Hi,
i have been battling with this for a while. I have my AP in wds and when i connect with clients in wds mode. I get very frequent disconnections with this kind of error in the log.

mac@wlan1: disconnected, beacon from non AP
mac@wlan1: disconnected, excessive data loss (signal strength of about -75db)

am no sure i understand what the error is telling me so i dont know how to solve it could someone explain it please.

Hi,
i have been battling with this for a while. I have my AP in wds and when i connect with clients in wds mode. I get very frequent disconnections with this kind of error in the log.

mac@wlan1: disconnected, beacon from non AP
mac@wlan1: disconnected, excessive data loss (signal strength of about -75db)

am no sure i understand what the error is telling me so i dont know how to solve it could someone explain it please.

Normally when i see "excessive data loss" it happens when the noise floor is bad and i have high interference. You might want to consider switching channels.

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Wireless_Debug_Logs

Matt

Thanks alot. What about the non AP beacon error. Whats the explanation

Thanks alot. What about the non AP beacon error. Whats the explanation

"no beacons" - no beacons received from remote end of WDS link. Most likely weak signal, remote turned off, strong interference, some other RF related issue that makes communication impossible.

Again normally you will see this with high interference.

Matt

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Hello Frens...
yes, interferences or channel overloaded
try repointing the antenna or change channel.

regards
Hasbullah.com
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Thanks alot. What about the non AP beacon error. Whats the explanation

"no beacons" - no beacons received from remote end of WDS link. Most likely weak signal, remote turned off, strong interference, some other RF related issue that makes communication impossible.

Again normally you will see this with high interference.

Matt

You guys thanks a billion.

I have fully come to terms with the fact that this is caused with interference because we have a lot of power outages around here and when that happens during the time the backup power lasts i don't get those kind of problems so i guess most other systems are also off at the same time.

Well i was thinking is it a bad thing if i have about 4 wds client connected to one wds AP and the are all within the same range of each other ie its a mesh network.Also, there are 2 different networks with such configuration as stated above. The first in on channel 4 and the other on 10. What do you think?