09-06-2012 07:50 PM - edited 07-03-2021 10:37 PM
Hey Guys
I have just setup my new cisco 887 wireless embeded router. I'm finding clients have very poor wireless signal strength. All client machines support G only. Do i have a mistake in my config or do these routers have very poor wireless.
Any help appreciated.
Luke
dot11 ssid myssid
vlan 1
authentication open
authentication key-management wpa
guest-mode
wpa-psk ascii 7 mykey
!
dot11 network-map
!
!
username admin privilege 15 secret 5 mypass
!
!
bridge irb
!
!
interface Dot11Radio0
no ip address
no ip route-cache
!
encryption vlan 1 mode ciphers tkip
!
ssid lovellrs
!
antenna gain 0
speed basic-1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 6.0 9.0 12.0 18.0 24.0 36.0 48.0 54.0 m0. m1. m2. m3. m4. m5. m6. m7. m8. m9. m10. m11. m12. m13. m14. m15.
station-role root
!
interface Dot11Radio0.1
encapsulation dot1Q 1 native
no ip route-cache
bridge-group 1
bridge-group 1 subscriber-loop-control
bridge-group 1 block-unknown-source
no bridge-group 1 source-learning
no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding
bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
!
interface GigabitEthernet0
description the embedded AP GigabitEthernet 0 is an internal interface connecting AP with the host router
no ip address
no ip route-cache
!
interface GigabitEthernet0.1
encapsulation dot1Q 1 native
no ip route-cache
bridge-group 1
no bridge-group 1 source-learning
bridge-group 1 spanning-disabled
!
interface BVI1
ip address 192.168.100.254 255.255.255.0
no ip route-cache
!
ip default-gateway 10.0.60.1
ip http server
no ip http secure-server
ip http help-path http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/prodconfig/help/eag
bridge 1 route ip
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09-07-2012 11:39 PM
Hi Luke,
You made a site survey?
What is the distance between the poorly connected clients and the AP?
Try applying this command under the radio interface:
channel least-congested
This will choose best available channel to use. If the problem persists then you better check your RF noise and/or interference.
HTH
Amjad
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09-07-2012 11:39 PM
Hi Luke,
You made a site survey?
What is the distance between the poorly connected clients and the AP?
Try applying this command under the radio interface:
channel least-congested
This will choose best available channel to use. If the problem persists then you better check your RF noise and/or interference.
HTH
Amjad
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Don't. Just rate the useful answers,
that is more useful than "Thank you".
09-09-2012 06:04 PM
Thanks for the info, I will give this a try. I have not completed a survey but have no interfernece on the channel selected. The issue i have is this router replaced a standard linksys home grade router. I have had to reinstall the linksys as it provided better coverage with the exact same channel, encryption etc.
The distance is about 10 metres but through a few solid walls. The ap works fine when you are in the same room. But when in the distant room it connects at 54mb then drops back to 36mbps then seems to just start dropping packets while still reporting as being connected.
09-08-2012 06:25 AM
Luke,
I just replaced on of these. Our end user had this deployed in their home and they somewhat worked while in the same room as the router but once leaving the room their ping times (to the router) went from 30ms to 1500+ ms.
At that time I was also running Cisco spectrum expert and there didn't seem to be any interference I could see. However I am fairly new to all of this.
I ended up opening a TAC case and they shipped a replacement router. I put it in place with the exact same config and haven't had any issues since.
So if you find no wireless problems you could try replacing the router with a known working one if you have one.
Regards,
Aaron
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