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WifiWave2 support or not?

Sat Apr 29, 2023 6:03 pm

Hi!

I just go me some new CAPax devices and WAP ac BE and was wondering if the WAP ac BE does support WifiWave2 or not before I start installing them as I did notice that CAPax ONLY supports WifiWave2 so I will have to reconfigure/upgrade my whole setup if I want to use my new devices.

And an additional question is: is it really worth upgrading to the new version at this point or is it better I use the new devices in some one-off installations and wait... ... ...

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Re: WifiWave2 support or not?

Sat Apr 29, 2023 8:30 pm

Difficult situation now...

Lots of devices are being moved to ax version. Wap not yet.
Will it come ? Most likely yes.
When ? Nobody knows.
 
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Re: WifiWave2 support or not?

Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:35 am

so I will have to reconfigure/upgrade my whole setup if I want to use my new devices.
Why would you do that? Wifiwave2 will work nicely in combination with non-Wifiwave2, I'm running the same mix as you desribed. What I did was set up CAPsMAN on Wifiwave2 for the new ax devices and keep CAPsMAN without Wifiwave2 for the "legacy" cAPs and wAPs. Works like a charm, and beside the fact that there is a difference in UIs for the two CAPsMANs, they happily coexist.

Is it worth upgrading? I think it is. Signal coverage is improved right away after the swap, without making any optimizations.
 
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Re: WifiWave2 support or not?

Tue May 16, 2023 3:34 pm

Do you then have two controllers? One with legacy CAPsMAN and one with Wifiwave2? Or do you somehow have installed both on one controller (which, how)?
 
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Re: WifiWave2 support or not?

Tue May 16, 2023 3:45 pm

He clearly said he has 2 controllers...
It's not possible to put both functions on the same device.
 
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Re: WifiWave2 support or not?

Fri May 19, 2023 4:03 pm

I read the Smoerrebroeds' reply a couple of times and did not decipher that he has two controllers especially the last statement
Works like a charm, and beside the fact that there is a difference in UIs for the two CAPsMANs, they happily coexist.
confused me.
 
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Re: WifiWave2 support or not?

Fri May 19, 2023 4:09 pm

OK, maybe not 100% crystal clear, I give you that, but the small yet quite important mentioning of 2 different UIs should have been the indication it's on 2 separate devices.
It really is.
Capsman legacy and capsman wifiwave2 can not co-exist on the same device as it is now.
 
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Re: WifiWave2 support or not?

Sat May 27, 2023 10:07 pm

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, but yes, I'm using two RB5009 for running the two CAPsMAN controllers. However, there's no mixup or even disturbance between the two on the same network.

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