Airtime Fairness is a feature that shares the available bandwidth fairly between all of the active clients. Especially useful in high-density environments, it results in an improvement to WLAN performance. Airtime Fairness is activated by default.
- SNMP ID:
- 2.23.20.9.6
- Console path:
- Setup > Interfaces > WLAN > Performance
- Possible values:
- Round-Robin
- Each client in turn receives a time slot for transmission.
- Equal-Airtime
- All clients will receive the same airtime. Clients with a higher data throughput benefit from this setting because the access point can send more data to the client in the same amount of time. Note: IEEE 802.11ac WLAN modules already use an algorithm similar to this setting.
- Pref.-11n-Airtime
- This setting prefers clients that use IEEE 802.11n. Clients using IEEE 802.11a or IEEE 802.11g will only receive 25% of the airtime of an IEEE 802.11n client. Clients using IEEE 802.11b only receive 6.25% airtime. The result is that data is sent much faster to clients using IEEE 802.11n.
- Equal-Volume
- This setting distributes the airtime between the clients to ensure that all clients receive the same amount of throughput by the access point. However, slower clients will slow down all clients.Note: This setting is only recommended when it is necessary for all clients to receive the same throughput.
- Default:
- Equal-Airtime
