Need help with network design for large ranch
Need help with network design for large ranch
I used to consider myself pretty up on networking design and technology 30 years ago, but my skills have clearly atrophied :( Thus a series of question that I hope will not annoy too much.
I am installing an outdoor wifi network on a large (50 acre or so) rural site that is quite mountainous and forested.
The site basically has two "halves", separated by a forested gully.
I want to use EAP-225 Outdoor AP's on each half (likely 3-4 on each half), some hardwired to each other and some in Mesh mode, and to connect the two halves using CPE-210's. I chose 2.4 GhZ for superior penetration of the foliage, and so far that seems to be proving out. I have verified that the CPE-210's can connect over the roughly 1/4 mile link between the two "halves."
My question is how best to configure the various AP's. In a perfect world, I would like a single SSID and a single IP namespace across the entire property.
Do I put one CPE in AP mode and the other in client Mode? I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work :( (where "work" is defined as allowing connectivity across the link - they connect just fine, but the WAN section of the client is blank).
Using the same SSID that I use on my EAP-225's that devices connect to?
Just assign the same SSID to each EAP-225 and give each one a unique static IP address?
How do I configure the EAP-225's into mesh mode?
Thanks much!
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"Antenna beam width of a CPE210 is 65º H / 35º E which would require mounting the remote CPEs ~127m apart to avoid interferences over a distance of 100m. It's the remote CPE, which will intefere with one of the local CPEs (resp. the local CPE, which interferes with one of the remote CPEs), but not the two CPEs at the same location."
Ha! Good point. I had forgotten about the distal CPE "shouting back."
-Jonathan
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