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Howard Enos f2ff4a7f89 sync: auto-sync from HOWARD-HOME at 2026-06-16 07:49:26

Author: Howard Enos
Machine: HOWARD-HOME
Timestamp: 2026-06-16 07:49:26

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Cascades of Tucson — UniFi Full Audit (2026-06-16)

Generated by the unifi-wifi skill (read-only). Fleet: 77 U7-Pro APs, 12 switches, ~587 clients, no UniFi gateway (pfSense firewall). All collectors ran clean.

Issues — prioritized

#	Sev	Issue	Detail / fix
1	HIGH	2.4 GHz saturation (the "bad for some users")	75 radios at auto/full power, ch6/1/11 at 16k–33k neighbor BSSIDs; 123 clients on 2.4 at ~10% retry. Fix: power-down 65 radios to Low, then disable 9 redundant (plan below).
2	HIGH	~25 switch ports linked at 100 M but gig-capable	FastEthernet/cabling-or-NIC issue capping those APs/devices at 100 Mbps (1st/2nd/3rd-floor switches). Physical: re-terminate/replace cable or check NIC.
3	MED	6 GHz essentially unused — 1 client of 587	75 6E radios live, nearly empty. Enable band-steering (`bandsteer`/`bands`) to offload 5 GHz onto the clean band.
4	MED	5 GHz on 80 MHz (76/77) + 55 on DFS	80 MHz kills spatial reuse in density → 40 MHz. DFS empirically low-risk here (0 radar events) but move to non-DFS for resilience (near Davis-Monthan).
5	MED	6 APs with 2.4 min-RSSI OFF; 4 APs off the 1/6/11 plan	min-RSSI OFF: 615, 608, 505, 517, 622, salon. Off-plan (auto): 128, 108, 108U7-Pro, salon.
6	LOW	3 offline switches + 2 disconnected APs + 1 firmware update	Offline: Switch 2nd Floor #2, Switch 4th Floor #2, USW Pro Max 16. APs: 108 ×2 (cable run pending, known). 1 device upgradable.
7	LOW	p38 (1st Floor USW) 4.0% tx-drop rate	Correlates with the underspeed/heavy-traffic ports; investigate after #2.

WiFi detail

2.4 GHz: 77 radios, all 20 MHz (good); power auto×75 (want Low); channels 1:20 / 6:28 / 11:25 / auto:4. min-RSSI OFF on 6. Neighbor density: ch6 33,376 · ch1 19,355 · ch11 16,598 BSSIDs. Live retry avg 10.2%.
5 GHz: 77 radios, 80 MHz ×76 / 40 MHz ×1; rogue density biased to ch149/157 (busy upper). 463 clients. retry avg 8.0%.
6 GHz: 75 radios active, 1 client. Wide open.
AP satisfaction (live): min 90 / median 98 / max 100 → healthy in aggregate; the pain is the 2.4 GHz client tail.

Data-backed radio plan (optimize-radios + /proc/ui_neighbor SNR matrix)

Phase A — power-down 65 2.4 radios to Low (smaller cells cut mutual interference; coverage-safe).
Phase C — disable 9 redundant 2.4 radios after re-measure (each heard by ≥2 strong neighbors): 127→128, 229→128, 248→348, 330→128, 445→347/348/247, 428→128, 622→505/615/608, Kitchen→Memcare TV room, Dining Room→memcare piano. Est. interference-airtime removed: ~619.
Channel plan available: 2.4 GHz 1/6/11 graph-color (co-channel pairs 92→35); 5 GHz non-DFS (20→0 and all off DFS).

Switch / PoE (12 switches, 29 flags)

~25 ports at 100 M but gig-capable (see #2). PoE budgets healthy (e.g. 1st-floor 160/600 W).
3 offline switches (above).

Gateway / WAN

No UniFi gateway (pfSense) → WAN/internet not measurable via UniFi. Adoption: APs 77 (2 disc), switches 12 (3 disc), 587 clients.

Recommended sequence

Physical: fix the ~25 underspeed ports (#2) + chase the 3 offline switches / AP 108 cable.
WiFi Phase A: power-down 2.4 to Low per zone, validate with watch-ap (live before/after).
Enable 6 GHz band-steering + 5 GHz 80→40 MHz non-DFS channel plan.
Set 2.4 min-RSSI on the 6 OFF APs; pin the 4 off-plan APs to 1/6/11.
Phase C: disable the 9 redundant 2.4 radios after re-measure.

(All changes via the gated apply-radio/apply-wlan/channel-plan scripts — per zone, with rollback + live validation. Nothing applied in this audit.)

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