2018-01-04 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Repeater over AP on grase hotspot

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From: Drazen Zuvela <dr***a@gmail.com>
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UTC Datetime: 2018-01-04 03:55:32 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 11:55:32 +0100

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Sorry Bob, my previous post was addressed to you by mistake. It is for
Gerard actually.
Regards
Dražen

2018-01-04 7:52 GMT+01:00 Bob Hunt <bo***2@gmail.com>:

> Hi Gerard,
>
> My Grase setup works fine in a rural village situation, with around 20
> nodes running "secn" mesh firmware downloaded from
> https://villagetelco.org, on Ubiquiti and TP-Link atheros devices.  The
> site also has a webstore with ready to use mesh devices available. As Tim
> mentioned, the secret is having the connections handled on layer 2 (mac
> address layer), which this mesh setup does.  There are also other mesh
> devices around but this is the only one I have any experience with.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob
>
> Bob Hunt
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> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Gerard Pacete <ge***1@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 9:27:43 AM UTC+8, bob.hunt.52 wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Gerard,
>>>
>>> This may be the same problem that I encountered using Grase over my mesh
>>> network. The solution was to setup the mac addresses of all the repeater
>>> nodes with computer accounts on the Grase server, so that Grase allows
>>> traffic from those nodes.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Bob,
>> Glad to see response that fast, i tried ur idea just now and it didnt
>> work as well. Thanks by the way.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 9:34:27 AM UTC+8, timwhite88 wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Gerard
>>>
>>> This is normally an issue with how the repeater functions. The
>>> repeater is a "client" on the Wifi network, and all the clients "hide"
>>> behind the 1 client. (Like NAT). You need WDS or similar, to be able
>>> to get proper Layer 2 over the Wifi. Often this means you'll need a
>>> WiFi AP that is compatible with the repeater, so that they can do the
>>> correct WDS that is required.
>>>
>>> Any chance you can run a cable to each extra AP? That doesn't required
>>> compatible Wifi AP and repeater, as you just have multiple AP's with
>>> the same SSID and the clients will "roam" between them when the signal
>>> strength drops.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Tim,
>> First of all, thank you very much. Understand. Now we are getting into
>> option to wire multiple APs. It will be quite a bit difficult though look
>> like this is the easier way as we tried several repeaters and routers and
>> we cannot get to work even one repeater up. :(
>> We have limited budget too that i cant buy more devices to test.
>> Anyway, thank you again and more power!
>>
>>
>> - Gerard
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