At house in Vineyard i use neighbours WiFi as a uplink. Connected to it with WapAX.
WapAX as WiFi client, doing it’s own routing, tunneling and everything else and also acts as AP. Now i would like to set up some kind of failover if neigbour’s wifi goes down (power cut or simmilar issues).
Is it possible to somehow add failover to another WiFi as a client, when primary WiFi goes down and then periodicaly check when primary wifi goes back up to reconnect to it?
It would probably be easiest with LTE enabled devices but i would rather just use some USB LTE stick, that i can power up in such cases and everything else restores automatically.
Either you would have to “sacrifice” the second antenna to connect to another AP OR you could connect a router with a USB port to one of the wAP ax’s Ethernet ports. Either way, you would have to use something like Netwatch to trigger the failover to the backup and the fallback to the primary WiFi, when it comes back up
Ok, i will try to search in this direction. I think that in previus WiFi drivers there was such an option, to add more networks to connect to, but it’s now gone.
You can do something similar with access list under wave2.
I toyed with it somewhere last year but I’m sure more details can be found when you search for it here.
It allows to specify SSIDs to connect to and the first one it finds, it will connect to.
Until that’s not possible anymore, then it moves to the next one.
End of the list, move back up and repeat.
The documentation talks about this feature in the context of AP mode, I’m curious if it works the same way in client mode. My guess is you would want to create two rules, one with your primary SSID, one with the secondary.