It would be helpful to have an option for the X3000 always try to re-connect to the repeater wifi connection regardless of the state of other WANs. Currently it will go dormant and not re-scan/re-connect when other WANs are healthy. I have the repeater as the 3rd priority in failover mode behind cellular and WAN, but I need to access network resources via that repeater wifi connection. In other words, I would like to use it as an always-on NAT’d wireless bridge.Thanks!
Hi
When the Repeater is scanning and attempting to reconnect, it can interfere with clients connected to the X3000 via Wi-Fi. Therefore, we add a mechanism on v4.8, if another higher-priority WAN connection is available, the Repeater will not automatically scan or reconnect unless the other connection becomes unavailable.
This behavior can be changed by SSH-ing into the router and running the following command. After modification, the Repeater will always attempt to scan and reconnect:
uci set repeater.@main[0].smart_reconnect='0'
/etc/init.d/repeater restart
Please note, as mentioned above, that when the Repeater is scanning and reconnecting, it may impact other clients connected to the X3000 over Wi-Fi—packet loss may occur.