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qwerty123
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  #2740448 7-Jul-2021 11:28
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+1 for multicast/broadcast traffic during business hours. Some videostreaming, whatever.




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  #2740564 7-Jul-2021 13:43
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I'm not very technical these days, so I will look into the multicast/broadcast stuff. 

 

Is this something the wireless surveyor should have picked up? 

 

When you say video streaming, do you mean watching videos on their laptops or something like a microsoft widi dongle (which we have MANY of)

 

Thing that most weird to me is that the problem goes away after a reboot and will be fine for a week+ then slowly start degrading.. Ive been onsite with no on else there, terrible performance.. reboot everything then good as gold again! 


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  #2741113 8-Jul-2021 13:00
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dt:

 

When you say video streaming, do you mean watching videos on their laptops or something like a microsoft widi dongle (which we have MANY of)

 

 

Ah Microsoft WiDi dongle. It can be a culprit of your high utilization if there are many of them in your network and many of them are used concurrently. WiDi uses WiFi Direct, essentially it works as a SoftAP. After negotiation with a client it brings a wireless network up and the client connects to it. Those rogue APs can result into channel congestion if there are many of them. 

 

Probably it would be cheaper switching from WiDi to Chromecast rather than from Meraki to another solution.




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  #2746320 18-Jul-2021 20:56
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dt:

I'm not very technical these days, so I will look into the multicast/broadcast stuff. 

 

Is this something the wireless surveyor should have picked up? 

 

When you say video streaming, do you mean watching videos on their laptops or something like a microsoft widi dongle (which we have MANY of)

 

Thing that most weird to me is that the problem goes away after a reboot and will be fine for a week+ then slowly start degrading.. Ive been onsite with no on else there, terrible performance.. reboot everything then good as gold again! 

 

 

Something that any client with Wireshark (etc) on might be able to give you some visibility of - when it goes to crap, see if you can see rogue traffic.

 

 

Importantly, something broadcast/multicast can be seen by any adapter on the same VLAN (broadcast domain). But spectrum stuff won't be seen at that level.

 

 

edit: stupid spelling error




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