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WNDAP660 Connectivity Issues
I'll try to keep this story as short as possible. I run a small office and about two years ago I upgraded an older netgear G only access point to a newer WN203. All was well for about a year. Then I...
So since the firmware upgrade and a factory reset this has been working.
Esaym,
I'm interested in the Mikrotik but there are 3 features of the Netgear that I really would like to have:
1) POE support. Both of my Access Points are sited away from power so I am using the PoE feature to power them.
2) VLAN I have segregated my personal traffic totally from Guest traffic using the VLAN feature on the WAP which I then carry over the network to my router on an isolated VLAN,
3) SNMP monitoring. I heavily used an snmp network monitor to check my network devices so snmp support is a must.
Are these supported on th Microtik?
Regards
David
SNMP and POE support is standard. You can have a different vlan tag for each interface. But if you wanted to have two different ssids both with different vlan tags but both on the same interface, you would have to go to the wireless interface menu, and then select "Add New" and under type you would want "Virtual". Or from the command line, something like:
"interface wireless add mode=ap-bridge master-interface=wlan1 vlan-id=1 ssid=guest security-profile=profile1"
If you do go the mikrotik route, and you are not too good with linux networking, you'll probably want to take a back up of the initial config first. Messing with firewall rules and setting IPs, you'll probably end up losing connectivity to it over IP. But the windows config tool "winbox" or something like that can connect to it via mac address so you shouldn't be able to completely brick it and lock yourself out (speaking from experience :smileyvery-happy: )
So far my only complaint is that the WMM power save stuff isn't as good as most other consumer grade stuff. Usually my cell phone only looses about 2% battery charge over night. Now it is loosing about 10%. But I can live with it.
Esaym,
Many thanks. I found a few reviews for the mikrotik and they were very complimentary saying it's great for Apple devices, never locks up, basically a solid device. Obviously if I knew this before I would definitely have bought the Microtik but right now I have a solution that works. I dont have the user load that requires me to have the AMPDU set and the device has actually been stable for weeks on end. So I'm not happy that I paid £200 for a an 802.11g WAP but it works and I am using some of the enterprise features. Right now I cannot see why anyone would buy the new WAC series like the WAC510 when there are users like us with an issue with wireless that has been oustanding for years. They must be using the same microcode. Anyway thanks for your help in diagnosing my problem. Let's hope Netgear inject some resources into clearing down the issues with the WNDAP660 to lift their brand.
Regards
David
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