There are 4 SSIDs. But customer has each device “join” each SSID. I expected the devices to pick one SSID and stay with it down to 1 bar, but they seem very fickle.
Or are you saying make all the SSIDs the same? I don’t think it matters, there are 4 wireless networks, even if they are all named the same. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 2 wireless APs on bridged Mikrotik ports Why not do 4 SSIDs? Add the profiles once and then done. I think your issue is probably the APs, not the bridge/switch part but it doesn't really help. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Oct 21, 2015 11:59 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: I have a customer who insisted he needed 2 dual band wireless APs 25 feet apart in his ranch house. So we have a managed non-WiFi Mikrotik RB2011 in his basement, feeding two Netgear routers in wireless AP mode. I have the LAN ports bridged rather than using the switch chips, since there's plenty of CPU power and it gives more visibility into the traffic. So counting 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, the customer has 4 SSIDs and I think his devices like iPads are jumping back and forth between networks. And I think bad things are happening because the bridging table can't keep track of which port the clients are on. I see weird things like the same amount of traffic going out the ports to both wireless APs. I never see a MAC address on both bridge ports, but it is acting like the Mikrotik is flooding traffic to both ports. Should I be tweaking parameters like reducing the ageing time below the default 5 minutes? Should I be using the switch chips and not bridging? Is this a typical problem when devices can choose between multiple APs close together on the same bridged LAN?
