Frequent heart beat losses on unleashed meshed network

unknown

We run several UN networks in mesh mode. Often 1 master with 2-3 meshed AP's. In some of those networks we encounter frequent heartbeat loses on the meshed AP's. Does anyone know if these losses really mean that clients suffer from outages or is it just a problem in the management information between master en mesh?

michael_brado

For APs to maintain Mesh, they must see each other at >= 25 RSSI.

You can review the AP's support info, for client details which will show the other AP as a client.

Mesh AP have very low RSSI value to establish a mesh connection to the root AP. The optimum value suggested to have is 30 - 35 RSSI.
 
### MESH Uplink History ###
 
BSSID             S LastSeen Ch   AdvUpl  SmpUpl CalcUpl  RSSI/UL/NF   Flt IF UR D Seen Management-MAC    SSID   IP
c0:8a:de:a3:1e:c3 U    77079  11  130.00   12.00   12.00    19/13/-105 u    -  u 1   12 c0:8a:de:23:1e:c0 Mesh-101103000023 192.168.64.78
c0:8a:de:a3:1e:c3 U    77045  11  130.00   12.00   12.00    19/13/-105 u    -  u 1   48 c0:8a:de:23:1e:c0 Mesh-101103000023 192.168.64.78
c0:8a:de:a3:1e:c3 U    75446  11  130.00   18.00   18.00    20/14/-105 u    -  u 1   48 c0:8a:de:23:1e:c0 Mesh-101103000023 192.168.64.78