Bridging both SSID's selecting different radios in MR500

[ryangrimes]

I'm demoing two MR500's for a client and am wondering if we could use SSID 1 and 2 simultaneously. What I'd like to do is set SSID 1 to 2.4 Ghz "N" and SSID 2 for 5 Ghz "N" with both SSID's bridged to the LAN. We want to segregate mobile phone traffic (iPhones, iPads, etc) from computer traffic (mobile computers in a school or business). Our current vendor, Meraki, does this rather easily. If we want to deploy MR500's when they leave beta, we need this feature.

Thanks.

[marek]

If you want to bridge both SSIDs to the LAN you'll need VLAN tagging, right ? Looks like ticket #23 ?

[ryangrimes]

It does sound like that ticket. VLAN tagging would be great as well, but it's not as needed as bridging for both SSID's

[marek]

No VLAN tagging needed, how so ? If you bridge both SSIDs to the same LAN then you have no separation - both appear to be in the same network, hence it does not bring any benefit ...

[ryangrimes]

Well, we usually bridge on different radios for speed increases for laptops vs. ipads. VLAN tagging should be in there as well at times.

[marek]

If some could connect to 2.4GHz and others to 5GHz it might bring you some benefit but the mr500 5GHz can only do one thing at a time: either mesh or clients, not both. That is a wifi driver limitation ...

[ryangrimes]

Okay, that's good to know. If we could bridge both SSID's with vlan tagging that should do what we're looking for.

[ryangrimes]

Question, when you say "mesh or clients" what does that mean?

[marek]

Basically, there are 2 wireless modes:

mesh => one router uses another router to get internet access (router to router connection)

clients => consumer device (like notebooks / tablets / smartphones / etc) connection to the router

The 5Ghz wifi only supports one of these 2 at a time.

[ryangrimes]

Okay, I understand. We want to use these mostly with hard wired homeruns to a PoE Switch for clients. We don't do a ton of mesh stuff, just want distributed wireless coverage.

Thanks for all your hard work.

[ryangrimes]

How can I force 5Ghz mode on an MR500? I want to test these out in 5Ghz mode but cannot see where to change this.

[marek]

I don't understand the question. Force 5GHz mode ?

[ryangrimes]

Sorry, you say above that the 5Ghz mode supports clients or mesh. Since I want a setup to only support clients, can I force the MR500's into 5Ghz mode? We have a Meraki setup at a client and here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about.

[marek]

Unfortunately, we don't have a similar option at this point. The 5GHz is reserved for the mesh but this might change later.

[amog2011]

I don't understand the question. Force 5GHz mode ?

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