I have a small hotel and we had a pretty limited wifi range with two linksys routers. However, the network would become unstable and kick off all non-hardwired users after 30 or so clients connected. I purchased a RB450G and a 3pack of Unifi APs. The AP’s work fine, they are all configured under the network controller on my main check-in desk. However, I still get an unstable network after about 2 days of use. I checked the switch’s DHCP leases and there are only 56 clients. I thought the OS and router would be able to handle this traffic?
My setup is as follows:
Port 1 - Arris business modem
Port 2 - Empty unless I’m using winbox via my check-in desktop
Port 3 - Unifi AP1
Port 4 - Unifi AP2
Port 5 - Unifi AP3 (currently disconnected)
My current Adresses setup looks like this:
Should I be doing something else in order to get my network more stable? All other options (aside from time and password) are default. The only thing I changed was the address list.
I am currently doing a upgrade to the latest RouterOS version. Hope it does something to improve my network.
The router is more than able to handle a network like that very well, we have the standard 450’s running 200 room hotels without an issue. You haven’t supplied enough information for people to be much help though. There are tons of factors that can cause a network to become unstable, all we know is that you have a 450G, Unifi access points, and some unnamed switch. What kind and brand and model is the switch?
Have you narrowed down what device needs to be rebooted to get it working again after it is unstable? The router, the switch, the access points, the modem? Any one of those devices could be the source of the problem, and troubleshooting needs to happen to figure out exactly where the problem is. Just power cycling everything all at once doesn’t do much good, in a situation like this, doing it one piece at a time and waiting to see if that fixes the issue before moving on is much more useful. Also screen shots are extremely poor ways of relaying information about your setup, they never contain the level of detail that is useful for people to really help. A text export of the relevant parts of the configuration are always more useful. Have you isolated the circumstances of when the network becomes unstable?
