Multiple WDS slaves connected to each other

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I’ve been playing with this mode (for whatever reason haven’t until now) and am curious if, in a static-wds network, if multiple wds slaves connected to each other will cause any problems? I have tested it, and it seems to work fine - change the freq on the main AP and all other will switch to it…very handy :sunglasses: For example, with 3 APs, all running in static wds mode with the wds addresses entered manually on each AP, I’ve got the following test setup:

Network ---- [ AP1 = ap-bridge] ← - → [AP2 = wds-slave] ← - → [AP3 = wds-slave]

Again, this works fine…is this a proper configuration and is it as reliable as using mode=ap-bridge for all APs? Any reasons why this might be a bad idea? Thanks.

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Hello? Anyone? It would be really nice if someone from Mikrotik could acknowledge this as it is a feature that is really unexplained other than the breif description. I’d like to use this but want to make sure it’s not intended to be a “station” vs a reapeater that can be unlimited in the way a standard wds ap-bridge is. Please enlighten me :slight_smile:

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I had a configuration similar to this except the master was another brand WDS - 2 chained wds slaves worked fine, except the master radio to radio #3 still got a -95 signal, so I had to do static WDS instead of dynamic so it wouldn’t cause occasional loops. #2 to #3 was about -58, and #1 to #2 was about -65.