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? > >
