Feature Request : Separate Wifi settings from Wan settings

[Cedric Alexandre]

Hello,

Please Pedro,

While i admire your work, i wonder why Wifi settings are on the same page than WAN settings ???

Each time I change a wifi channel, it disconnect me from PPPOE…
It was not the case on Tomato Polarcloud, and other Tomato distribution or even DDWRT…
I can imagine there is much more important things to do, and i am not a specialist in developpment, but if you have some time, someday, would you want to separate those two settings please (Wan and Wifi settings)…

Thank you very much, and if I can help (with French translation for example / functionalities test) I would be glad…

[pedro]

You can always use Advanced → Virtual Wireless page, to change WL settings…

[Cedric Alexandre]

OMG, Thank you Pedro, usually I fear a bit to touch things i don”t know…

[DJK]

Expanding the notes on the Overview tab it reads

“By definition, configuration settings for the primary VIF of any physical wireless interfaces shouldn't be touched here (use the Basic/Network page instead).“

So there’s kind of a reason to be “scared”.

[pedro]

I know anout it, but I have not encountered any bad action after saving changes on this page.

[Cedric Alexandre]

So, should I fear or “not to fear“ ?^

[pedro]

Just use it and see if everything's fine. As I said before, every time I have to change something in WL, I use this page.

[Cedric Alexandre]

I tried, and :

1st time i switcher 5ghz from 56 to 153, it worked, then i tried 153 to 56, and i my wifi connected computer wasn’t able to connect to google.com / yahoo.com, then I disabled/enabled wifi on my computer and it worked again

I decided to try another time, and same problem but it took longer after i (disabled/enabled wifi) to retrieve a web page (yahoo.com)

I also notified my wifi speed in MacOS Wifi Settings dropping from 1080 → 720 - > 585 → 720 - > 585 → 526 Mbps. It seem this is not the right way to change wifi settings. I will restart the router to make things right

I am not a develloper or a wifi specialist, but it is faster to switch channel or change a wifi setting from Basic.

[M_ars]

its a difficult topic. If you just change (pure) wireless settings like channel, channel width or control sideband for example - advanced-wlanvifs page will do that job without problems.

But it will be difficult if it comes to wireless modes like Media Bridge, Ethernet Bridge or Wireless Client → here we need to change/adjust the WAN & LAN setup and thats is why we have the wl radio things at the basic-network page. (and also this Note “By definition, configuration … “)

We do not check if only pure wireless settings changed at basic-network page and therefore we apply all.

[pedro]

As @M_ars said:

But it will be difficult if it comes to wireless modes like Media Bridge, Ethernet Bridge or Wireless Client → here we need to change/adjust the WAN & LAN setup and thats is why we have the wl radio things at the basic-network page. (and also this Note “By definition, configuration … “)

So it's impossible to separate these settings, because WAN settings are dependent on WL and vice versa.