Hi all!
8 AP need to install in one place - external car parking (200m x 200m). There is LAN network to all AP and need to install wireless network up to 300 roaming vehicles.
How many client could be connected to one AP in 5GHz card?
Which technology to choose: Connection Profiles, Mesh, WDS ?
Vehicles is on the move and in the future will be in a different place.
Signal strength range in connection profiles isn’t good idea, because too many vehicles wants connected to AP1 and not to AP2.
That MikroTik has a solution such as AP Manager?
What can you offer, any suggestions?
Thanks for replay.
If you have ethernet to each AP, you can just bridge each AP’s wlan and ether, and bridge all the ether (a simple switch will do) to a central router. Use the same SSID on each AP, distribute channels 1/6/11 to minimize overlap, and that’s about it. No need for WDS because you have wired backhaul, which will perform far better.
I just worry that to many vehicles will want connect to one AP.
How to loadbalancing all vehicles to all APs?
For example 50 clients want connect to AP1, becouse singnal strenght is good, but on AP2 is only 6 clients.
The distance is to small that one AP will see few AP, so it must be mechanism to decide which choosen.
How to manage this situation?
Have you any idea?
Never put more than 25 clients on a single AP (true for any vendor with standard 802.11)
The client chooses which AP it uses. In ROS you can only limit the maximum amout of clients that can connect (if that is reached a client might try another AP).
In general your best bet is to reduce the AP TX power to the absolute minimum and place them so that the distribution will be mostly uniform.
I think I need AP Manager and what a pity that MT doesn’t have it.
But other vendor like Motorola will be cost 10x more.
Maybe someone can offer commercial software to manage Mikrotik AP ?