At the moment I am routing all public ip’s, sending 5.8ghz links to each tower, and then sending 2.4ghz to clients.
Is there a better way of doing this? should I setup all the 2.4ghz on a WDS with the same ssid so that people can roam between sites? And if so how should I configure this, and off-load traffic on the 5.8 links at the closest relay?
-Michael
IMO you are doing this correctly. This is how most wisps do it. WDS is more of a pain than a boon, and roaming between aps causes problems. Traditionally, roaming is a pppoe off one radius server thing. This makes it more secure, and easier to do AAA, and makes it easier to administer each pop individually. WDS has problems when you have more than a few hops, and the load on one ends up being load on the other. Keep to what you are doing, it is the industry standard.
Ok, thanks for the confirm.
I am running pppoe autentication for my dedicated users and a hotspot service in order to pickup some clients that are in the town for a few days, want service, then leave. They get the hotspot page that says call for service etc etc.