How to create roaming with RB5009UPr+S+IN and 2xCAP AX

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Dears,

I’ve just bought the Great RB5009UPr+S+IN Router (firmware 7.13 stable) and two (2) CAP AX access points.
Ceiling mounted CAP AX both devices are connected by UTP (PoE) cables to the router.

Premises are like 15 meters long with some concrete partitions. The aim is to place CAP AX wireless devices in two different places, controlled by RB5009UP router with roaming enabled to improve wireless connections and simplify life for (like 5-10) users.

No switch between - direct UTP connection with PoE

No VLANs or other “advanced stuff”. One SSID for 2.4 GHZ, another SSID - for 5 GHZ.

Does anyone has by great chance any suggestions and sample config to “simplify my life” please how to configure Router and what to configure on CapAX?

Any detailed responses would be very much appreciated!

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Personal view:
unless you have a real good reason to have 2.4GHz and 5GHz separate, use the same SSID across.
Makes it easier for your clients to roam.

You can have multiple SSIDs on the same radio, in case you did not know yet.

Easiest:
set both cap AX to the same SSID (make sure though radio frequencies do not overlap). Client devices will hang on to radio until no longer possible and then they will move over if the other radio is in range (some clients do this earlier, some client devices really hang on the cliff until they really fall down :confused: )
There might be some drops in connection when clients hop to next radio (can be in order of 2 or 3 seconds, sometimes more).

Optimal:
capsman on RB5009, both cAP AX devices in CAPS mode.
All configuration and controlling is done on RB5009 then.
See here for more ideas (CLI instructions but should be clear enough to translate to Winbox/Webfig).
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WiFi#WiFi-WiFiCAPsMAN

If you enable Fast Transition (which is shown in linked example), roaming will be almost seamless.

For REFERENCE (old material but good to get a better understanding of capsman as a concept):
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1409149

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Thank You very much! Much appreciated! I will try to configure “all of these” and in case of any troubles will kindly come back again here :slight_smile: