Diference between wds slave and station wds?

RouterOS General
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Hi!

I wonder what is main diference between wds slave and station wds, for now i use wds slave-ap bridge mode, and it’s working very good, but if i use station wds (it can be bridged, not like station mode) will that mode follow channel on the ap if i change it?

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station-wds - the interface is working as a station, but can communicate with a WDS peer
wds-slave - the interface is working as it would work in ap-bridge mode, but it adapts to its WDS peer’s frequency if it is changed

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Thank you very much for quick answer, i need to know one more thing:

is it better to use wds slave or wds station if i want to extend my wireless network (one wireless interface is link(wds) other is ap bridge)?

Thanks again! :slight_smile:

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You want to extend your network do ptp between the AP’s on 5ghz adn 2.4 ghz for supply the area. Star topology only use wds if you really have to
George Midia

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nightstar, if sole purpose of WDS link is connecting to remote AP, it is more efficient to use station-wds, e.g. because it does not send out beacon frames like any AP mode interface does. Use wds-slave only when you also require AP functionality for interface that will be forming WDS link. As far as I understand you do not need this in your case - other interface will be working as AP.

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Thank you very much for the help!

Hapy new year! :slight_smile:

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wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Transparently_Bridge_two_Networks why do we need to add wifi1 to the bridge? I have a working setup without wlan1 since the dynamic wds1 interface is automatically added to the bridge. Confusing :confused: