Hi, we have successfully deployed ant-2566 in a ceiling position within a warehouse up to 18 metres from ground level.   In this type of deployment we have always done a site survey with lift access equipment to physically check the coverage provided by this antenna before deploying it. I would not like to fit in this way without getting some real data from the environment before hand.   The thing to remember is that with the higher gain antenna you are not really increasing the coverage area as the client radios will be the limiting factor. That being said, antenna gain works both ways so if the radio TX is set accordingly you can benefit from the higher gain antennas from that perspective.      40ft is 12 metres, if this is max roof height can you not drop the antennas from the roof to the light height, warehouses rarely build racking all the way to the roof as they have to allow for lighting to be dropped.? We have also successfully used omni antenna under 12 metres, but you must survey it. ... View more

From as technical point of view you can do it. From a legal point however it breaches Cisco licensing unless you purchased the old APs with Cisco 1 licensing in which case they are transferrable. ... View more

Interesting, every Cisco conference I have been to seem pretty keen to say the new stuff is not converged access?   The embedded 9300 stuff is SD-Access only? Or is this something different you know of? ... View more

Do not use converged access anywhere if you can help it. We have a couple of large customers who invested heavily in it a few years ago. It has been nothing but trouble.   There is a reason Cisco are no longer pushing it and seem to be trying to sweep it under the carpet! ... View more

The 5520 comes with right to use licensing model. So when you buy your APs you have to buy an adder license, however, there is nothing to add to the WLC. If you go to software activation section of the WLC you accept the EULA and tell the WLC how many APs you have.   Regards ... View more

No, it doesn't work like that a channel is assigned at radio level. So on the 1602 you have 1 2.4Ghz radio and 1 5ghz radio.   So there will 1 channel on each one (ignoring other factors like bonding on 5Ghz anyway). ... View more

I appreciate this is a Cisco forum, but if you have any reasonable number of users you really would be better looking at none WiFi technology, especially over long distance.   Regards ... View more

The problem you will have is that most modern devices will actively scan for a network they can connect to, if there is a profile available on the device that already has credentials it will want to connect to it.   With the information you have given I do not think there is a solution available.    You could set the maximum client count on the AP's to a lower number but I would presume this will cause even more issues.    ... View more

It sounds like you have everything configured. Is there any DHCP snooping config present on the switching?   Quick solution to see what is happening, span the switchport with an AP on it during a client association. You should see DHCP traffic outside of the CAPWAP tunnel. This will verify instantly whether or not the DHCP traffic is happening locally on the switchport.     ... View more

Hi, on the SSID which you have set to flexconnect local switching you will have assigned an interface. If you go to the interfaces tab, under DHCP proxy mode what is that set to? I would set it to disable for my flexconnect SSIDs as normal practice.   If this is a live enviroment and that interface is used on any local mode SSID's you will need to be careful not to prevent other users being affected.   Regards ... View more

These messages can become really tiresome if you have a lot of AP's on a switch in something like a distribution centre or really mobile office and you are using flexconnect. I have found in the past that you can disable them to stop them spamming syslog or such like:   logging discriminator nolog msg-body drops flapping logging buffered discriminator nolog logging console discriminator nolog logging monitor discriminator nolog ... View more