DLI Web Power Switch Wireless Connection issues.

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I am a big fan of webpower switches for cycling locked up modems. They save me from so many phone calls.

Digital Loggers has put out a webpower switch with a wireless interface.
https://dlidirect.com/products/new-pro-switch

Just out of curiosity… I put the DLI on my wireless network. (Just for proof of concept.)
Now I also have a Domotz sitting on my network that will send me alerts if a device goes off line. The DLI seems to drop off line long enough for the Domotz to alert me kind of frequently.
So i added a netwatch to ping the DLI every 10 seconds. Sure enough my log is filling up with messages.

So just now… I ran a ping from terminal against the DLI.
/ping 172.16.12.5
SEQ HOST SIZE TTL TIME STATUS
0 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
1 172.16.12.5 56 64 410ms
2 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
3 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
4 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
5 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
6 172.16.12.5 56 64 2ms
7 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
8 172.16.12.5 56 64 11ms
9 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
10 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
11 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
12 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
13 172.16.12.5 56 64 3ms
14 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
15 172.16.12.5 56 64 99ms
16 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
17 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
18 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
19 172.16.12.5 56 64 2ms
20 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
21 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
22 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
23 172.16.12.5 56 64 6ms
24 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
25 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
26 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
27 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
28 172.16.12.5 timeout
29 172.16.12.5 56 64 375ms
30 172.16.12.5 56 64 5ms
31 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
32 172.16.12.5 56 64 4ms
33 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
34 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
35 172.16.12.5 56 64 24ms
36 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
37 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
38 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
39 172.16.12.5 56 64 1ms
sent=40 received=39 packet-loss=2% min-rtt=1ms avg-rtt=24ms max-rtt=410ms

Something is not right.

I was using a Ruckus WAP before I started running the cAP AC at my office. I never got a notification of a disconnect UNTIL I moved over to using the Mikrotik cAP AC. The cAP is cap-man mode with local forwarding and client to client forwarding turned on.

Any ideas?

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So caps-man doesn’t consider the unit disconnected.

/caps-man registration-table> print stats
0 ;;; Digital Loggers
interface=cap2 ssid=“My SSID” mac-address=7C:E1:FF:02:35:85
tx-rate=“43.3Mbps-20MHz/1S/SGI” rx-rate=“65Mbps-20MHz/1S/SGI” rx-signal=-61
uptime=1d13h46m1s270ms packets=97101,114406 bytes=19246973,8207312
tx-rate-set=“CCK:1-11 OFDM:6-54 BW:1x SGI:1x HT:0-7” eap-identity=“”