Mikrotik APs have the capability to create a "Virtual AP" with a
secondary SSID, but I haven't found much documentation about it.
Has anyone used this feature much? I could see this being useful during
a transitional period, while you are changing the SSID, so you can
access the CPE with the "old" ssid.
I could also see this being useful for colocating two companies on the
same tower/AP, like if you have an ISP geared toward residential
service, and another company name/marketing scheme for business customers.
I don't know what kind of performance impact there is when you create a
bunch of APs on one radio.
I had a wierd thought about this, however: If I have 40 clients on an
AP, and set up 40 "virtual AP's" on the network with each client on his
own SSID, do they count as 40 PTP links, allowing me to kick up the
antenna gain like with the CPE?
Does the virtual AP really broadcast a secondary SSID, or does it switch
between the two rapidly, kind of like a poor man's Time Division
Multiplexing.
Pete Davis
NoDial.net
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