AFAIK, Mikrotik does not have a built-in band steering option, but you can use access lists to achieve a similar result (although its rudimentary). The UBNT tools are fancy versions of this same thing, the major difference being that UBNT allows a proper version of band steering, which allows a client to connect in the 5ghz range if its signal is good enough, and forces the client back to 2.4ghz when the signal falls off. The client will pick the best AP on its own. Even though UBNT's 'soft' methods for controlling which APs clients connect to are slightly more advanced than Mikrotik's, the theory is the same.Д«asic idea is to set your transmit power on each AP to be as low as possible without creating completely dead spots, and then use an RSSI-based access list to basically force the client to reconnect when it falls out of range. the idealistic version of a 'mesh' network does not reflect what's actually possible in wireless networking. Other manufacturers like Ubnt do have advanced features which give you more control to steer clients to a selected access point.Д®choing your last paragraph. The algorithm to chose the proper network is only client sided (with some devices it looks like they will always chose the first network they see) and cannot be changed from the access point side thus we decided to go with lower transmit power in our networks which is the good middle path in that situation. Minimum wAP or cAP 2n as standalone or capsman WiFi-bridges with a hEX or RB3011 as controller and/or router. Never mix wireless and routing inside the same enclosure, ever, because you will eventually want to change one of those features without touching the other one.

So if your customer comes into that corridor his device will start searching for networks. The hAP Lite might be able to pull that off but I'd never try. What sometimes is not clear for everyone: Client decides for themself which AP they want to connect to. You can try and set the same SSID on all access points and turn down the tx-power so that you are not creating to much noise for the other access points in that line. Im not sure if virtual access points (as they would have the same SSID, encryption AND mac-address) are a key function of Mesh-networks but otherwise you would not be able to do that with your MikroTik Hardware.

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