Had some free time to circle back to this.
Discovered something and maybe someone can tell me if this is intended behavior/working as designed. hAP ax3 still working fine, directly configured in CAPsMAN. I've added a hAP ax2 to CAPsMAN on the same network. CAPsMAN has assigned the hAP ax3 "cap-wifi1" (5GHz radio) and the hAP ax2 "cap-wifi3" (5GHz radio).
Configurations are the same for both cap-wifi1 and cap-wifi3. I noticed on cap-wifi1, the automatically assigned Channel is currently "5180/ax/Ceee". I then noticed on cap-wifi3, the automatically assigned Channel was something different. No devices would connect to cap-wifi3.
I then went into CAPsMAN (WiFi) -> Channel tab, created a new channel configuration (channel1) then only changed the Frequency field to what cap-wifi1 is currently using. I then went back to the direct configuration of cap-wifi3, Channel tab, set Channel to "channel1" thereby forcing cap-wifi1 and cap-wifi3 to use the same channel.
Turned off WiFi on my iPhone, turned it back on. It immediately registered/connected to cap-wifi3 on the hAP ax2.
So multiple APs that share the same SSIDs and their 5GHz radios on all CAPsMAN registered APs must have have matching channel frequencies before any devices can connect? Because that appears to be the behavior I'm seeing.
See attachments.
Discovered something and maybe someone can tell me if this is intended behavior/working as designed. hAP ax3 still working fine, directly configured in CAPsMAN. I've added a hAP ax2 to CAPsMAN on the same network. CAPsMAN has assigned the hAP ax3 "cap-wifi1" (5GHz radio) and the hAP ax2 "cap-wifi3" (5GHz radio).
Configurations are the same for both cap-wifi1 and cap-wifi3. I noticed on cap-wifi1, the automatically assigned Channel is currently "5180/ax/Ceee". I then noticed on cap-wifi3, the automatically assigned Channel was something different. No devices would connect to cap-wifi3.
I then went into CAPsMAN (WiFi) -> Channel tab, created a new channel configuration (channel1) then only changed the Frequency field to what cap-wifi1 is currently using. I then went back to the direct configuration of cap-wifi3, Channel tab, set Channel to "channel1" thereby forcing cap-wifi1 and cap-wifi3 to use the same channel.
Turned off WiFi on my iPhone, turned it back on. It immediately registered/connected to cap-wifi3 on the hAP ax2.
So multiple APs that share the same SSIDs and their 5GHz radios on all CAPsMAN registered APs must have have matching channel frequencies before any devices can connect? Because that appears to be the behavior I'm seeing.
See attachments.
Statistics: Posted by k2dI5umrD9VO — Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:45 pm