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Thanks for all the answers everyone.

I'll give the ferrite cores a go and see if that helps. I also thought about
contacting the ARRL, but since it's a Part 15 device that I'm having trouble
with I figured they wouldn't have much to offer.

Here's some more detail on what we're seeing, maybe it will help:

From the users' perspective, the wireless is very very slow. On our wired
network files copy between computers at between 10 and 20MB per second; on the
wireless getting 500k/sec is pretty good. They also experience high latency
(ping times over 3 seconds (not ms) have been seen) with occasional high packet
loss (as high as 75%).

On the access point side, the controller reports that the individual access
points are properly spaced out channel-wise, but report high "PHY errors" which
our support person tells me means the channel was busy when the access point
went to transmit. They report these errors even with no clients connected.

Our support people tell me that "we're in a noisy environment" and offer no
further suggestions to track down the source. When we installed this system two
years ago we didn't have this problem, so something must have changed.

Thanks again for anything you can offer.

~Ryan W7BEC




Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:34 pm

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Hi, Not actually a ham radio question, but you guys might still know the answer. At the school I work at we're having interference issues with our wireless,...
w7bec Offline Send Email Nov 10, 2011
1:34 am

Ryan, Check with Dave W7AGJ. He knows something about running down sources of RFI. Also I believe that ARRL has official people in the Section who are ...
Tom Singleton
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Nov 10, 2011
1:43 am

Ryan; I would try torrid coils. Wrap your power supply lead around and through a coil and see if that helps. I know they strip RF interference into a stereo ...
Daniel F Morris
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Nov 10, 2011
4:50 am

If it's simple induced RFI, then just using some simple snap-on ferrite cores on the leads that are picking up the RFI. I think you can still get them from...
Tom Singleton
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Nov 10, 2011
5:11 am

Tom: FYI About 12 years back, we had a valley box shop build a PC. It functioned well, but we noticed radio noise within a block or so while driving away...
Wesley Price
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Nov 10, 2011
5:26 pm

Good comments, Wes! Hopefully that will help Ryan with the situation. Tom K8TOM...
Tom Singleton
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Nov 10, 2011
7:27 pm

Thanks for all the answers everyone. I'll give the ferrite cores a go and see if that helps. I also thought about contacting the ARRL, but since it's a Part 15...
w7bec Offline Send Email Nov 11, 2011
3:34 pm
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