That's what I was looking at doing, but what that approach seems to lack compared to the mesh systems is seamless roaming between APs. I think it's possible to do that on Mikrotik using their CAPsMAN thingy, but I never spent enough time to figure out if that's a realistic option.
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 9:36 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > My brain is kind of full and so I’ve avoided learning how to do WiFi mesh > systems. But with everybody and their brother selling home WiFi systems, > and customers wanting WiFi everywhere and too lazy to use a cable even 1 > foot away, mesh WiFi now seems impossible to avoid. But many of these > systems have limited configuration options, want to be controlled via the > cloud from an app on your phone, and don’t seem to play nice with a 5 GHz > connection from a WISP. Adding in things like FireSticks that use WiFi for > the remote seems to aggravate this whole situation. > > > > So looking at roll-your-own-mesh using Mikrotik, I’m reluctant to use > WDS. Reading threads on the Mikrotik forums tends to confirm my unease > with this approach. My clear preference is a wired mesh, but customers > just flat out refuse to have any cables. Everything must be wireless and > work automagically, which I assume is why they will pay $300 for a 3-pack > of Google WiFi hockey pucks. > > > > So here’s my question: what’s wrong with a main router that uses both 2.4 > and 5 GHz, and then satellites with a 2.4 GHz AP bridged to a 5 GHz client > that connects to the main router. Is the problem that now you have a > hub-and-spoke design not a true mesh? Do people need a system that can > hopscotch from A to B to C to D in order to get to the far reaches of their > house? Is there a way to run a backbone between nodes that none of the > customer devices connect to? I thought I read that Netgear’s Orbi worked > that way. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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