Hi Folks, trying to improve my home system, I wonder if there are any best practices for a frequency setup in Capsman:
here is the WiFi - Setup Part of my Router’s config:
/caps-man configuration
add channel.band=2ghz-b/g/n .control-channel-width=20mhz .extension-channel=Ce .frequency=2437 country=germany datapath.bridge=vlan_bridge .interface-list=all .local-forwarding=yes .vlan-id=20
.vlan-mode=use-tag frame-lifetime=0ms installation=any mode=ap multicast-helper=full name=“Guest 2.4” security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk .encryption=aes-ccm ssid=Uhlandstr-122-Guest
add channel.band=5ghz-n/ac .control-channel-width=20mhz .extension-channel=Ce .frequency=5250 country=germany datapath.bridge=vlan_bridge .interface-list=all .local-forwarding=yes .vlan-id=20 .vlan-mode=
use-tag frame-lifetime=0ms installation=any mode=ap multicast-helper=full name=“Guest 5” security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk .encryption=aes-ccm ssid=Uhlandstr-122-Guest
add channel.band=2ghz-b/g/n .control-channel-width=20mhz .extension-channel=Ce .frequency=2412 country=germany datapath.bridge=vlan_bridge .interface-list=all .local-forwarding=yes .vlan-id=1 .vlan-mode=
use-tag frame-lifetime=0ms installation=any mode=ap multicast-helper=full name=“Master WLAN 2.4” security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk .encryption=aes-ccm ssid=Uhlandstr-122-CAP
add channel.band=5ghz-n/ac .control-channel-width=20mhz .extension-channel=Ce .frequency=5200 country=germany datapath.bridge=vlan_bridge .interface-list=all .local-forwarding=yes .vlan-id=1 .vlan-mode=
use-tag frame-lifetime=0ms installation=any mode=ap multicast-helper=full name=“Master WLAN 5” security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk .encryption=aes-ccm ssid=Uhlandstr-122-CAP
add channel.band=2ghz-b/g/n .control-channel-width=20mhz .extension-channel=Ce .frequency=2462 country=germany datapath.bridge=vlan_bridge .interface-list=all .local-forwarding=yes .vlan-id=10
.vlan-mode=use-tag installation=any keepalive-frames=enabled mode=ap multicast-helper=full name=Shelly security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk .encryption=aes-ccm ssid=Shelly-122
And the provisioning is the following: the main interfaces, the hardware - antennas in 2.4 and 5 GHz are getting the “Master WLAN” configs accordingly in 2.4 and 5 GHz, the “… Guest” and “Shelly” configs are virtual interfaces.
The hardware I am using as access points are hAP ac (9x) and hAp ac Lite (2x). This setup is working right now, I got working WiFis all across my property.
What I am wondering, how could one improve on the frequency setup? In this config, I basically hard coded a frequency for every WiFi I created and specified one extension channel. I have read about configs, where one would just setup the frequency on the master (physical) interface and the virtual / slave interfaces would use the same.
What are the pros and cons compared to the way I did it? How would I setup this? just leaving the frequency blank threw me an error. If I was to configure just a frequency on the physical interface, would it be a good idea in that case to add more extension channels, like Ceee or something?
Thanks a lot
Jens