Cisco Wireless :: 2504 Controller / 1602E - External Or Integrated Antenna For Better Coverage
Mar 24, 2013
I'm planning to use these with a 2504 controller. However, I cannot find a straight answer on whether or not the External Antennas provide better coverage than the Integrated Antennas? These will be wall mounted in a combo office/warehouse environment. Also, I cannot figure out if the External Antennas are even included with the 1602E (AIR-CAP1602E-A-K9)? or what if any power adapter/ injector is included with the AP's?
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Jan 23, 2013
Is it possible to use only 1 external antenna (AIR-ANT2524DB-R) with 1602E Access Point?
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Mar 19, 2013
I have a few 1142N Aironets with internal antennas in place, and I am not thrilled by its coverage. I want to extend my wireless network because of a new building which led me to the following question;Is there is any difference in wireless coverage when using external dipole antenna’s (the small ones, for example the AIR-ANT2524 for a new 2600 Aironet) versus the internal (dipole) antenna’s. I am aware you have more options when using external antenna’s, such as omni, directional, outdoor etc.
For an indoor office or warehouse deployment, where temperature is not a concern, why would I buy for example the 2600E with 4 dipole antenna’s over the 2600i?I have read most Aironet datasheets and their antenna options, but can’t find a word about the advantages of external dipole antennas. I would expect external antennas would give better coverage.. is this true?
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Apr 28, 2013
We are deploying Aironet1602e AP's with the Aironet dual-band dipole antennas (air-ant-2524dw-r) into a warehouse location with very low ceiling clearance. To avoid head bumps and broken antennas, we are considering leaving the antennas in the folded position. How much detrimental effect will this have on the signal strength and pattern?
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Nov 9, 2012
I have an integrated 881W with a built in 801 access point. I'm interested in increasing the range of my AP. I'm interested in considering any configuration changes while still maintaining support for N. I've included a copy of my running config.As well, I've heard of high gain antennas. I'm using the default antennas that came with the 881W. If there are better antennas that I can buy to increase my range, I'm interested in considering that as well.
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Feb 14, 2013
I have a question about external antennas on an access point. I have to plan a wireles solution, that also includes coverage in the industrial freezers. The freezers are one part of the sotck rooms, so the general coverage will be done with 1602I access points.
Since there are quite a lot of freezers in one location, installing separate AP in every freezer will be very expensive. I wondered if there is a possibility to put one 1602 access point with external antennas outside the freezer and then extend the antennas with 2m cables inside different freezers (1602E has three external antennas, so one antenna to each freezer).
Would this installation even work?
The freezers are quite small rooms maybe 2-3m2 sow the coverage is not a problem. But does this installation support multiple clients per AP in different freezers doing stocktaking with handheld terminals?
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Oct 13, 2012
I recently got a Dell Latitude D600. I know, it's outdated. I'm running Windows XP SP3.
My problem is that after installing all of the drivers for the Broadcom 570x Gigabit Intergrated Controller, I can't get the wireless to pop up in the bottom right hand corner. I can only connect with an Ethernet cable directly from my router. I have tried many things, even support packages, but I can't seem to get it to work. I've also tried Fn+F2. Also, in the Device Manager I see a "Network Controller" but it has a question mark that is yellow beside it, and I can't seem to install it.
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Dec 23, 2012
We'd like to work with Motorola MC3190 a/b/g handheld scanners in our warehouse so we need WiFi connectivity there. The warehouse has concrete walls and is divided into two parts - loading bay 18m x 42m (59ft x 138ft) and main warehouse building 44m x 42m (144ft x 138ft). The loading bay is just a simple hangar with gates mostly open, temperature could be very low there, down to -20C, the right thing would be to install an external AP there but still I want to get along with the signal from the inside.
Some very basic site survey with the Cisco 1242AG ap shows that there is -70db signal at the loading bay from warehouse AP. What do you think about mounting the antenna at the loading bay and connect it to the AP inside the warehouse? The actual ceiling height is 8m (26ft) but the steel beams are 6m (20ft) from the floor and that will be the mounting height of the AP's. (I think it's rather high though). Storage racks are made of metal and are up to 7m (23ft) high. Stored materials are mostly different types of fiberglass cabling, polyethylene, steel cabling, steel wires, metal barrels.
The environment is very dynamic and it's rather hard to predict the actual RF situation so I'm trying to determine the worst case scenario. So I'd like to use 2504 wireless controller with five 3502e AP's with ANT-2422DW dipole antennas mounted at the ceiling beams in the warehouse at 6m height. My thought was to set scanners to work in b/g band (there will be several laptops there too). There is a little diagram attached below.Still think it's too high, and doubt about the antennas. Are there better choices for such a setup? Maybe with wall mounted antennas?
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Mar 2, 2012
I connected an external 12dBi omni-directional antenna for Networks 2.4 Ghz (TL-ANT2412D) with LMR-400 cable 5M but my antenna "emits" nothing, I have no signal. With the two supplied antennas with WAP200 I signal but does not cover any desired area.
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Sep 12, 2010
an external Antenna for a 881G? We're using AT&T.
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May 10, 2012
I'm looking for a router with an external antenna connection so I can attach an outside antenna to extend my wi-fi signal signal around my farm.Right now I have Hughes net internet service running to a Belkin 750 router, which is descent around the house, but has no connection for an external intenna.
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Jan 14, 2013
Feature AIR-CAB020LL-R AIR-CAB050LL-R AIR-CAB100ULL-R AIR-CAB150ULL-R Cable Length 20 ft (6 m)50 ft (15 m)100 ft (30 m)150 ft (46 m) Transmission Loss 1.3 dB3.4 dB4.4 dB6.6 dB for Cisco 1941W router with external antennas?
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Feb 4, 2013
I'm going to install a Cisco Aironet 1310g (ap mode) with external antenna in a warehouse (contain many metal surfaces), and I need to install this antennas on ceiling (distance from floor to ceiling is about 13 metres). I need to get at least 1Mbps performance. AP clients are Motorola MC9190-G mobile computers.
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May 16, 2013
What are the new external antenna options?
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Mar 19, 2012
I am setting and configure the Cisco AP 1240AG with 5GHz External Antenna extension. The whole product is called iWap. The problem now is that the wireless signal amplitude only can reach 3 bars instaed of ful 5 bars.
Few questions I have for this setup and configuration :
1. What is the default or original frequency of antenna of Cisco AP1240AG? Can a 5GHz antenna work with the AP 1240AG whereby it is run with 802.11a and 802.11g?
2. If 5GHz antenna can work with 802.11a or 802.11g, what is the setting or configuration needed to be done at the Cisco 1240AG? Or, no setting or configuration needed because it will automatically work by default?
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Jul 30, 2011
Is it possible to add an external antenna to this WRT160Nv3 router? Some spots are just on the one bar signal level that comes and goes.
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Jun 7, 2011
Is it possible to connect two WAP200E on bridge mode without external antennas if they are 200 mts. (219 yard) apart?
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Jun 5, 2013
I have an unusual request to support an access point with a single external antenna to cover a small physical area (elevator car!!). All Cisco's currently shipping APs have dual band antennas using MIMO for throughput in "normal" deployments. Will a deployment with a single antenna work?
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Apr 11, 2013
I am in the process of installing a new wireless network in our offices and I was wondering if I can add an extension to the cable that connects my AIR-ANT-1728 to my AIR-CAP-3502e AP to get better coverage in our offices?
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Mar 22, 2012
Travel in an RV and many campgrounds have poor WiFi setups. Looking for some type of external antenna I can put outside of trailer. I'm using a WMP600N adapter in a desktop PC running Win 7.
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Nov 25, 2012
I am wondering if the folowing is a valid configuration:
WLC2504
AP2600
I need 3 SSID/VLAN, 1 for corporate devices, 1 for coporate smartphones, 1 for guest.
Port 1 on the 2504 should be used for management and corporate devices and connect to the corp network. Port 2 is for smartphones/guest and will be connected to a Cisco ASA 5515 that is connected to a second ISP.
Corp devices should get IP from an Windows DHCP. Smartphones/guest should get IP from the WLC. Is this possilbe? I read this in a document "To use the WLC as a dhcp, you need to enable DHCP proxy as it is required." Some how I am imagining that this will mess with the Windows DHCP. Is it better to use the ASA as DHCP for smartphones/guest?
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Feb 16, 2013
I have integrated Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network Controller installed in my E6510.after installing updated driver from Intel and running hardware test it stopped working (displays "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" in driver details page).Also it says that device is 82577LC (it used to be 82577LM).
Intel hardware test displayed "EEPROM Failure" message. Looks like this test damaged network card firmware somehow.How do I restore/reset EEPROM of the network cad?i also tried deinstalling and reinstalling previous version of driver from Dell - no luck.
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Aug 2, 2012
I currently have a single 2504 Controller managing 50 AP's. I am adding a Second 2504 AP Controller with 15 Lic to manage an additional 10 AP's. My current 2504 has each port configured for my four subnets that and it is managing AP's in 4 buildings. Should I configure the new 2504 the same way so that it can see all four sites? All so if the main 2504 goes down can the second 2504 take over even thou we will be out of lic?
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Jun 16, 2013
upgrade on the wireless controller 2504 from 7.0 to 7.4 is direct upgrade.My customer faced problem by upgrading the software 7.0 to 7.4 directly and the image hang.how should proceed recover the image 7.4/
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Feb 12, 2013
How to add an external antenna? I'd like to mount a DCS-930L in a location (inside a metal housing) that would need the antenna to be a few inches away. Any internal layout information?
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Nov 11, 2012
We have a Cisco 2504 controller and approximately 35 AP's. Some of the AP's are located directly above each other (on another floor). When I run a basic annalyzer, it appears that there is some adjacent AP traffic, the controller has some of the close AP's with the same channel, so there is some RF interferance. The AP's currently are all setup for "G" and majority of the AP's are 1200 series, most of them are 1242's. Should and can the AP's be set with static channels so that there is no adjacent signals? If so where in the controller can that be done?
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Oct 16, 2012
This is a new setup and has not worked yet. I have multiple 3602 APs and one 2504 Controller. I thought initially I could plug-in an AP into one of two POE Ports on the 2504. During debug mode I see that it has low power, was suprised that the 2504 switch can't fully power the AP? Is this correct?Anyways I have another POE switch that I am using with ample power. The configuration for my wireless is that it will be completely segmented off of my internal network as this is for guest access. So DNS servers are external so I cannot create host entries for the AP to discover the controller. With that being said I believe that is just one way for the discovery process to happen. I have my controller management interface and DHCP scope on the controller on the same subnet plugged into the same POE switch. The AP does seem to get a DHCP address and I can ping the controller from the AP. I cannot get any further then that. I will not join the controller and the radios get disabled. I get messages such as "discovery response from MWAR is rejected. I will post a debug log of the AP and its bootup process. This is new equipment so I would assume the firmware is somewhat up-to-date and the 3602 AP is somewhat the latest model.
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Nov 29, 2012
Our current way of configuration for this is standalone ap's with multiple ssid's. The main network ssid's are on the 10.0.0.0 networks. The internet only ssid is on the 192.168.1.0 network. ( this is a wireless network only,no wired) They all get there dhcp address from a layer 3 switch. To prevent the wireless 192.168.1.0 intenet only network from getting to the 10.0.0.0 networks, we just put a simple source & destination deny acl on the in vlan interface of the 192.168.1.0 network on the layer 3 switch.Now that we are impementing a Cisco 2504 controller, the management and ap manger are both on the 10.0.0.0 network.( both on port 1 with dynamic ap manager enabled) I can setup as many ssid's on the 10.0.0.0 network and they all work fine. But when I setup the 192.168.1.0 internet only ssid it will not connect. I'm assuming that its because the 192.168.1.0 network or anyone trying to connect and use that network has to go through the controller located on the 10.0.0.0 network. I'm thinking that the acl on the vlan interafce is the problem.So, if I'm correct, what is the best way to setup a separate internet only network through the private networks?
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Jun 11, 2013
Does the 2504 Wireless Controller support cad or jpg drawings? I have not been able to find in any of the menus.
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Feb 28, 2013
I just completed setting up a AIR-CT2504-K9 controller with 9 APs with RADIUS on the private WLAN and an open guest WLAN; I want to enable netflow exports to a collector, but see no place in the GUI to do this and no obvious CLI commands.
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May 21, 2013
-WLC 2504
-AP1602
-SW 7.4.100.0
We have 22 x AP1602.5 of them show up in the WLC with Controller Association Latency of around 1 minute and 10 seconds.The other 17 all have latency around 10 seconds.
1. What are possibile causes for high value of association latency?
2. Could high-value association latency be an indication of badly working wifi for data traffic?
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May 19, 2013
I'm supporting a 2504 wireless controller with 3 aps in a health clinic. I'm interested in generating some useful information for the owners of the device such as radio utilization (It'd be really nice if there were some graphs). how I can generate these graphs without SNMP monitoring or something like Cisco Prime Infrastructure?
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Jan 6, 2013
I have a question to migrate a customer from a 2106 controller to a 2504 controller. Can I use the configuration file with both controllers having the same version?
Or is there another way not having to do it again manually? The old configuration is OK, only the hardware is end of sale.
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