Hello everyone.
My family surprised me with an unexpected present for Christmas. Hardware upgrade for our house. hEX S will be replaced with RB5009UPr+S+IN
and hAP ac and cAP ac will be replaced with two cAP ax (maybe three when the old hardware is sold)
I’m really excited to play around with containers and the wifiwave2 package. And I can’t wait for the delivery.
The current wifi config is simple: hAP ac and cAP ac in CAP mode managed from hEX S with Capsman.
And there are a lot of networks through VLANs.
From this year, some of our mobile plans are with 5g unlimited data (unlimited use of gigabytes, but with a limited speed of 300 Mbps)
So I’m wondering if is it possible with the wifiwave2 package to add one more wifi interface, but in a (some kind of) station mode. in parallel along with a Capsman-provided network.
The goal is when the main cable internet stops (we live in the country - which happens from time to time)… one of us can run a hotspot from the phone - which will power the whole house with the internet - no matter on what floor it is on at the moment.
Phone Hotstop → wifi statin mode → Provided as a second IPS → all_routers_vlans_firewall-rules_all-kind-of-settings and have internet for desired sub-networks.
With the first version of Capsman, this is not possible.
Мy first idea was to use hAP ac for wifi station mode which is constantly waiting for phone hotspot network. But I won’t be able to get it on all floors that way.
I’ll certainly try it when the new toys come, but I can’t find enough info at the moment and I’m curious if anyone has done it.
p.s. not sure if I used the correct terminology for wifi bridge (wifi mode: station)
Theoretically what you CAN do, is create a virtual wifi interface not connected to capsman and set that one in station mode.
Even with old capsman or legacy wifi devices this is possible.
PS don’t throw away that cap ac !
With 7.13beta wifiwave2 is also available for quite a bit of ac-arm devices, incl cap ac.
When mixing AP and station mode on single radio, keep in mind that station has to follow AP regarding channel and bandwidth used. Which means it’s easier to get things right if physical interface acts as station and virtual one then acts as AP.
Beware that the virtual AP will work on exactly same radio channel as the “upstream AP” and will hence “eat into” it’s air time … degrading overall performance quite a lot.
That makes sense. It is not a good idea.Thanks for the explanation.
Today I was happy because the mobile operator allowed me to use a second SIM card, which is cloned from the main one legally. So I can have this scenario without paying too much for a new plan. This was not possible a few years ago.
And discard the original idea …