Hellou
we are in the process of choosing wifi device to be acting as a client. So i ve picked up RBD52G-5HacD2HnD. Setup it to connect to wifi thats being run by unifi and another test ground is run by ruckus. They consis of 3 aps in triangle each about 10m away and there are rack shelfs.
Both of which support roaming of the wireless clients.
As far as i ve read , mikrotik (client) does not support the handover between ap devices , and as a client he needs to be set to do the roaming himself. Which was enabled and disabled AP roaming on both testing grounds - this proven to be right call , cause when tested the other way (mikrotik not doing roaming but leaving it to aps , roam or rather rude disconnect and reconnect took 7 seconds)
So the mikrotik client is being driven around on a robot and when he roams he roams according to the logs in 00 or 01 seconds. Which is good.
However before he even starts to roam (a assume -70 signal is its limit) the ping is going from 5-10ms to 50 , 100 , 300 , 400. This state is taking about 7 - 9 seconds. After that he roams (00 to 01 second according to the log).
What is troubelling is that period before roam. We are running tests against rabbit server and it seems for him that "increasing latency" period is dead end for him. As the time between sent message and read those same message goes in seconds (like 7-8 sometimes 9 seconds ).
I did not found any mechanism to roam faster, i ve increased the 5ghz datarate from 6 to 12mbps as its minimum , and that did not helped - cause i wanted him to start roaming faster / sooner.
Or maybe i m using wrong device all together. Any recommendadtions , maybe tips ?
Thank you.