![]() ![]() If someone was to place ten access points in a home setting to achieve better coverage they could actually experience less throughput if the access points were overlapping and therefore interfering with each other. ![]() While in a consumer's home a consumer can set their WiFi for greater throughput by combining channels that only works because there are not many access points in a typical home. This is representative of pretty healthy WiFi in a large scale deployment. This applies even in the latest WiFi standards and it will apply in future WiFi standards.Ĭonsider Oasis that uses 20 MHz channels. When you need to add more access points in large scale deployments you need to use lower throughput rates to ensure the access points don't interfere with each other. ![]() To achieve greater throughput requires combining multiple channels such as 40 MHz channels, 80 MHz channels or in the case of very high throughput in the 5Ghz band, 160 MHz channels. When you desire to install more access points for better coverage you need to ensure nearby access points are not using overlapping frequencies or else they will interfere with each other. However in all cases to achieve higher throughput requires consuming more channels or RF spectrum which is a problem when you need more access points to provide better coverage in challenging environments like all metal ships. ![]() Wifi5 has been in use for years and the later versions can achieve gigabit rates. There is little benefit to Wifi6 or Wifi6E on a ship. You can throw greater bandwidth at poor infrastructure / IT practices all you want but that's only part of the equation. How often do they reboot the network components (not sure what their logs or other monitors are showing re: issues)?Īre they current with firmware upgrades (don't need to be at the most recent but fairly current)? Routers, switches, and APs may be due for replacement (EOL?). They could probably benefit from additional access points (in the staterooms). They probably haven't upgraded to wifi 5 and wifi 6 capable access points for all of the ships. ![]()
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