Wireless-to-wireless bridge with new AP

Routers
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I’m thinking about buying GL.iNet portable routers. Before buying I want to confirm that the situation is achievable.

What I want is like this.

YAMAHA Router (existing) <==(wire)==> multiple YAMAHA Wi-Fi APs (existing) <==(2.4GHz wireless)==> GL.iNet router <==(5GHz wireless)==> Android HMDs

Also a server PC is connected to YAMAHA Router by wire.

I want Android HMDs to access the servers on the server PC, which is currently reachable from clients of YAMAHA Wi-Fi APs.

My problem is roaming (AP switching) of HMDs. The HMD’s don’t roam nicely so I plan to insert GL.iNet router so that GL.iNet router can roam better between YAMAHA APs.

Please tell me which router I should choose and which mode I shoud use.

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Hi

Our current product does not yet support Wi-Fi roaming on repeaters, so it may not meet your expectations.

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Hi, thank you for your reply.

Our current product does not yet support Wi-Fi roaming on repeaters

OK, but I want to think a bit more about the possibility.

I found several posts on OpenWrt forum about this kind of issue:

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/sta-mode-roaming-19-07-7/96122

Both posts indicate that wpa_supplicant is the key and installing full wpad instead of default mini wpad may enable bgscan option of wpa_supplicant.conf, which enables roaming.

Do you think it is bad idea to try this method?

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Sorry for the delayed response.

If the Wi-Fi STA mode roaming from native OpenWrt support is available, you might consider our MT3000 model.
It has already be supported by the community and can be flashed with native OpenWrt.

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