Can someone please explain what ENABLING or DISABLING wireless interface -> keepalive frames does? Mainly in the context of a mikrotik being used as an Access Point to consumer wireless devices (ie Phones, Tablets, Laptops of various types).
the mikrotik manual's Description for this properly is blank, and searches of google for "wireless keepalive frames" seems to show that this is a setting / function specific to mikrotiks (ie all the google results are mikrotik related.
Im noticing on a few of my APs , clients with Last Activity of 1000s of seconds (see attached image please, when i cross ref. the clients with high last activity times, with their dhcp leases, they are always Phones, iPhones mainly and sometimes android phones) - also i have noticed the devices must be sleeping, because when they are active their signal strength with jump up 20 or so db. This is something i have not seen at prior installs (all the MTs are running ROS 6.36 or newer , most have XR2 2.4ghz radio cards in RB 433)
I did read this tread that says the power save function of enabling WMM mode on my APs may help with battery life on iOS devices (all of my APs have WMM set to disabled (the default), since i dont classify my traffic anyway - i DO have keepalive Frames enabled (the mt default)
Thanks