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installation to an AP-225 at home to solve IPTV video
streaming issues
“Free” Aruba Wi-Fi Access Point (APs) at the Wireless Conference
At several Wireless LAN Professional conference (WLPC) some vendors gave away Wi-Fi equipment, antenna’s and tools. Aruba was one of them and they provided in 2014 Aruba AP-225 APs (3x3:3) and later on in 2015 onwards via vouchers the AP-205H APs (2x2:2) were shipped. First of all, I want to thank Sean Rynearson (@srynearson) with his very good support to ship and to get these APs over to Asia.
Android IPTV video streaming did not work well One of the issues was the 2.4 GHz coverage (see Globeron 1-2-3 Solving Android IPTV WiFi issues http://bit.ly/2wVo6Am) for more details. Having both the Aruba APs available and reading “Exploring Mesh with an AP-205H” by Scott McDermott @scottm32768 website link mostlynetworks.com how to configure the equipment, we decided to follow. There are few extra things to take into consideration:
• Country codes (both Aruba APs need to have the same country code)
• Latest firmware on both APs. Somehow, I had to make sure that only 1 Aruba AP is on the network to be able to connect to it and update the firmware, otherwise it directed the web browser back to the 1st APs IP-address
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Both support access at 2.4 GHz (for any client to connect to) as well on 5 GHz, but the 5 GHz is also used for the Mesh backhaul.
Before using the 5 GHz network as a Mesh backhaul (the IPTV was connected directly to the AP-225 portal)
After using the IPTV box with the Mesh network setup using 5 GHz as a backhaul. Note that the IPTV box only supports 2.4 GHz and connected to the other radio on the Mesh AP.
Besides looking into the Portal Access Point itself also with a packet capture / protocol analyzer you can see that the MESH Point (AP-205H) is connected to the Mesh Portal (Aruba 225) which is connected to the rest of the network and the internet. The Mesh network is using an 80 MHz backhaul.
Wi-Fi clients still connect normally to the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks depending on the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) and they will roam accordingly between both networks. While “band-steering” with a single SSID is supported on the APs (to automatically balance Wi-Fi clients between the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands and vice versa), I prefer to use two separate SSIDs “www24GHZ” for the 2.4 GHz network and “www5GHZ” for the 5 GHz network to validate (using a protocol analyzer) to see if dual-band clients connect to the particular radio and to see if they roam between the Mesh-Point AP and the Portal AP.