Hello everyone. I have a mixture of R710 and R730 APs in my environment and honestly just added the R730 APs as we had such good luck with the R710.
Anyway I added the R730 APs in the areas with the most user traffic, however all my clients seem to be preferring the neighboring R710 APs
I'm also noticing on my R730 that I am getting a very high Drop and Retry Percentage:
Radio 802.11b/g/n/ax 802.11a/n/ac/ax
% Retries/% Drops 19.6/0.260 15.5/19.0
PHY Errors 462 112
The Drops and Retries on my R710 APs are in the .00008% compared to these.
They are all controlled by a ZoneDirector 1200 and I'm wondering if I have some settings wrong somewhere or something might be wrong with my setup. Thanks so much! If there is any more info I can get to help solve this, I'm happy to provide! Thanks!
Anyway I added the R730 APs in the areas with the most user traffic, however all my clients seem to be preferring the neighboring R710 APs
I'm also noticing on my R730 that I am getting a very high Drop and Retry Percentage:
Radio 802.11b/g/n/ax 802.11a/n/ac/ax
% Retries/% Drops 19.6/0.260 15.5/19.0
PHY Errors 462 112
The Drops and Retries on my R710 APs are in the .00008% compared to these.
They are all controlled by a ZoneDirector 1200 and I'm wondering if I have some settings wrong somewhere or something might be wrong with my setup. Thanks so much! If there is any more info I can get to help solve this, I'm happy to provide! Thanks!
Posted 6 months ago
I had a similar experience as your description using only PoE+, low throughput, high discos, user complaints.
I moved my lab R730 to PoH and noticed a substantial increase in performance. I have plans to roll out in the next two weeks and will reply with my results.
I moved my lab R730 to PoH and noticed a substantial increase in performance. I have plans to roll out in the next two weeks and will reply with my results.
How does one move to PoH? We've got only 5 of the R730s in one site so can't justify the ICX switches. Is there an easy way to support these under PoH without a huge capital investment? We have POE+ switch but we suspect the 730s need still more power...
Jon Maiman, Employee
For the R730 to run at full capacity with all spatial streams you need 31.0 watts (e.g. more than POE+ which is a maximum of 30 Watts).
If you're using Ruckus ICX switches, you may be able to use the POE overdrive feature which will do upto 45 watts on a standard POE+ (802.3at) port. This is a Ruckus proprietary feature and only works with Ruckus AP's and Ruckus Switches. Specifically POE overdrive is supported on ICX7650-48P, ICX7650-48ZP, and ICX7150-48ZP.
If you're using Ruckus ICX switches, you may be able to use the POE overdrive feature which will do upto 45 watts on a standard POE+ (802.3at) port. This is a Ruckus proprietary feature and only works with Ruckus AP's and Ruckus Switches. Specifically POE overdrive is supported on ICX7650-48P, ICX7650-48ZP, and ICX7150-48ZP.
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John D, AlphaDog
Is it confirmed that the R730 only uses around 31W (or 34W as quoted in one of the data sheets)?
There tends to be multiple places that quote power numbers for APs (data sheet, release notes for SmartZone / ZD, I believe Unleashed has an appendix with a different looking chart with blue background).
At any rate, the reason I ask is that a popular low cost PoE switch vendor's "802.3at" switches actually are rated for 35W per port, which sounds like it would be enough to use at+ with. I've casually tried it out and not seen any overcurrent faults or anything like that even under heavy load.
There tends to be multiple places that quote power numbers for APs (data sheet, release notes for SmartZone / ZD, I believe Unleashed has an appendix with a different looking chart with blue background).
At any rate, the reason I ask is that a popular low cost PoE switch vendor's "802.3at" switches actually are rated for 35W per port, which sounds like it would be enough to use at+ with. I've casually tried it out and not seen any overcurrent faults or anything like that even under heavy load.
John D, AlphaDog
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