I've had tons of issues over the years, including yesterday, where we had multiple Preferred APs. Having 1 is only a disadvantage when the one AP goes bad with a nearby "backup" and if you're preparing for that I feel like you've got a lot more problems on your hand.
I guess maybe it is a feature sell on the 450 =( Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 2:20 PM Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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