This is a screen shot of my logs from my Mikrotik device, its obviosly scanning for best signal but, why? I have played around with (no radar detect) and it didn’t seem to change results. I have a lot of devices that do this, is this periodic calibration? Thanks for the help p.s the SSID this device should be locked to is VistaVox, this client is less than 1/4 mile form AP.
jan/01 00:00:28 wireless,debug wlan1: STA starts scanning
jan/01 00:00:29 wireless,debug wlan1: STA scan over, results:
jan/01 00:00:29 wireless,debug 00:15:6D:63:10:B9: on 2427 SSID VistaVox-PW
caps 0x421 rates 0xf basic 0x1 MT: yes
jan/01 00:00:29 wireless,debug 00:12:0E:86:5C:43: on 2437 SSID 07B408806406
caps 0x431 rates 0xff1f basic 0xf MT: no
jan/01 00:00:29 wireless,debug wlan1: must select network
jan/01 00:00:29 wireless,debug wlan1: no network that satisfies connect-list,
by default choose with strongest signal
jan/01 00:00:29 wireless,debug wlan1: selected 00:15:6D:63:10:B9, SSID
VistaVox-PW on 2427
jan/01 00:00:29 wireless,info 00:15:6D:63:10:B9@wlan1 established connection
on 2427, SSID VistaVox-PW
jan/01 00:05:25 wireless,info 00:15:6D:63:10:B9@wlan1: lost connection,
extensive data loss
jan/01 00:05:25 wireless,debug wlan1: STA starts scanning
jan/01 00:05:26 wireless,debug wlan1: STA scan over, results:
jan/01 00:05:26 wireless,debug 00:15:6D:63:10:B9: on 2427 SSID VistaVox-PW
caps 0x421 rates 0xf basic 0x1 MT: yes
jan/01 00:05:26 wireless,debug 00:12:0E:86:5C:43: on 2437 SSID 07B408806406
caps 0x431 rates 0xff1f basic 0xf MT: no
jan/01 00:05:26 wireless,debug 00:18:F8:D9:1D:88: on 2437 SSID amy millikin
caps 0x411 rates 0xff0f basic 0xf MT: no
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It’s looses connection and reconnect again. You wanna check both sides to be sure what is causing it.
I don’t think this has anything to do with scripting.
but it seems to do the scan on it’s own. I don’t think it is loosing connection, just scanning for better signal, notice our main AP always satisfies strongest signal and is chosen.?
send through a screen cap of your signal strengths when it is connected.. you’d need to look at both sides thou.
If it’s showing the “extensive data loss” then it’s either a flaky signal or there’s something nearby interfering.
It’d be worthwhile doing a scan and seeing what other wireless networks are showing up in the area.
Check for “fake ap” someone might put to spoof your traffic.
Where?, like just do a scan and see if I can see another broadcast with same SSID as mine?
“extensive data loss” then it’s either a flaky signal or there’s something nearby interfering. I wasn’t aware of that, thanks. And yes lots of linksys in the area etc.
You could try using snooper to see what’s happening. There may be a 2nd SSID that the station sees and gives it a go.
Recently I had a situation like this when I mistakenly left a device configured as bridge with wds after I added a second in station-wds mode and changed the other side of the bridge to ap-bridge.
The station would scan and hop to the bridge when it should have connected to the AP.
Another thing to check then, if you can see a lot of other wireless networks in the area, try to pick a channel thats least crowded with the acceptable channels.
In Australia the regular ones are 1, 6 and 11 as these channels have a negliable amount of interference. If you see people sitting on channels inbetween, try to pick the other end of the range as for example, if you had clients sitting on 1 or 6 and someone else was using 3, you’d get interference on both 1 and 6.
