Just about at my wit's end trying to figure this out: I Have a pair of XT9's connected via wired backhaul AiMesh at opposite ends of the house (1 downstairs + 1 up 2 flights of stairs.) and am utilising the 5GHz-2 band to connect my wireless device (macbook pro) as that is what is giving me the most stable/fastest speeds.
The problem is the macbook doesn't seem to want to roam between the currently connected node and main router and visa-versa. I must always manually reconnect in order to get it to switch. I have read up about Macs being rather sticky and OSX not searching for a new access point until the current connection hits an RSSI threshold of -75dBm. Well I am sitting here with between -80 and -83 dBm connected to the main router downstairs and it still will not switch to the node upstairs which is right next to me with -30ish RSSI. The main router and node could not be further apart as they are.
Roaming seems to work pretty well from what I can tell when utilising the 2.4GHz and 5GHz-1 bands at the cost of decreased stability/speed performance. Not ideal.
On the 5GHz-2 band I have:
Adjusted roaming assistant to varying values from -40 to -70
Disabled Roaming assistant completely
Diasabled Universal beamforming
Adjusted tx power levels all the way through from Performance down to power saving
Tested a variety of different bandwith and control channel settings.
I simply cannot seem to get it to roam correctly. Any help or advice?
The problem is the macbook doesn't seem to want to roam between the currently connected node and main router and visa-versa. I must always manually reconnect in order to get it to switch. I have read up about Macs being rather sticky and OSX not searching for a new access point until the current connection hits an RSSI threshold of -75dBm. Well I am sitting here with between -80 and -83 dBm connected to the main router downstairs and it still will not switch to the node upstairs which is right next to me with -30ish RSSI. The main router and node could not be further apart as they are.
Roaming seems to work pretty well from what I can tell when utilising the 2.4GHz and 5GHz-1 bands at the cost of decreased stability/speed performance. Not ideal.
On the 5GHz-2 band I have:
Adjusted roaming assistant to varying values from -40 to -70
Disabled Roaming assistant completely
Diasabled Universal beamforming
Adjusted tx power levels all the way through from Performance down to power saving
Tested a variety of different bandwith and control channel settings.
I simply cannot seem to get it to roam correctly. Any help or advice?