Bridge setup
I am setting up a Wifi bridge between 8 total buildings - Just want to know if this model or the EAP215 supports 1 master with 7 slaves. Since its wifi are they direct line of site?
3 buildings won't have LOS to the main building hence the WIFI bridge instead of a point to point system.
THe network will only be transmitting security camera's.
I can't find any literature about adding more slave or if they repeat similar to a mesh.
Only 4 Sub EAPs can be added at most:
And we can't build a string mesh network with EAP Bridge models like below.
EAP bridge1))) ((((EAP bridge 2))) (((EAP bridge 3
Only 4 Sub EAPs can be added at most:
And we can't build a string mesh network with EAP Bridge models like below.
EAP bridge1))) ((((EAP bridge 2))) (((EAP bridge 3
Thank you
Do they need LOS? or Could i do somethink like this - I normally just build ubuquiti PTP but the cost is going to be to much for the client, so trying an alternate solution
Buildings 4,5,6,7 Connected to Bridge 1 -- 13- 4k camera's
Buildings 1,2,3 Connected to Bridge 2 -- 13- 4k camera's
So none of the units will have any personal wifi APs? If everyone is going to have 5G wifi hotspots, or there is a common property Wifi, then you really need to channel manage the 5.8G channels being used (and keep the most powerful ones for your long-haul bridges).
Here's my initial thinking, basically, for performance reasons, you really want to avoid more than 2 hops, and ideally 2 neighbours (I know it doesn't sound much like a mesh, but it's physics). You also don't want aggregating nodes (ie 4+ cameras) being RF blind from each other, for instance 3-1 or 4-6 for instance...this leads to contention over the shared channel and causes a lot of retransmits (killing your bandwidth and causing video glitches). In the below, the sub-bridge on Bldg3 will have the aggregate of 10 cameras which will be fighting for timeslots with the 7 cameras on buildings 4&5, if this doesn't work in practice you can add a new main-bridge on the Main building to feed the bottom end sub-bridge which serves the 6 cameras and 2 sub-bridge nodes for 6&7 (ie extend black arrow back to Main bldg as its own link). It might also make more sense to pivot Bldg 5 from the Green mesh to the Blue mesh (by way of lowest point of Bld 6 ), but I generally find fewer hops is better in general.
Curious to see how this turns out, and I'd strongly suggest a pilot first, say Main,1&2 (orange) to validate.
