Recent content by Jure Erznožnik

Yep. I was also sitting on the couch where the AP is in direct line of sight 3m away. The first other AP is upstairs, past a reinforced concrete floor, so there was no roaming involved here.

Well, yesterday, for the first time, my phone wouldn't connect to one of three SSIDs in the network. Nothing special about it, just one of three equal SSIDs. And so it begins... :(

Without derailing the topic with discussion on semantics, I don't see how that translates to managing this stuff on the APs themselves. But the UI IS actually made such that you have to open a device (AP in this instance) and set its static IP from its configuration subpage. That doesn't mean...

Where did you get an idea for either of those? This is of course NOT the case. Stuff like that is managed on the router. APs are just APs.

The likes: it works. I ultimately found every setting I needed and every setting does what it needs to do. The not so liked stuff: Controller software is clunky: the installer is HUGE and then I have to install Java & DB server on top of that Running the controller software is clunky as well...

Also, I'm keeping Mikrotik for the office setup: the hAP ax2 units are working well for me and the configuration is still something I love with them. Would be a waste to just discard it all...

Well, I went for Omada. It's irritating as hell, but it works, which was my primary goal. Coverage is a bit weak, though: I'm going to have to add another AP to cover a section of the house that was previously just fine. My wife complains and that's never a good thing :)

Well, for me it's a necessary evil, the lot. And it usually works, on the consumer level, until you need something more. Then one needs stuff like we're discussing here instead of a "simple" consumer-level router. Makes life complicated :)

I took a look at this pfsense. They look like a mini PC. Seems to me, they are defined by software, not a particular brand of router? Not sure if I dare go this way? Is there a site explaining basic operation of this?

I didn't find a suitable router to go with those APs, though. I would have preferred a single system to configure everything, not just the APs. That's why I was asking the question here.

Well, can't do much about the reboots. RouterOS went two minor versions forward since I initially set up the stuff, so hopefully they have fixed the issue with SSIDs freezing after a while. That would be very helpful. But the remaining advantages stand, especially the price and power of...

Thanks for all the great replies, guys. All of this info led me to think that I might as well get my network working by using solely the hAP ax2 units. The wireless performance is good and their only notable drawback is that they require a daily reboot to continue functioning. I also have two...

So basically, you have set up the network using a "third-party" router, then piggybacked the APs onto that? Any issues with VLAN IDs or something to that effect or does stuff just work like that?

I am moving from a multi-router system to a centrally managed one. The main reason being that I need a guest network, that is properly isolated from my main home network. Second most-important is PoE due to space constraints where the APs are mounted. My previous setup was composed of three...

Thanks this was so similar to my own setup that i did the most stupid thing: I explored the "Server is on the same subnet" (default: No) Of courseeeee...... things started working immediately Then I just needed to define a static route on the server router so that I have access to my own...