Roaming Help

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi All,

I have a 3 story building with an access point on each floor but roaming between APs is very slow and reconnect is also bad as in 2-3 sec where you can clearly see the is no wireless while the devices revert to cellular connection, could any one offer any tip or pointer for a configuration like this.

i’ve attached images of how each access point is configured (identical on all 3).

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks
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Try playing with Connect List/Access List to force a disassociation quicker, i.e. some devices will try hold the existing connection as long as possible, rather than actively scanning for a better closer AP (which uses more battery). What some people do is put a cutoff at say -70db to force the client off that AP and search for a new one, the drawback is if no AP is within range after the cut-off then you may be shortening your own distance, so its a bit of a give and take to fine-tune it to your boundaries, and may require a couple extra AP’s to spread the signal.

Thats one take on it anyways.

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@joegoldman thanks this seems to have worked really well, i now get disconnected really quick when roaming and the device reconnect to the nearest AP quiet quickly.

I tested this by roaming between APs whilst making a VoIP call over wireless and there was barley a stutter when switching.

Thanks again great advice!

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Try dialing back the transmit power rather than kicking off users below a certain limit.

Seeing as you have 3 APs I’d suggest using CAPSMAN with local forwarding and client to client forwarding on rather than 3 lone APs.

You can thank me later.

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Ive not used CAPSMAN before is there any good cases studies \ documentation for it?

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There’s the Wiki of course:
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CAPsMAN

and loads of examples. For instance:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=capsman