I was surprised as you are. Customer got them instead of the router I told her
and I gave them a try.
You do lose bandwidth, they're just WDS repeaters, but as far as seemless
roaming Linksys got it right.
The only thing I've had that worked as well for me was WDS with MT, however,
the bandwidth issue again.
Last hotel I did I used RB411 + dbii 2.4GHz N cards if memory serves, the ones
that are no longer on the market. No WDS, ethernet to every AP, pretty good
roaming, but coverage was so good that unless you had two rooms on opposite
ends of the hotel on different floors it was never an issue. The dude's hotel
had more capacity than some of my towers, just not the feed to support it.
For the most part I've found the Linksys method to be seemless regardless of
the clients.
Just about everything I've tried that wasn't using WDS was highly dependent on
the client, so roaming was all over the map. Some would never even hiccup while
playing an MP3 over the network, others would hang on to a -95 in spite of the
same SSID having a -50 nearby. I did watch the data stream on torch to make
sure that my laptop wasn't buffering ahead.
Linksys is a consumer level setup. Works fine for User Bob's house and User Bob
can pick up replacements at Walmart.
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From: TJ Trout
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Multiple AP in house
Linksys and range extenders? Seriously?
On Feb 28, 2015 7:32 PM, "Mark - Myakka Technologies" <m...@mailmt.com> wrote:
TJ,
Using all mikrotik, but your ubnt example made me go check to see what
Mikrotik has. Looks like the have a signal-range option I can use.
We'll see how that goes.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015, 9:17:07 PM, you wrote:
TT> Only set the same ssid if they are all ubnt devices and then
TT> enable the minimum signal level to like -80 so it will kick them
TT> off and force them to roam to another ap. Otherwise you end up
TT> connected to the ap with the least signal while sitting right next
TT> to a different ap. If not then you need to just name them all
TT> differently. This still won't solve that issue but if you educate
TT> the customer they can manually switch aps. Best solution is mesh
TT> or unifi or minimum a ap that will disconnect the client at a set
TT> signal like ubiquiti
TT> On Feb 28, 2015 5:39 PM, "Josh Luthman"
TT> <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
TT> We've generally done one SSID with success.
TT> At convention centers I do different because iOS had problems way back.
TT> Josh Luthman
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TT> On Feb 28, 2015 8:24 PM, "Mark - Myakka Technologies" <m...@mailmt.com>
wrote:
TT> I have an installer that may have gotten a bit carried away with the
TT> home owner installing AP though out the house.
TT> Looks like we have one wireless router and 4 AP scattered around the
TT> house.ￜ I'm going over there on Monday to try to see if I can get
TT> these configured so they are not stepping on each other.
TT> Trying to figure out if I want to name all the SSID's to be the same
TT> or name them differently.ￜ Any pro's or con's either way?
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