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I have a couple of mesh nodes that I keep running all the time at home. I have a few more that I get out once a year to help with communications at an event in a remote location. A couple of these others run in mesh AP mode to make it easier to connect to the network from tablets and phones. This week I connected and powered up all these nodes to prepare for the event next week. The mesh nodes came up and connected just fine. But neither of my mesh AP units appear to be working correctly. If I do a wifi scan from a non-mesh device (like a Windows laptop) sometimes I don't even see the mesh AP. When I do see it, I'm unable to connect to it. I don't think it's a hardware fault, because it's unlikely that both of them would fail at the same time. And aside from the AP connectivity issue, they appear to be running fine. I can connect to them at 172.27.0.2 and everything looks normal. My next thought was that I'd never used them in mesh AP mode since upgrading to BBHN 3.1.0. So I downgraded one of them to 3.0.0 and then to 1.0.0, but I still have the same problem. Then I thought maybe it was an issue with Windows 10, since that what was running on the laptop I was trying to connect with and I'd never used Windows 10 before to connect to a mesh AP. But I tried it with an Android phone and with a Linux PC and I get the same problem; either the mesh AP can't be seen or I can see it but can't connect to it. This makes me think I've just forgotten something about how this mode works and I'm not connecting things properly. I'm connecting an Ethernet cable between one of the LAN ports on the mesh AP and one of the LAN ports on a regular mesh node. That's the correct connectivity, isn't it? By the way, these are all WRT54G's. Any suggestions for anything else I could check or try? Thanks, N7EGO |
