Cisco Autonomous AP WGB

[beers]

Howdy,

Is anyone familiar with using an autonomous Cisco AP as a workgroup-bridge?

I currently have the bridge set up to associate with the SSID in universal mode but I guess there's no way to disable the Almond+ from rebroadcasting the SSID and acting like a repeater too. In the diagram below, my basement bridge keeps associating with the office bridge instead of the "root ap" of the ATT gateway.

Is there any way to force a MAC association for the SSID so it will only bind to the ATT side instead? As you can imagine, this is killing the Fileserver's Internet performance down to about ~16 mbit.

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hostname Core-Bridge
dot11 ssid ATT-Beers
authentication open
authentication key-management wpa version 2
infrastructure-ssid
wpa-psk ascii 7 xxxxxxxxx
bridge irb
interface Dot11Radio1
no ip address
no ip route-cache
!
encryption mode ciphers aes-ccm tkip
!
ssid ATT-Beers
!
antenna gain 0
peakdetect
station-role workgroup-bridge universal 5046.5db5.9843
infrastructure-client
bridge-group 1
!
bridge 1 route ip
bridge 1 aging-time 120

 

[beers]

I decided to ditch this configuration and converted some of the phone lines in my house to Ethernet since they already used Cat5e.

As a follow-up, a more 'best practice' approach would have been to establish a dedicated SSID for the bridge specifically, although there doesn't appear to be a configuration item to associate to a specific AP MAC but rather an SSID name instead.