I grabbed a couple of Draytek Vigor AP902 access points to work in conjunction with my Draytek Vigor 2925 router and Draytek Vigor 910c access point.

I dont mind the Draytek gear in general – for a home setup it is sufficient… however i did find i needed better wireless range thought that 3 AP’s with roaming would be a good fit…. and Drayteks central management swayed me towards getting an all-draytek solution. (as if you can manage 3 AP’s centrally, why wouldn’t you?!)

In short – it was/is a disappointment. The central AP management interface, accessed via the vigor 2925 is quite basic and there is no feedback indicating if applying a configuration to AP’s has been successful or not (for example).

The biggest issue however is that my PSK was applied incorrectly to all access points – this became apparent when all devices lost connectivity, despite the PSK being “the same”

When logging in directly to one of the access points to troubleshoot, i found the PSK in clear text, missing the last 5 characters. This was both good and bad…. bad as it was displayed in clear text, but good as it made the issue very clear.

From there, i simply updated the PSK on each individual AP, each with a 2.4 and 5.0GHz SSID, so 6 updates – and all was OK. Then disabled central management on the 2925.

If someone else is thinking of going for an all draytek solution for the same reasons…. my impression at the moment is – don’t do it.

I’ve emailed draytek support – and will update this post with their reply.

 

*** Update 07/01/2019 ***

I got a reply from Australian Draytek support – initially i got told “it works fine” – when i replied asking if a WPA2 key with certain characters in it, it does look like that a WPA2 key with “&” in it cannot be managed via the Vigor 2925 central management