The session focused on Wi-Fi design using Hamina, with Ferney leading a hands-on demonstration of AP placement, 3D visualization, and reporting features. Participants discussed the use of MikroTik devices for labs and compared Hamina’s antenna visualization with other tools like Ekahau and Sidos. Jerry from Hamina joined to explain features like fast ray tracing, GPS coordinates, and AFC integration for 6 GHz planning. The group also covered Hamina’s live integration with Cisco Catalyst Center and ORB for real-time network analysis.
Chat Notes:
00:59:58 Hiten J. Thakkar: What exactly the speed test measure? My Wi-Fi is operating at 6E 40 MHz, the wire to the AP is 5 Gbps and switch port is 5 Gbps, uplink is 25 Gbps and the DS link to router is Fifty and to ISP 100Gps. The values of speediest is Laptop to AP correct?
01:00:22 Glenn De Haes: it does as they want both solutions to be as alike as possible. Think it is clear that AI/ML will be more powerful online than local install. So do expect that wall detection etc might work better online but in terms of look and feel and what you generally can do, it should become the same
01:01:13 Glenn De Haes: Speedtest tests to the Internet by sending a lot of data (500MB or so) and measure the peak bandwidth
01:01:27 alex wirz: no. laptop to the cloud if your ap is 40mhz and you re connected on a 10mb link you won t get all of it
01:01:28 Glenn De Haes: laptop to AP requires for instance iperf on the AP like with Arista
01:01:46 alex wirz: also, it will measure from laptop. so you need to check which frequency you re connected
01:02:35 Zaur Nedashkovskiy | Linear Technologies, inc.: Online speed tests like speedtest.net are mostly guessing your speed
01:04:07 Hiten J. Thakkar: 6E channel 197 (80 MHz) is the connection from laptop to the AP.
01:08:46 simon: if you are deploying this site with this design, will you use the channel design as static assignment or let the vendor rrm feature dynamically assign the channel?
01:10:26 Zaur Nedashkovskiy | Linear Technologies, inc.: Replying to “if you are deploying this site with this design, will you use the channel design as static assignment or let the vendor rrm feature dynamically assign the channel?
8/10 you will use RRM
01:10:34 Zaur Nedashkovskiy | Linear Technologies, inc.: Replying to “if you are deploying this site with this design, will you use the channel design as static assignment or let the vendor rrm feature dynamically assign the channel?”
02:07:49 alex wirz: cc screen where we have channel utilization.
that s an example of an interference. ap with 0 clients, but a huge 40min burst of 80% channel utilization
02:07:55 Larry: WLC to Catalyst Center traffic has a 5 minute delay