Wanted to report back. I applied the recommendations from Josh and
Justin - to my surprise and relief, it resolved the issues I was having.
Signal levels improved dramatically and things are working as they
should. Thanks to everyone for the help and input - this list is awesome!
Rory McCann
Minn-Kota Ag Products
P: 701-403-4877 | E: r...@mkap.com
On 8/31/2012 8:06 AM, Rory McCann wrote:
The issue has been the iPad and it's lack of properly roaming. We
originally had two APs set up and the iPad was too stubborn to
auto-connect to the other AP outside when the signal was bad. These
people not being tech savvy at all further complicates things.
Was hoping for some kind of solution that wouldn't involve messing
with the wifi settings on the iPad at all.
Rory McCann
Minn-Kota Ag Products
P: 701-403-4877 | E: r...@mkap.com
On 8/30/2012 11:45 PM, Justin Miller wrote:
Make sure you have long preamble turned on as well. You have to click
advanced under options to see it. It helps on Mac OS X, iOS is very
similar.
I would also recommend a second card. You can have the same SSID on
both and roam.
Justin Miller
On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Rory McCann <rmm.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
I've never used wireless on Mikrotik before, so I figured the next
time I had a project it would be a good time for initiation.
I've got a client/coworker who has an iPad that they use to control
and stream music to their stereo that has speakers in their garage
and outside on their patio. Due to the size of the house/area and
the materials involved (steel siding, etc) they are not able to get
very good performance with an AP just in the garage. Rather than add
an additional AP, we opted to run one antenna outside and keep one
inside for the garage area.
I have a 433AH with an R52Hn wireless card. There's two antenna
connectors on it and it seemed like it would be pretty straight
forward, however I'm not having much luck getting any kind of
reliable performance with the unit at all. Wi-Fi drops often and the
streaming doesn't work at all. I know the antennas are good because
I hooked up a lower power Cisco AP to the antennas for the time
being, but I was hoping to use the MT with the R52Hn for a little
extra push. The goal is to allow them to roam from the garage to the
patio without dropping.
I'm not sure what I have configured incorrectly, but I have the
regulatory domain set, the 802.11 profile set and the card is
configured for 802.11bgn mode. Looking at the transmit powers under
current tx power in Winbox, the max it shows is 22 - I thought this
card went to 25 on lower modulations?
Anyone have any pointers for me on how to get this working? Here's
the config:
/interface wireless
set 0 antenna-gain=8 country="united states" band=2ghz-b/g/n
frequency=2437 frequency-mode=regulatory_domain l2mtu=2290
mode=ap-bridge name=AP scan-list=default ssid=MA2
wireless-protocol=802.11 wmm-support=enabled
Thanks!
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