WDS problem, need help please...

RouterOS Wireless Networking
1

Hello, i have the digram in the picture,
all AP bridge with WDS enabled, same channel.

now what happens is, when the 3 APs are running, it seems that it’s very hard to log at them, and the ping to gateway 10.0.0.1 gives a lot of request time out.
when i switch any of the 2 APs off, (in the bottom of the graph) the ping to the gateway is normal <1ms.

it seems that the network become totally unstable with the 3rd WDS AP.
is this normal, am i missing something?

please let me know.

thanks alot in adnace.
WDS graph.jpg

2

Looks like you have a loop going.
I don’t think the bottom two APs need a WDS link between them.

3

how can i make the 2 access points at the bottom act like AP and at the same time make them bridge (to pass the mac address for clients for authentication etc..) ?

thanks.

4

Make sure your bridge has RSTP enabled.

5

enable RSTP on all APs?

6

Yes