Recently i was testing some new equipment from Mikrotik we’ve got here, and tried to setup a wireless configuration with “station wds” mode. The configuration looks like this: AP1 ← wireless-link → Client1. The AP1 is configured in ap-bridge mode with static wds, and the Client1 is configured in station wds mode. When I’m testing everything at home, everything works perfectly, just as I want it to, but when I try to apply such configuration to my main AP, weird things happen. The client side registration table shows that no packets are received from the AP side, even if it says that it’s successfully connected, the RX rate never rises above 1mbps, and on the AP: in status tab (registration table entry) it shows that no packets are sent nor received, the RX/TX rate is always 1mbps, there are no errors in the log.
The differences between test and real AP’s are the following:
on test AP I use 2.4G mode and in main AP - 5GHz,
on test AP I use PCMCIA SMC wifi card with AR5213 is used and in real AP - miniPCI Compex WMP54AG with AR5413.
The client-side is Routerboard 133c with R52.
I believe that the problem isn’t in software configuration, because the configs in working and not working AP’s are identical, and on the client side the only thing that changes is frequency.. (I use the same routerboard to connect to the test AP and the main one).
By the way, the connection between my main AP and that client-side routerboard is possible in WDS Slave mode and works fine.
Currently i’m thinking that maybe somehow my wireless NIC could be responsible for such a behavior, but i’m not sure, so before changing it i would like to know if it’s worth to do that. I don’t believe that it’s the frequency here that causes such a problem. So i was wondering if anyone had a similar problem or maybe know of a solution?