Bandwidth

The Wireless Bandwidth report displays wireless elements (Client Groups, Clients, SSIDs, or APs) with the highest bandwidth discovered by your network during the selected reporting interval. Report data is grouped by Traffic In and Traffic Out. Use the navigation tree at the left side of the page to select specific groups or wireless infrastructure devices from which to display data. Bandwidth data for five, ten, fifteen or twenty devices can be displayed in both tabular and graphical format. You can define a range to only display devices polled during a specific time period using the date button.

When you view the bandwidth report in tabular format, the following information is displayed:

Client Group/Client/SSID/AP. Displays the group name, client name, SSID type, or access point depending on how the table is viewed. Select from the View by list at the top of the dashboard report to graph bandwidth data by Client Group, Client, SSID, or AP.
Min. Displays the minimum speed of data traffic during the selected time interval in bits per second. Min. is only displayed when the Bandwidth Report is viewed in tabular format.
Max. Displays the maximum speed of data traffic during the selected time interval in bits per second. Max. is only displayed when the Bandwidth Report is viewed in tabular format.
Average Bytes Received/Sent. Displays the amount of data received (under Traffic In) or sent (under Traffic Out) during the selected time interval in bits per second. When selecting View by Client Group, Client, SSID, or AP, remember your selection changes the perspective of Traffic In versus Traffic Out:
- When View by Client Group is selected, Traffic In represents cumulative data received by the client group from the access point and Traffic Out represents cumulative data sent from the client group to the access point.
- When View by Client is selected, Traffic In represents data received by the client from the access point and Traffic Out represents data sent from the client to the access point.
- When View by AP is selected, Traffic In represents data received by the access point from the client and Traffic Out represents data sent from the access point to the client.
- When View by SSID is selected, Traffic In represents data received by an access point associated with a particular SSID. Traffic Out represents data sent from an access point associated with a particular SSID.

Note: If Current is selected as the reporting interval, Average Bytes Received and Average Bytes Sent become Bytes Received and Bytes Sent since there is no time span over which to average data.

When you view the bandwidth report in graphical format, the the x axis represents the selected date range and the y axis represents aggregate average traffic for the selected client, SSID, or access point within the specified time interval. Each item on the graph is color-coded. Click the Show Legend check box below the graph to display the legend listing the device names and corresponding colors.

Note: Reported bandwidth data, though displayed split between traffic in and traffic out, is aggregated. As a result, the Client Group/Client/SSID/AP Traffic In and Traffic Out line items are always identical and at first glance the report may not appear to be sorted properly. The first item in each Client Group/Client/SSID/AP list has the highest TOTAL bandwidth (Traffic In + Traffic Out), the second item has the second highest, etc.