Q: Having issues w/ setting up a dual roaming wifi network
I'm trying to set up a secondary Wifi network in my home for my tenants to be able to access the internet through, but I have been having issues w/ the routers losing connection and no longer broadcasting a wifi signal.
The setup is as picture below
The top level airport extreme has cat6 cables going into the WAN ports of the next airport extremes, which each then using the LAN1 ports to connect into the next routers in the chains. The airport express in this image has since been replaced with another Airport Extreme.
Each of the routers below the top level is set to Bridged mode.
The middle layer of routers is set to have the same network name and password as the top level one to create my personal roaming network.
The bottom layer has a different name, but are both named the same to try and create another roaming network.
What I can't figure out is why the routers on the secondary network keeps dropping it's wifi connection? I need to power them down and restart them for the Wifi to come back up.
I tried to set each of them to have a Guest Network w/ the same name, but for some reason I couldn't connect to it.
Any help/advise is greatly appreciated!
VIN,AirPort Extreme 802.11n (4th Gen), iOS 10, null
Posted on Sep 25, 2016 8:25 PM
Thanks again for all the help!
I've done as suggested, but I was still experiencing some issues w/ the AE's designated for my suite losing connectivity. I found another post on here suggesting to turn the IPv6 to be "local-link only", so I did that as well and it appears to have been stable now for the past 4 hours w/o any drops. Fingers crossed that it remains stable!
Posted on Sep 27, 2016 12:36 PM

