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      mcury @johnpoz
      last edited by

      @johnpoz Yes, but it's strange, he is getting twice speed as me..
      I'm stuck somehow at 300Mbps, he got 613.. I'll try another firmware to be sure about this..
      Unfortunately I can't test right now, otherwise my family would ban me from my house 😁

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by johnpoz

        What was the PHY his client was connected at? Going to be a big different if your at 866.7 and he was at 1300 (3 streams)... Which could be the case and could explain his 600 number.. Which seems pretty freaking high for a 867 PHY.. 70% real world bandwidth seems a bit unlikely.. But if at a 1300 phy, then 613 is more in the realistic area of the overhead for wifi.

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          mcury
          last edited by

          According to his post, he was using an Apple device, 866/866Mbps

          https://community.ui.com/releases/UAP-USW-Firmware-5-24-0-11950/74e3acca-9a22-4fa0-b76c-c654854638d4#comment/418023aa-13b2-43b0-b2b0-7fc94de12ad3

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by johnpoz

            Well I don't buy his numbers to be honest... 70% real world seems a bit optimistic to be sure ;)

            If you want a real world test - load up all your devices doing speed tests at the same exact time.. What is the combined throughput.. That is what is going to matter.. Doing what mobile devices do - the difference between even 300 and 550 is not going to really be noticed by the user.. Is your music going to stream slower ;) Maybe your movie buffers for .2 seconds longer before it starts ;)

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            • JKnottJ
              JKnott @johnpoz
              last edited by

              @johnpoz said in Seamless roaming:

              Huh? That is not how unifi works at all.

              I wasn't talking about Unifi. I was referring to systems that use controllers for log in and controlling access to the APs. I first heard of this 11-12 years ago, but I've forgotten the company name. They referred to it as "blanket" WiFi. With that system, you had to use their switch and not just plain PoE.

              PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
              i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
              UniFi AC-Lite access point

              I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                mcury
                last edited by

                Yes, you are completely right :)
                It's working flawless, roaming events happening, I can't really complain about it. :)

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                  Qinn
                  last edited by

                  Anyone any idea how I can get more info on the following failure: "WPA Authentication Timeout/Failure", which is under "Association Failures" in the dashboard. Tried finding it under "Events" nothing and there is no data at all under Alerts.

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                    mcury @Qinn
                    last edited by

                    @Qinn You can try a cat /var/log/messages inside the AP, just ssh to it.

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                      Qinn @mcury
                      last edited by

                      @mcury Good thinking, so did it and downloaded 4 files from

                      /var/log 
                      
                      fastapply
                      lastlog
                      messages
                      messages.old
                      

                      First 2 were empty in the last 2 the failure was not mentioned.

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                        mcury @Qinn
                        last edited by

                        @Qinn You would be getting something like this:

                        nanohd-BZ.v5.24.0# cat /var/log/messages | grep failure
                        Thu Jul 9 08:16:26 2020 user.info : stahtd[20294]: [STA-TRACKER].stahtd_dump_event(): {"auth_delta":"0","message_type":"STA_ASSOC_TRACKER","mac":"X:X:X:X:X:X","vap":"ra0","wpa_auth_failures":"1","event_type":"failure","assoc_status":"0","assoc_delta":"0","event_id":"2","auth_ts":"61017.241076"}

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                        • QinnQ
                          Qinn @mcury
                          last edited by Qinn

                          @mcury said in Seamless roaming:

                          cat /var/log/messages | grep failure

                          GRumpff 🙃 , did a

                          cat /var/log/messages | grep Failure
                          

                          instead of

                           cat /var/log/messages | grep failure
                          

                          Found it, thanks!!

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                            mcury
                            last edited by

                            Reverted the nanohd firmware back to the stable version, 4.3.20, and the 300Mbps limitation is no longer happening..
                            Just saying this for information purposes, not that the users will really notice that, but I'm getting now around 600.

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                              Qinn @mcury
                              last edited by

                              @mcury Thanks for the info

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                              • johnpozJ
                                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                last edited by

                                @mcury said in Seamless roaming:

                                but I'm getting now around 600

                                On a 866.7 PHY?

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                                  mcury @johnpoz
                                  last edited by

                                  @johnpoz Yeap.
                                  5GHz 80MHz, phone shows 866Mbps

                                  https://community.ui.com/releases/UAP-USW-Firmware-5-24-0-11950/74e3acca-9a22-4fa0-b76c-c654854638d4#comment/68e879e7-bdd4-4450-8ddd-0d3bfeed5fa4

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                                  • johnpozJ
                                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                    last edited by johnpoz

                                    Looks more like 516 mbps to me ;) Which is actually realistic.. At 60% of PHY.. not 70..

                                    5]   0.00-10.03  sec   618 MBytes   516 Mbits/sec
                                    

                                    Just tested off my phone to speedtest getting 437mbps down on 5.24 firmware on AC-Pro with iphone Xr.. Showing a 780 PHY.. Or 56% which is good..

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                                      mcury @johnpoz
                                      last edited by

                                      @johnpoz True.. 516Mbits/s :)
                                      I'll stay on this 4.20 firmware for a while, it's working pretty well.
                                      In my scenario, with just one AP, the roaming events are working, no need to update to 5.24 at this time.

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                                      • johnpozJ
                                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        Yeah I didn't really see anything in the firmware related to my devices - but I just like to be on whatever is the latest.. Helps me know if actually seeing what others say they see on the threads over on unifi when they post the latest updates..

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                                          mcury @johnpoz
                                          last edited by

                                          Yeah, the release notes for this 5.24 release got a lot for the new wifi 6 devices..
                                          I usually get the latest too.
                                          What I will try to do next time, in case that I can hold myself to not update ☺ Is to wait a little longer, to read the forum feedback. But I doubt that I'll be able to hold myself 😀

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                                          • QinnQ
                                            Qinn
                                            last edited by Qinn

                                            There is no cpu/board temperature measurement on the Unifi AP's?

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