Multiple AP7 Ceiling units dropping SSID
I just setup the new firewall AP7 Ceiling and it keeps turning off (publishing) the SSID.
The access point will be running for a while and then what seems to be randomly the ssid will be turned off and none of the devices will be connected. but if you look at the device physically the blue light is solid and seems to be fine - it's just that all of the devices get disconnected.
What I mean by the SSID is turning off is that the AP device stays on (but all the devices become disconnected from Wi-Fi and the SSID disappears from the list of available wifi networks). This AP7 is connected to the Firewall Gold using an unmanaged Cisco 8 port Poe+ switch. And the network that the AP7 is connected to is the main LAN
Ip range 192.168.161.1/19
subnet 255.255.224.0
Also I have confirmed that this is not isolated to a single access point hardware issue as I swapped out the AP7 with another one and the same things happens.
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Turns out the problem was related to the PoE limits of the old switch which was only providing enough power for the AP to work most of the time, but ultimately was unstable and causing the unit to reboot.
The originally reported problem has now been resolved by swapping out the old switch (Cisco cbs110-8pp-d) with a new one (Netgear MS108UP).
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