As you can see on this screenshot, this AP has a strange behavior. It’s a basebox 5, with wlan1 and ether1 bridged, and wlan1 is in ap bridge mode with wds dynamic enabled, and it has 15 wds clients connected.
The strange behavior is the packet multiplication: I would expect that all traffic entering from ether1 (RX) goes ejected from wlan1 (TX), and viceversa.
But it isn’t.
There is about 17Mbps entering and 105Mbps exiting, and I noticed that those 105Mbps Tx are almost equally distributed among the stations, 7Mbps each!
So, what’s the source of this enormous traffic?
Is there any way to investigate on it and drop it?
Thanks
Remember in this case,you are using WDS so you will be increasing frames from Broadcast, control , collisions, etc. If normally in wireless communications you have a lot, imagine WDS with 15 devices.
So, do you thinks that WDS is the only responsible of all this >100Mbps traffic not really used by clients? With only 15 clients? Because it will mean that WDS is almost unusable.
That’s right. WDS have some advantages, but these are the disadvantages.
You can tuning your deployment with mesh portal using HWMP+ as layer 2 selecting path.