Why not tell him the APs need to be at least x feet apart (where x=100')
or something like that? If he insists on putting them that close
together, they will cause confusion amongst the clients.
bp
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On 10/21/2015 8:59 PM, Ken Hohhof 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?
