Poor performance on Intel Access Points and Lan Cards

[constantine]

I Run a small Office Network ( 36 users) Until last August they were running on a 1Mbs BNC cabled network. I have split them into 3 groups of 12 each group assigned an access point. (3 in all on channels 1,6 and 11) all works however and desktop tools show each machine within the "excelant" range for signel strengeth and quality. however the performance is up to 7 times slower then for the 1mbs cable.

eg

to ping the server from cable. 1ms

to ping your assigned access point 5-17ms

application clicks which took a second now take 7 seconds

any thoughts?

[ua549]

You didn't say how the access points are connected to your servers. What you have appears to be is a large shared network. I would speculate that collisions are what's killing your throughput.

[constantine]

im afraid not.

each access point is has its own ID and is conected to a managed switch and set with there own vlan and collision domain. stats show absolutly no collisions on the access points. and none one the server NIC witch attaches to the switch (though the "faster" BNC Cable has quite a few collisions)

thanks for the try though.