Also note that the ap cannot serve clients in se-connect mode. It can only act as a spectrum analyzer. The 7.0 mr1 code version (7.0.116.0) can allow you to serve clients and connected with the spectrum expert client. If you want to run you ap in local mode while clean air is enabled, just make sure clean air is enabled on the radio option under wireless. When you disable the lower data rates, the aps can transmit at a faster bitrate which takes up less time and doesn't increase the duty cycle on that channel as much as a 1mb frame would. If you have alot of wlans enabled then you will have each radio beaconing multiple times(one per wlan). I practice if you take 16 wlans broadcasting on a couple radios in a conference room area you could see up to 40% duty cycle with no clients, just management overhead. So forcing the mandatory rates higher will keep the beacons and management frames at a faster rate, clearing the air sooner. Hope that helps. Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPa ... View more

How many aps are in that location? Sometimes high duty cycles are caused by excessive management traffic seen in the Air so disabling the lower data rates (1,2,5.5) will usually clear up some of this. Also make sure there isn't a lot of co-channel interference, is RRM properly configured? Are channels 1,6,11 properly configured? Sent from Cisco Technical Support iPad App ... View more