via link test in radio. Seems recently we notice if the customer say starts streaming, now you get 6x2 on same wireless linktest, instead of the 10.
Now, before I get the typical answer of 'hey there dumb dumb that's because they are using bandwidth'. Keep in mind I understand completely this concept HOWEVER, the wireless test shouldn't have been effected by this? Correct? Incorrect? It def. has changed since the early epmp days.
I tried to keep it simple but more or less shouldn't the Wireless Link Test be testing the over the air capacity, not the true TCP traffic capacity? And if so, why are the two being married now?
Did they change the link test to TCP ? When did that happen ? If they did, though I know it's been a common request, I agree, it's not what the link test is for.
Do you possibly mean the test should (1) ignore the LAN port during the test so that user data doesn't affect the results ? I to would like that but I don't remember it ever being different on ePMP (was like this on Canopy and I believe our 900Mhz 450i does this). However Canopy and maybe the 450 also shut down all the customers on the AP during a Link test, not just the one on the radio you are testing so.. yeah not something you run just whenever you feel like it and not something you run more than 4 secs (else you kill VOIP and other real time connections)
It also needs to ignore QOS setting IMHO. I want to know the capacity of the link without having to change the QOS and save the settings (and thus risk forgetting to set them back) and wait for the settings to take then change them back when done. However a real test would, like the old Canopy gear, require that the AP ignore all the other radios as to give a true result on what that one radio can do. I would rather it not shut down all the other radios even if it means I don't get 100% accurate result (actually I would like to be able to do both so I could compare the results and know exactly how the load was affecting the AP also)
I don't remember ePMP ever doing that either though.
@brubble1 wrote: It also needs to ignore QOS setting IMHO. I want to know the capacity of the link without having to change the QOS and save the settings (and thus risk forgetting to set them back) and wait for the settings to take then change them back when done.
Yes, I agree. There should be an option to test showing the over the air un-throttled link capacity, not just up to the QOS setting. I don't necessarily want it to shut down all other SM's (although maybe that'd be OK as an option) but at the least, we should be able to check a radio button and be able to bypass QOS for this test. Right now, our only recourse is a whole bunch of disruptive cumbersome steps that you mentioned.