Yep - because manually shuffling customers around after an outage is super annoying.
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 2:15 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I know... Cambium said they were looking into doing that at one > point, but it doesn't seem like anything will every come of it... maybe > they'll at least do it on the ePMP 3000 at some point. > > Ideally, if a preferred AP isn't set, it should periodically rescan for > the strongest AP, and if a preferred AP is set, it should rescan for the > preferred AP. > > On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 1:00 PM Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Only thing annoying about NOT SETTING a preferred AP is that if the AP >> reboots, customers can hop over to a non-ideal AP. >> >> Only bad thing about SETTING a preferred AP is that clients can't hop >> over to another AP if you need to take an AP offline for an extended period >> of time. >> >> If only the SM would periodically rescan when it's NOT connected to the >> preferred AP, and reconnect to the preferred AP.. but Cambium doesn't seem >> to be listening. >> >> On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 1:29 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Yeah, we do the same. If you use the same key everywhere, and just don't >>> set any preferred AP, it will connect to any AP that key is valid on. >>> >>> We generally never even bother setting a preferred AP, unless we have >>> problems with a particular SM connecting to the wrong AP. >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 12:18 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> we just use the same key with different ESSIDs and have a dump file. We >>>> cant go new out of box, but nothing leaves the shop without the dump file >>>> and it only takes a couple minutes in the van if its not there. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 3:08 PM Josh Luthman < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Has this idea been left to rot? Haven't heard anything about it at >>>>> all in a couple of years and I keep thinking it would be so handy, >>>>> especially in winter time. >>>>> >>>>> Josh Luthman >>>>> Office: 937-552-2340 >>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343 >>>>> 1100 Wayne St >>>>> Suite 1337 >>>>> Troy, OH 45373 >>>>> -- >>>>> AF mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> AF mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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