WAP321 setup - HELP - HELP

[Minh Vu]

Hello All,

Our company located on 2 floor of a bussiness buiding.  I just bought 6 devices of Cisco WAP321 and would like to setup a wireless so users can move from 1 floor to the other floor with wireless still connect and the speed is at the fastest as it can.

What is the best practice to setup for above condition?

Note:    I have plenty of network ports available on both floor that can connect to the WAP.        

[Tom Watts · Accepted solution]

Hi Minh, you may use up to 8 access points in a cluster. This would be the best scenario.

Check the admin guide about clustering

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/access_point/csbap/wap121/administration/guide/WAP121_321_AG_en.pdf

-Tom
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[Minh Vu]

I do not see the Single Point Setup menu on the device setting, please let me know on how to enable the SPS menu.

All I see is this:

[Tom Watts]

The AP must be on the most current firmware.

-Tom
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[Minh Vu]

Hello Tom,

Thanks for your quick reply.

The firmware I had now is 1.0.1.10.

I'm going to download now and will perform an upgrade.

If I setup as SPS, how is the speed?

[Tom Watts]

Hi Minh, no, 1.0.2.3 is.

http://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=284152656&catid=278875243&softwareid=282463166&release=1.0.2.3&relind=AVAILABLE&rellifecycle=&reltype=latest

-Tom
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[Minh Vu]

Hello Tom,

Do you have any detail instruction on how to setup SPS with multiple WAP?

I do not under stand the manual instruction, sorry, i'm little dump on it.

[Clayton Sill]

Hello Minh,

     I don't know of any detail instructions for SPS but the admin guide is going to be your best bet to help you set this up. You'll first need to enable single point setup. As long as the cluster name is the same on all of the WAP321 you are trying to set up they will join the cluster. The location name you can define will help you find out which location a certain AP is at, ex: Floor 1 or Floor 2. That should at least get them clustered at this point.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,

Clayton Sill

[Minh Vu]

Tom, Clayton,

Thank you very much to pointing out this SPS cluster features,  the wireless signal and performance is much much better with this setup.

Just one to give other user a heads up, after you have configure the SPS, then you need to enable the readio under wireless\radio in order for the signal to broascast. (does not mention on the manual :-( )

Thank you all

[Clayton Sill]

Hey Minh,

     Glad we were able to help you out! That is strange though, I thought the wireless radio was enabled by default.. but I haven't played around with the new code at all so must have been a change in the newer firmware.

Thanks

Clayton Sill