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Has anyone had any issues with the Aruba radios not turning on? I just received mine, connected it to power and ethernet, but canât get the âsetmeupâ network to show nor is the radio indicator light lit.
The Aruba APs take a long time to power on, wait maybe 15 min and see if it shows?
Yes, it takes a while. However, I find that if you plug it into your network and it gets an IP address, you can use the IP address to get to it and speedup the processâŚ
Thatâs how Iâve done it. Iâve never got that Setmeup thing to work. I may be doing something wrong. I downloaded their app but it apparently doesnât detect these models.
I am still trying to understand the Aruba IAP-207. I have two devices in a room next to the IAP-207, Dell Latitude E5440 and Iphone 8 plus. Both devices are wireless ac. The dell shows a signal strength of 33, while the iphone 8 plus shows a strength of 16. Mine you, they are in the same room right next to the AP about 8 feet away. The AP shows both devices are connected using channel 116E. Can anybody with any experience with these IAP share some light? I am coming from an Asus RT-AC68U consumer grade product and the signal strength and speed are far superior than these IAPâs. Again, I am not bashing the product. I am here to learn what I am doing wrong. Any help is appreciatedâŚ
Here is the finished, mounted access point.
The ethernet cables are a bit tight. I may look in to some cables with 90 degree connectors in the future but the current cables are working well for now.
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@Alastair_Grant You did a very good job man⌠What tools did you use to run the cables through the walls and the ceilings? How many floors is your home? My home is 2 floors and a basement. Essentially 3 floors. Let me know how the signal, speed, and any other configuration issues. Thanks muchâŚ
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My house is a back-split but effectively a 3-story house.
It was a new build when I purchased ~5 years ago and fortunately had a piece of conduit running from the basement to the attic. I ran 4 Cat5e cables up to the attic a few weeks ago and finished running the cables to the end-points this weekend when my brother-in-law was visiting. It was significantly faster with two sets of hands doing the work.
I was previously using 2 ASUS RT-AC66U routers running Tomato. I had them positioned as well as I could given the structured cabling in my house but overall was struggling in a few spaces around the house where the signal had to penetrate 2 walls.
I now have 2 Aruba APs on the top floor ceiling shooting down and a third covering the basement/sunken room. Overall I cannot complain with the performance. It seems like the dashboard reported speeds are not what Iâd expect but real-world performance has not been a problem. The ease of a single setup being pushed to all APs is a real benefit as well.
I also want to get in to some more detailed configuration with a separate wireless network/VLAN for my IoT devices so more to come on that front.
In for two. + an HP 290 + aruba 2500 poe 24 port + 12tb wd drive. Now I guess I have to do some work.
I am getting rid of my 3 Aruba IAP-207. They may be the perfect solution for some on here but the performance on these never measured up to my Asus RT-AC68U. I am not saying these are bad. They are just not for me.
What sort of issues did you experience?
I had quite a few but the most common culprits were Signal strength, internet speed, as well as the AP identifying some ac clients a n clients. In one example, I had two devices in a room next to the IAP-207, Dell Latitude E5440 and Iphone 8 plus. Both devices are wireless ac. The dell shows a signal strength of 33, while the iphone 8 plus shows a strength of 16. Mine you, they are in the same room right next to the AP about 8 feet away. Another Example, my ISP speed is 200 Mbps down. I have no issues attaining that speed on my Asus RT-AC68U. On the Aruba, the best I can get was 140 Mbps. I even tweak the Aruba to mirror the exact settings of the Asus. No luck. When I connected through VPN, I was only able to attain 100 Mbps. That is 50% of my actual ISP speed. When I google my issues, I found quite a few people with the same issues. Most point the issues to this model and suggest going to IAP-315 and up. Again, I am not bashing the product as we are all here to learn. I am just voicing my experiences with the Aruba IAP-207.
Youâre welcome to voice your opinions, Iâm not going to remove your post or anything. I was just curious.
Did you:
- Change the channel config of the APs
- Change or lower the transmit power of the APs
You should have no issue achieving 200 Mbps with these APs.
Yes, I spent weeks browsing the internet and implementing many fixes. I changed the channel config to match my Asus. I changed the channel config to match some suggestions from the web. From the Aruba website, they recommend changing the transmit power to 3 to 15 instead of Max. I did that and still did not work. Believe me, I was looking for a budget friendly solution. I would spend hours researching and could not get the performance from the units. I have moved on to another enterprise brand AP, and those work flawlessly.
Well, part of the problem is that you can overload a channel by using a single band with 3 APs, where your ASUS was a single AP using a single channel. With multiple APs, itâs best to have them on different channels.
This is kind of a basic article, but it should give you a little more information.
Iâm also curious, did you happen to test only a single AP instead of all 3? Did you disable the wireless entirely on your ASUS as well?
I actually tested them 1 at a time. I was thinking the same thing you are thinking. I never had them all up at the same time because I wanted to get the first one going first. At first, I thought maybe I had a defective product. I always take down the Asus anytime I was working on them because I wanted a true representation of my issues.
Weâd be happy to help at least troubleshoot this issue, itâd be useful to others here as well. If you want, make a thread over in #technology:tech-support and we can try some various solutions.
If itâs too much hassle, thatâs no problem too.
Ok, I will try to create later today or tomorrowâŚ
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Just an FYI, these are considered HP Enterprise products and are under support until Feb 2025. I had to get one RMAâd as it wouldnât stay connected to the network. I had setup the first unit solo, configured all the wireless networks, set it as the master, then connected a second unit to the network. It was a frustrating 2 week nightmare thinking I was doing something wrong. The second unit would sorta connect to the master, then flip between access and monitor mode, but wireless devices that connected to it wouldnât pull an IP, then the unit would disappear out of the controller and reboot randomly. Tried literally dozens of factory resets.
Finally had some time to actually troubleshoot from the switch side, setup a mirror port on the switch and connected my laptop to sniff packets. Everything looked fine, saw a ton of Aruba IAP packets, and a bunch of DHCP packets over and over and over again, which was odd. Checked the DHCP scope on the firewall⌠no lease. It wasnât pulling an IP. Other devices on that network had no issues pulling an IP. Checked the switchport and saw 70-90% CRC Errors. Called Aruba Support and 4 days later, new unit showed up at my front door. Plugged it into the same switchport that the defective one was connected to an 15 minutes later itâs online, showing in the controller, and no issues at all.
Now, does anyone have a nice Grafana Dashboard they would like to share 
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