Just added an outdoor Omada AP to get better WiFi on the patio and something about the controller topology looks completely wrong.
I’ve got two indoor APs with 2.5GbE ports and the new outdoor one only has a gigabit port. Now Omada is showing both indoor APs connected through the outdoor AP.
Which makes absolutely no sense because every AP has its own Ethernet cable going back to the switch. Wireless mesh is disabled too.
The other thing bothering me is speed. I’m paying for 2Gb fiber and most of my WiFi tests are somewhere between 600–850 Mbps.
Did I somehow introduce a bottleneck by adding the slower AP? Or is the topology view just drunk?
If they’re all physically connected to separate switch ports, the outdoor AP isn’t magically routing traffic for the other two. The topology diagram is not the actual packet path. What switch are you using?
@GuestGuest 2.5G PoE switch, connected to the router over 10G. All three APs have separate cables going into it.
Is it an Omada switch? Because the controller can get pretty creative with topology when it doesn’t have full information from the switching hardware.
@GuestGuest Nope, different brand. So you’re telling me the entire diagram might just be wrong?
Pretty much. Check the actual switch ports and their negotiated link speeds. That’s more useful than the pretty picture.
The outdoor AP isn’t throttling your other APs over Ethernet, but it could still affect them on the wireless side. I’d open NetSpot and check which BSSID your laptop is actually connected to, plus the channels and signal levels of all three APs. You’d be surprised how often a laptop sticks to an outdoor AP while there’s a perfectly good indoor one nearby. Also worth checking whether the new AP is sharing a channel with one of the indoor ones.
@SignalHunter95 Wait, even if all three use the same SSID? I assumed Omada would just connect devices to whichever AP was closest.
Same SSID doesn’t guarantee that. The client makes the roaming decision. NetSpot will show the individual BSSIDs, so you can tell which radio you’re actually using instead of guessing from the network name.