I have read a lot of posts about (seamless) roaming wireless, but most are old. I want to use 6 APs with CAPsMAN and ensure that roaming works as well as possible. How?

Has anybody experience with it? kick a client at -80dBm is not an option.

Go with Aruba but not mikrotik, solved you issue.

then kick it at 85-86dbm :laughing: disabling lower datarates can help to force client device to roam fine tune tx power on accesspoint can help too proper overlapped coverage between accesspoints help too remember roaming is very client dependent

I will try that. There are many places with no overlap (long corridor) and that I would not make worse. Aruba or better said HP is in a different league. I mostly have just small installations of up to 10 AP I’m going to take a closer look at Ubiquiti combined with Mikrotik (Hotspot, VLAN). Can Ub…

i suggest you to take a tour in ubiquiti forums before buying, some time ago i read about some issues about this topic, better check that issues has been solved before buying

Dear angboontiong, why you suggest Aruba and not Mikrotik? Wich is your experience? I’m searching some experience with medium large installations with mikrotik and capsman indoor. My best regards

In my own experience (got several RBs in my home) if you set them up with CAPsMANv2 (wireless-cm2) and set all of them to the same frequency/ssid/key (just the exact same provisioning profile), the devices freely roam on their own (my iPhone very quickly swaps access points when I move through my ho…

using with 144 capsman interfaces working like a charm. You can fine tunning roaming using accest lists

(seamless) roaming wireless / CAPsMAN

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juanvi February 1, 2016, 10:32am 16

do you mean to set the signal threshold ???

Yes, see:

http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/capsman-access-list/77845/1