Hi All
Is there anyway to use wireless wds mesh roaming with wired backbone on routerboard?

Any idea?

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Help!!!

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The (positive) impact of wds mesh on the wireless roaming is greatly exaggerated. In short: there is not any positive impact. Those are two completely independent technologies.

Roaming is always a function of client. Protocols exists that allow APs assist clients in roaming, but those are not supported in RouterOS as of now. From my experience, when building a wireless network using Mikrotik equipment, the smoothest roaming experience is achieved with CAPsMAN in Manager Forwarding mode. And that works just great with wired backbone. I also find it helpful to run individual APs with a somewhat reduced transmit power.

The (positive) impact of wds mesh on the wireless roaming is greatly exaggerated. In short: there is not any positive impact. Those are two completely independent technologies.

Roaming is always a function of client. Protocols exists that allow APs assist clients in roaming, but those are not supported in RouterOS as of now. From my experience, when building a wireless network using Mikrotik equipment, the smoothest roaming experience is achieved with CAPsMAN in Manager Forwarding mode. And that works just great with wired backbone. I also find it helpful to run individual APs with a somewhat reduced transmit power.

Thanks for reply

where is Manager Forwarding mode ?

The CAPsMAN is considered to be in Manager Forwarding Mode when Local Forwarding Mode is disabled. You can control forwarding mode by either local-forwarding option in the /caps-man datapath configuration or datapath.local-forwarding option in the master configuration profile (with the latter taking precedence over the former).

The CAPsMAN is considered to be in Manager Forwarding Mode when Local Forwarding Mode is disabled. You can control forwarding mode by either local-forwarding option in the /caps-man datapath configuration or datapath.local-forwarding option in the master configuration profile (with the latter taking precedence over the former).

Thanks I try it and reporting the result.
for now I run HOTSPOT on RB2011 Ether1 and making ether2 and ether3 to master port of the ether1 and wiring 2 APs to ether2 and ether3 on RB2011 then running WDS Dynamic Mesh on APs for now roaming performance Is good but need trying the Capsman