There is a guide to set up WiFi repeaters using one band for client access and one band for backhaul:
Unfortunately, this guide was written for the wifi-qcom (WiFi 6) driver. And I have a couple of cAP ACs that only work with the wifi-qcom-ac driver. And I am currently unable to get the (simple) instructions from the guide to work on the ac driver (the backhaul WiFi interface stays Inactive when setting the configuration.mode to either station-bridge or station-pseudobridge).
Does anybody know of a guide or is kind enough to post their own instructions on how to set up a repeater on cAP ACs using 1 band for client traffic and 1 for backhaul?
Wifi-qcom-ac and wifi-qcom are identical as far as setup is concerned.
There are some subtle (yet important) differences in the way those drivers handle VLANs, spectral scan, VLAN via Capsman, … but other then that, there should be no difference.
Obviously you should take into account any physical properties of those devices.
E.g. one difference you may run into is that for most (but not all !!) AX devices wifi1 = 5GHz.
On cAP AC that’s wifi2. wifi1 = 2Ghz.
(wAP AX also has wifi1 = 2GHz, wifi2 = 5GHz)
You are absolutely right, it works just fine. After studying the image below (part of the WiFi repeater article), I noticed my mistake. On the main router, I had set configuration.mode to station-bridge for the backhaul. It should be set to ap instead.
