Permanent roaming between 3 APs

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hello

I have a building with 7 floors, 1 AP per floor, even floors have AP at the left, odd floors have AP at the right. Don’t ask me why, it was cabled like this when we came :slight_smile:
topology.png
I have attached a PNG with the topology, as you can see there is a client, in a particular place, which “sees” 3 APs at roughly the same level, between -75dbM and -85dBm. Every 2-3 minutes, the client device decides to switch AP probably because of low signal, so it keeps disconnecting/reconnecting, giving the customer a poor wifi experience.

Does anyone have an advice to “stick the customer to the same AP” , except adding other APs ?

2

Put mac address of client in access list.
Ban mac addres on other AP’s

3

Thanks, i tried this but it’s worse, as the client devices disconnects by itself, tries to reconnect to another AP and gets refused. So the “roaming” time is much much bigger, like 1 minute before the client finally decides to come back to the “right” AP

4

-85 is bad enough that a device will often choose to roam.

Is this device 5G compatible? Get a wAP AC and turn off the 2.4 radio. Find a channel not near the other APs. Place this new wAP proximal to this device. Balance your levels.

5

Any reason you can’t bridge all the APs? If they’re all in the same broadcast domain, the roaming should be seamless.

6

Gotsprings: Doesn’t 5G have lower range than 2.4G ? So if i have -85 in 2.4 i’ll get like -90 in 5G

R1CH: they are bridged.. but the roaming time is not seamless, the customer lives it like permanent disconnects-reconnects

7

You will have to improve your wireless signals
If your connection are always good, between -50 till -70 then you will not have any issues.

8

Set the lowest roaming aggressiveness level in the client’s driver settings. If no go, put there more APs.

9

only true fix is to add more APs

you could back haul them wirelessly with 5ghz and then serve the clients with 2.4