Balance the load was probably the wrong wording. I was picturing the wireless signal as pie. And picturing a VirtualAP to be taking away half that pie from the main ap.
But it seems that is not that case. The virtualAP is so that there can be a hotspot running on the same hardware as the main ap which uses vlans. For now they have to run together, due to limited tower space. Since the hotspot side is going away, I hope to be able to phase them out entirely. Thanks -Keith- ----- Original Message ----- From: Butch Evans <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 4/9/2009 11:36am To: Mikrotik discussions <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Virtual AP Question On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:25 -0500, Butch Evans wrote: > Keith said: > Basically, are the MT"s smart enough to balance the load between them > effciently? Keith, I'm not sure what you mean by "balance the load". There is a little bit of overhead for each virtual AP. The AP will be sending out beacons for both the physical AP AND the virtual AP. > Or if I have a VirtualAP, does it carve a chunk of usable Wireless space > out, so that the main AP can't use it? There will be packet traffic in the interface queues for both the physical AP and the virtual AP. I'm not sure how this is handled at a "low level". That is something that is handled by the Atheros driver code. > I'm transitioning clients over, and some of the AP's have 50+ clients.. > thus maxing the card. If I add the VAp to help move them, does it make > those 50+ get worse signal right out of the gate? SHouldn't be worse signal, however you will see a little more overhead. The process of creating a virtual AP, transition clients, build a new physical AP is my "recommended path", however. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
