Miktorik Mesh WDS wont disconnect low signal links.

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I have a Mesh setup deployed with 3 nodes. Node A is the gateway, B is an intermediate node and C is a node farther away. Node C can see node B at -71 and it also can see Node A, the gateway at -84. Because the path directly from C to A is a 1 hop path verses going from C through B to A, a 2 hop path, C is sending all its data via the shorter crappy path and A is sending data to C the same way. This is resulting in slow connections for clients connected to node C.

I have set the access list signal level field to reject connections with a signal level of -80 or worse but this setting is
being ignored and the WDS is being connected anyway.

Am I missing something here or is this broken in 4.6?

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for WDS link creating you should use Connect list instead of Access list.

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That didnt do it.
I put an entry in the connect list for the mac in question, on both ends, the mac of the opposite side.
I set the signal level to -75..120 and the connection dropped for an instant and came right back.
I even unchecked the ‘connect’ box to no effect.

Next suggestion please…

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enable the debug logs ‘wireless,debug’ and check if it looks through the connect list.
Also If you use the connect-list, then I would suggest to disable the default-authentication on the AP.