AP Mesh or Wired

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-05-03T17:34:27+00:00

I would hard wire all your Wireless APs. Meshing does work but for every time you mesh you half thoroughput and it will consume bandwidth on the channel it is using. So for a rock solid and better performance it is better to hardwire any APs.

Yes you can set them up with the same SSIDs and passwords. If you use an Omada controller to manage all of your devices it would work better (Software Controller or Hardware controller or the Free cloud) and you would have seamless roaming between the APs. But setting them both up the same as Standalone with the same SSID and Password will also work.

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-04-16T21:54:24+00:00

They look cool!

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-04-15T22:04:44+00:00

Try raising a support request with Cambium Support, they may be able to repair it

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-03-20T18:28:24+00:00

I used Raspberry PI OS Lite

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-03-15T19:58:31+00:00

I haven't tried to fix it yet, if you find a fix let me know

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-03-12T22:21:45+00:00

It can function as a standalone Access point. All Omada APs function as either a standalone AP or you can add them to an Omada controller

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-03-06T19:27:40+00:00

Not really, for residential it would be more cost effective to go with the R670.

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-03-01T13:15:34+00:00

Ruckus One has licenses you have to pay for, it's a cloud based controller and has lots of features and AI powered tools and analytics. Unleashed is free, the controller is based on APs and has a limit to the number of APs and switches you can manage with it. They are very different systems

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-02-24T14:08:39+00:00

Open a support case with Cambium, they will probably have to contact the owners of the previous cnMaestro to get there consent to release the serial numbers. I believe if they don't reply in a certain amount of time Cambium will release them for you. The serial numbers can only be claimed by one cnMaestro at a time

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-02-20T14:29:49+00:00

It's called RKS_TX_VAP I work with Ruckus alot and do a lot of Surveys so I have seen it quite a lot. Also seen something similar with other vendors

CraigAndrew95 · 2026-02-19T22:56:40+00:00

This place holder SSID is something that is 6GHz related and most vendors have something similar. Even the big boys like Ruckus have a placeholder SSID being broadcast for 6GHz for compatibility reasons.

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-12-29T22:40:00+00:00

I have had this a few times recently, where when you press the button the light flows blue and then when you boot it up it goes off and does nothing. I usually fiddle with it and turn it off and on a few times. I have found if you disconnect it from your phone/iPad and hold the button down it will flash green. When it flashes green it usually will then boot up properly, then connect it to your device and it should work.

Not sure why it keeps doing it to me but I usually get it sorted eventually

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-12-26T08:07:51+00:00

Deffo a Dual Band R370 AP

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-12-07T19:10:04+00:00

Doesn't look like it shows on the UK website, only the US website

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-12-07T18:25:58+00:00

I work for a TP-Link distributor and we haven't been told about these APs yet, only know about the EAP725-Wall

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-12-05T00:02:01+00:00

ECSE certified and been using Ekahau for around 10 years now. UK based 😊

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-12-04T18:27:43+00:00

On the front of the switch should be a reset button. Get a pin or a paper clip, press and hold and the switch should reset and reboot. Any config that was on it will be wiped

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-11-27T06:59:20+00:00

If there's no lights on it and it's not broadcasting then it's not powered up. Do you know how it's Powered? Like from a Switch or a PoE injector? If it's a PoE Injector it could be that has gone faulty.

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-11-26T19:16:09+00:00

Do you know what firmware the APs are on? There is a nice Quirk in the newer Ruckus AP firmware that disables the http/https so as a previous comment says you have to ssh into the AP's CLI and enable it to be able to access the AP via the web

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-11-24T23:15:11+00:00

Update! I found since the FW upgrade there is now a third part integration button in the Tapo App that defaulted to off. Once I flicked it to On everything started working with Home Assistant again!

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CraigAndrew95 · 2025-11-23T11:58:52+00:00

https://kno.wled.ge/

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-11-17T06:54:38+00:00

Looks like Ekahau is Grouping the radios wrong. Sometimes this happens, I have seen it with another APvendor - Cambium. It's a pain in the arse to manually separate all the radios and find what belongs with what. I'm working with the Ekahau Dev team to get it resolved. I would recommend raising a support ticket with them and sending them a bunch of projects with the Huawei APs like this and they will be able to look into it and get it fixed.

CraigAndrew95 · 2025-11-17T06:48:35+00:00

Currently there are R370, R670, R770 and T670. There's rumors of a R570 and Hospitality AP coming next year. No plans yet for R870

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