topic Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki in Wireless

MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

tech_gubby — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:35:52 GMT

Hi,

One AP is showing in repeater mode. We haven't changed anything, Could any one please help me on this asap??

Thank you VERY much,

Lucifer....

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

pjc — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:38:23 GMT

Check the cabling, patch port, switch port to the affected AP. Have seen it where the AP is powered up and in Mesh mode but not able to operate as a gateway, turned out to be cabling that had degraded. Try rebooting the ap before you do that

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

S Jhon — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:02:24 GMT

@tech_gubby AP comes in repeater mode when it doesn't have the direction connection to the internet. Repeater mode AP could be a issue of bad cable, or bad power supply.

Sometimes rebooting the AP can fix the issue.

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

Philip D'Ath — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:43:04 GMT

If you plug your notebook into the same switch port as the AP is in can you get to the Internet ok?

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

Nash — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 04:39:58 GMT

If I may suggest an ordered troubleshooting list:

1. Identify the switchport that the AP should be connected to.

2. Verify the switchport's config. If it's good, continue on. If it's misconfigured, fix that!

3. Connect a known-good device to that switchport. Do you get the connectivity you expect? Assign a static IP address if necessary.

4. If the switchport is good, start changing cables one at a time in between the switch and the AP. Make sure you know these cables are good.

4a. If there's a power injector involved, swap that out too if you can.

5. If the switchport is not good, configure an empty switchport to match the settings. Check it using your known-good device.

6. If the new switchport works on your device, connect your AP back in.

7. If AP comes up, victory! Otherwise, do steps 4 and 4a.

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

Gajanan1159309 — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:53:32 GMT

I have installed new MR52 access point in network and it came online as repeater, We have given static IP to it but it still in repeater mode.

We have rebooted , Factory Reset but still have same problem.

can you help here

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

BRUCE NEWTON — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:23:30 GMT

If your access point is coming online as a repeater then it’s most likely it can’t get an IP address via DHCP on the Ethernet connection. So check to make sure the cables are good, and that your subnet/VLAN and DHCP are correctly configured (and that there are spare DHCP addresses available). I don’t believe configuring a static IP address will work if the access point is running as a repeater.

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

Asavoy — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:21:53 GMT

I'm curious as to what the WAP is plugged in to. Most connectivity issues (working fine, then not with no change) with WAPs come down to a bad wire, a bad switch, or a bad WAP. I had one WAP that would randomly go to repeater mode and then back. Cable was fine, I re-tipped the ends, tried a different port, tried a different Meraki WAP, and always got the same result. I put a different brand WAP in place of it, and within a day I was alerted that the WAP had dropped down to 100mb from the 1000mb. I replaced the Cisco POE switch (SG300-28MP) a different brand of POE switch and haven't had a problem with that WAP since. Meraki does a bad job of defining why a WAP isn't functioning properly in many of these cases.

I've found that the model of switches that I inherited are junk, and have had 3 fail in the last month. Cisco reliability and stability ain't what it used to be!

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

Doug Thompson — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:36:21 GMT

I have also seen this happen with the AP is coming online and downloading new firmware. It correctly displays when the firmware was complete.

Re: MR33 - Access poin in repeater mode in meraki

Desu — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:21:39 GMT

It should be a cable problem. I have encountered a similar problem. One of the APs was in repeater mode. Either the cable b/n the AP and the Switch is long or the cable has a problem. When I checked it was connected to another AP wirelessly and the cable was not working. Once the cable problem was resolved it changed to Gateway mode.