Basically when one is on the network, and the other is not, they cannot find each other (even at a distance of 10 feet). I have scaled back to just two devices, trying to just get these two to work. I got off the phone with their support not too long ago and came to that realization (they told me to update the firmware which broke it even worse than before.). If you don't have a 2nd wireless link after the first wireless link, you don't need WDS. If you do that without WDS, DHCP (among other things) will break. WDS is only needed if you were going Wired AP -> Wireless AP -> Another wireless AP. The 2.4Ghz on the non-wired ones you leave as 'Client' SSID in normal AP mode. Set the 5Ghz band to 'Backhaul' (again, for discussion.) On all 3 non-wired APs, you set your 5Ghz band to Client Access point (or something like that?) and connect to the Backhaul SSID. Set 2.4Ghz to your client-access SSID, named 'Client' for the sake of discussion. So it sounds like you don't need WDS at all, but even if you did, you'd only use it on one band. In further fact, you only need WDS if you are running a multi-hop wireless bridge setup. Then you leave the 2.4Ghz as normal, NON-WDS. (Usually 5Ghz.) That connects the un-wired AP back to a wired AP on the 5Ghz band. You only need WDS Access points on ONE band. If I plug them directly back into the network I can then access the web interface again. The remaining two, I cannot reach their web interface even if I connect my laptop to their SSID wirelessly. 11 (which is physically connected to my LAN), and the last device ending in. I can only reach the interface of the device ending in.

11 being connected to the LAN, and the rest connected only via WDS), the WDS links show as UP, however there is no connectivity back to my network or the internet. At this point, when I turn the devices on (the first one ending in. When I set this up I had all devices connected to my HP ProCurve for PoE, and when the WDS links came up, I created a storm on the network and brought it to its' knees.įollowing that, I turned on the Spanning Tree Protocol to help eliminate broadcast storms, and disabled all WDS links except the links back to the first device (ending in. To set up the WDS, I added to all devices the MAC addresses of the other 3 devices. All devices have Fast Handover turned on and set to -85dBm.All devices have WPA2/PSK AES security turned on with the same password on all.

Operation mode for Both antennas is set to WDS Access Point.All 4 devices are operating on Channel 5 (2.432GHz) for the 2.4GHz antenna, and Channel 36 (5.18GHz) for the 5GHz antenna.On each device (and this may be in error), the SSID for the 2.4 GHz & 5 GHz bands have been set to the same SSID to enable Band Steering.DNS setup to go through my DNS server, ending in.

Gateway set to my Gateway Switch, ending in.Static IP Address assigned to each device, ending in.

Engenius wireless router setup