I am trying to design a standard configuration for several large apartment complexes.

I'm estimating 6 or 7 of these BH/AP clusters to cover each property.

Is this crazy? Somebody please stop me before I run off a cliff



THANK YOU!

Hey people,

This is a sincere request for help. I am a newbie to ROS, but I have successfully installed and have been operating an apartment hotspot since November 2009, and I'm seeing a 26% return on investment using MikroTik RB433AH (x3) in a WDS configuration.

Now I am trying to do it smarter and cheaper and bigger. But I don't know if these 411's can be connected as I've shown in the diagram. It seems to me that if I bridge the lan port to the wlan port and then plug them all into the same switch that it should work.

But I want to be sure before I spend a lot of money.

Please just say "Yes, this will work," or "No, this will not work."

Thanks again, and I hope to someday be able to help other newbies to the black art of 802.11.

Hank

you might nave interference problems if you put those AP-s too close to eachother.

I don't see any bridged wireless cards in station mode so it should work. I would personally put the backhaul in a ptp configuration with a different range and route the traffic but to each his own.

KillerOPS, thanks for pointing out the interference issue. To be honest, I was not taking that into account and must remember to use channels 1, 6, and 11 and pay attention to what I'm doing.

G-lox, that does sound like a better way to do things. Somewhere I heard that "friends don't let friends bridge when they can route." Being a newbie though, I don't understand what I would do differently to set this up in point-to-point mode. But I will keep reading and studying.

Best regards to all!

p.s. The AP's are to be mounted on or near corners of the building. Most will be separated by 100'. Patch antennas are inside the illustrated StationBox enclosures.

It seems to me that if I bridge the lan port to the wlan port and then plug them all into the same switch that it should work.

I don't think that works properly.
You would be better offer doing very basic NAT/DHCP routing on each AP.