Cisco 3602i (autonomous mode)

[Ant2110]

Hello, 

I have had 3 of these APs (AIR-CAP3602I-E-K9) running for several years now and no issues. 
I have recently upgraded my broadband (1gpbs) and was hoping for faster speeds through the APs. 

I only get about 50mbps using 5GHz. 
I guess I need to upgrade to get 500+mbps.

Can someone tell me what the maximum data rate possible with the 3602i please? 
If it's more than 50mbps then I must have some settings wrong. 


Cheers, 
Ant.

[pieterh]

Cisco Aironet 3600 Series Access Point Data Sheet

20MHz channel: 195 (Mbps)
40MHz channel: 405 (Mbps)

did you enable AC rates ?
Cisco Aironet 3600 Series - Configuration Guides - Cisco
section:  Enabling 11ac MCS rates

[Ant2110]

It is currently set to:
802.11N (2,4Ghz) Mcs Index 23
802.11N (5Ghz) Mcs Index 23

I cannot see in the AP settings where to change this. Do you know if the 3602i is capable of 802.11ac?
My system software is: 15.3(3)JF9 

[Ant2110]

Looks like ac is by using a module add on...

IEEE 802.11ac Wave 1 module (Available Q2CY13)

● Supports 3x3:3SS (spatial streams), 80-MHz wide channels, 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), and data rates up to 1.3 Gbps (as part of IEEE 802.11ac Wave 1)

[Rasika Nayanajith]

It is not worth of adding ac module to 3602. My advice is at least see if you can upgrade to 3702I (which can run on autonomous code).

Regarding the data rates you can go up to 450Mbps with 3602I AP, but that does not mean you get throughput of 450 Mbps when you do data transfer (upload/download). You will mostly get ~ 40-60% of data rate as throughput (around 180-270 Mbps) when you have a single client on the cell. If you have more clients on your AP 50-100 Mbps looks normal to me.

With a 3702 you can go up to 1.3Gbps data rate which you can expcet 500-600 Mbps throughput when good RF and no contention (single client in the cell). With many clients in the cell, individual client throughput is much lower .

HTH
Rasika
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[Rich R]

And remember to refer to https://mcsindex.net/ to understand the theoretical max data rates.
As Rasika says - actual IP throughout will always be much less than the raw data rate, and remember it's radio so it's a shared medium.

[Ant2110]

Yes. With only a single connection I am getting just over 50mbps which is expected for 802.11n.
I am going to test with the 802.11ac add on module to see if I can get it working in autonomous mode, but by the sound of it it's not going to work. I can get some smaller (non-Cisco) WiFi6 APs for not much money, so if the ad on modules do not work, I will probably retire the Ciscos and go with the new ones.