im having issues with point to point bridging a wndap350 and wndap360.

background:

we have a very long house, with lots of stuff apparently blocking wifi. ive been using a wndap350 for access on one end of the house, and a wpn824 for access on different channel etc. at the other end (with the two units connected by ethernet). the coverage works fine, but the wpn824 radio portion dies periodically, about once a month or so. i used to have a wnr854 but that radio died almost once a week, so we tossed it.

to alleviate this issue, i decided to add a wndap360, and bridge it to the wndap350, to allow 802.11gn and 802.11an throughout the house. this gives me the option of locating the wndap360 upstairs, where it is impossible to route ethernet. then the height should give us pretty good coverage in the house.

problem

i bridged using 2.4 gzh, and it seemed to work fine, but laptop drops the connection to the an/5gz radio, something it didnt do before adding the wndap360. i wasnt sure if i needed to also bridge using 5gz, so i bridged the 5gzh also and that crashed the system.

the reason i tried linking both was to ensure i had both 2.4 and 5ghz signals thoughout the house, since it kept disconnecting.

i did make sure the ssids/password/channels were the same on both units for both bands.

and i read all the posted materials in the stickys, but none addressed this issue.

questions;

1) from my testing, i assume you only bridge the units with a single protocol, and then the other protocol will be sharable? but im not sure about this, because when bridging there is an option "Enable Wireless Client Association". maybe this isnt necessary on the non bridged radio?

2) when rogue ap detection was enabled on 5gz the computer disconnected periodically, even though i have the latest laptop/wifi card (lenovo t420s with intel centrino ultimate-n 6300 agn). perhaps this is firmware problems, i dont know. any ideas here?

3) would i be better off bridging using 802.11An? or does it really matter all that much.

thanks.

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