Ha....he used dick. He is back feeling better....I hate home router issues...the clients are never happy
Jaime Solorza On Oct 21, 2015 11:05 PM, "That One Guy /sarcasm" <[email protected]> wrote: > not to be the dick, but why are you involved in this? > Did you provide the two routers? > If you did (this is the super dick part) why didnt you use the right > product for the job? > > Have you looked in the netgears to see if they have any magician software > for a scenario like this? Sometimes these consumer garbage cans have some > crazy advanced features in their utility packages. or even something like a > dd-wrt load you can do something with. > > Maybe you can do some magicsauce like setting the mac on the wireless > interface of the routers the same and see what happens, or stab the guy in > his eyesocket, thats alot of consumer wifi in such a small area to not stab > him. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Sean Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This sounds like a good situation for a unifi system. >> >> -Sean >> >> On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 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? >>> >>> > > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >
