I am running a Beryl AX in my dorm and i love this little thing. They have a WPA2 Enterprise Wifi, which I was able to connect to with 4.7.5-op24. I am also in reach of the Eduroam network, which it was also able to connect to, it is much slower though. Due to that I want to use the dorm primarily. But it does drop the internet connection once a day (At about midday). When going into the admin interface it says "The interface is connected, but the Internet can't be accessed.".
Now I am wondering if there is any way to let the router reconnect when this happens? Or maybe switch to the known Eduroam Wifi which i have set up anyway. Would be great if anyone could point me in the right direction on how to solve this. I guess the main issue is the dorm wifi but there is nothing I can do about that right now. Thank you!
Configuration
Allow Switching to Other Saved Networks … On
MAC Mode … Factory
Enable Camouflage … Off
Lock BSSID … Off
Have you tried setting up the ‘Repeater’ Mode with the ‘Muliti-WAN’ feature set to ‘Failover’?
Your mileage may vary since in the past when I’ve tried using this feature before, it would cause my Wireless to drop connections to my clients on the WiFi band that I used for the Repeater setup.
So, just in case your router causes the same problem I had when I tried using the Repeater feature, if you’re not using the 2.5Ghz band for wireless clients and the other internet option is capable of 2.5Ghz, then you could turn off the 2.5Ghz band in Wireless, and use it for the Repeater feature.
I think I already have set it up the way you suggested, but I might not be fully following you right now. And it also is on Repeater Mode all the time, not just a failover. That would be the case for both WIFIs I have in range, the dorm WIFI as well as the schools Eduroam network. So Failing Over might not be what I am looking for
Regarding the 2.5 Ghz (i suppose 2.4?), i also have the 2.4 Ghz WIFI turned off, and am only publishing the router on the 5Ghz non-guest mode. In the connection to the repeater networks i enabled it to choose automatically between 2.4 and 5 Ghz and it is mostly connected to the 5Ghz version. This also works fine for a long time until it just doesn't and I need to manually reboot.
AFAIK the Multi-WAN is about switching between wifi (repeater), ethernet and tethering.
If you have multiple possible wifi host networks, they are all part of the "repeater" setting. Having multiple known networks in the repeater should allow automatic switching wifi networks when the current one fails. Actually first there is "roaming" (different AP (BSSID)) for the same SSID. If these possibilities give no access, then the router uses the other SSID in the "Known networks" list. At least if the option "Allow Switching To Other Saved Networks" is set enabled.
It is not documented what the failure test is. "Pure wifi connection, or Internet connection status tracking."
Allow Switching To Other Saved Network. If the option is enabled, the router will automatically connect to other saved networks when it is unable to connect to the current Wi-Fi network.
I think my main issue is, that it is allowing the connection in general, but there is just no internet on the connection, hence the warning "The interface is connected, but the Internet can't be accessed." the router then doesn't proceed to try out the other known network even though "Allow Switching To Other Saved Network" is enabled
Sorry, I was using Ethernet WAN to Repeater for Failover, not dual Repeaters like you’re using. I don’t know if Failover works with dual Repeater networks unless it lets you choose which wireless network is primary and secondary. Perhaps there’s something available on the OpenWRT forums for mwan3 on OpenWRT24 configurations to enable primary to secondary and back failover when using two wireless Repeater networks.
Could you please share the issue syslog with us through PM?
When the repeater displays "The interface is connected, but the Internet can't be accessed", are other wireless clients that are also connected to this Primary WiFi AP also without Internet network? I want to confirm whether this WiFi is really abnormal through comparison.
