Comment by rsync
2 days ago
Just to reiterate for those that missed it:
If you change the schedule of a WiFi network your entire network (wired and everything) goes down for two minutes.
Just a simple admin policy change… full network outage.
Clown. College.
Constantly tweaking settings is not a use-case they have optimized for. Most of their customers are small IT shops that support small/medium sized businesses. They set up a network for a few doctors offices, law firms, etc. by clicking a few buttons in the controller's GUI once, and then remotely keep an eye on the networks with the controller software's remote management features.
If you set the thing to automatically optimize WiFi (the default!) it goes completely down for several minutes every day.
I would not want to have to carefully optimize settings to get that third nine of uptime for a small business.
Eh, in my experience, if you disable the uplink monitor features aggressively enough (which is in a different place in different firmwares and currently seems to also require disabling all wireless uplink/“mesh” capability), then sometime more of the network will stay up. Maybe even the gateway will keep working too if you don’t touch any gateway settings. Of course, if the gateway does decide to reboot, you’re down for many minutes.
It’s real classy.