Max BR1 AP dropout

[bhwilkerson]

While at a campground the local WiFi signal was weak and possibly dropping intermittently. During this time the AP would appear to stop transmitting with my AP’s SSID not being visible. Without the signal I could not get in to the admin menu to troubleshoot further. It makes no sense that any activity on any of the the WAN ports would cause the AP to stop transmitting. A reboot would often solve it for a time. Is there any condition under which the AP stops transmitting?

[chris021-lwx]

Hi @bhwilkerson, Welcome to the Peplink community!

This might be the cause:

Disable SSID When No Internet Is Available On Specific WAN(s)

Is there a way to disable an SSID when there is no internet available? We have a marine application where they want to provide free WiFi access to guests inside the vessel, but only when the vessel is close enough to the docks to utilize WiFi as a WAN. Having the guests just use the land based WiFi is not possible because the signal it is not strong enough to be received inside the vessel. The Peplink router however can connect to the land based WiFi very well because it is utilizing a good d…

[bhwilkerson]

Thanks for the info. I just checked the setting and is it already disabled.

[chris021-lwx]

What firmware version are you running?

[bhwilkerson]

8.1.1 I updated in the middle of this problem and it did not help.