Amazing! I somehow ended up applying this exact setup yesterday and it worked like a charm! I came today to answer my own question and ask if that is the best approach, and your reply just confirms that.It seems that all you need to do is set wifi2 on Master Audience to 'ap bridge', and on Slave Audience to 'station bridge', with security settings and all identical on both. You will also need to actually add the interfaces to bridges on both Audiences, the bridge is probably named bridgeLocal or something, the adding is done in Bridge > Ports, where you just click the plus sign, choose wifi2, and then pray everything works as you click the OK button.
This cannot be done through CAPsMAN, as the Slave Audience obviously does not and cannot have any connection to CAPsMAN at startup. It must be done manually on the Audiences themselves. You should therefore unset the manager property on wifi2 on both Audiences.
As for the connection between Audiences, do not use the same SSID and password as you do for your home network. Pick a random SSID, make it hidden, generate a random password, and probably try using WPA3. Set it up with WPA2 first, though, to check that everything works.
You can try and refer to this in case you have trouble setting it all up, with maybe a little bit of this where the first thing refers to "previous article" or something like that.
Thanks a lot!
This is the end setup:
- CAPsMAN disabled on Router and APs
- Living Room AP connected directly to Router and set as AP (I think ap-bridge does not exist in wifi-qcom-ac package)
- Bedroom AP set as station-bridge
- Two visible network (2GHz and 5GHz) on both APs with exact same config on both (SSID, Security and etc)
- One hidden network on the 5GHz 4x4 antenna, with a hidden network with random password and WPA3
That's it!
Connected my Apple TV on the ether2 on Bedroom AP and I'm getting 500Mbps+ up and down, with 4ms latency. More than enough.
Also, consider using the 4x4 radios for backhaul. Approximately 0% of client devices can do 4x4. You probably don't need it on the wifi itself. But your backhaul performance will improve. Especially if you're allowed to use channel 149 (5745 MHz) at 30 dBm in your country.
Trust me, with wireless backhaul, unless you have paper-thin walls, you really want to use that sweet 30 dBm TX power. Normally setting it that high is somewhat of a folly, as the client device can't answer the AP at the same power level. But in this case, the client device is an AP. So it totally can, and you'll get a big speed improvement both up and down, as well as improved stability.
I did! I decided to use 4x4 because I thought exactly that it would be much better for the backhaul performance.
Regarding the channel and dBm, do you know if setting the country in AP configs is enough to AP to ensure I'm using the allowed channels?
Also, the 30 dBm should be set in the TX power or in the antenna gain?
Statistics: Posted by synchro — Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:19 pm