On Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:19pm, "Richard Smith" <smithb...@gmail.com> said:
> On 01/22/2015 04:18 AM, David Lang wrote: > > >> Recently, we picked up the 11th floor as well and moved many people up > >> there. I got a 3rd AP (another TP-Link AC1750) and set that one up on > >> a free channel with a different ESSID. > > > > I like to put all the APs on the same ESSID so that people can roam > > between them. This requires that the APs act as bridges to a dedicated > > common network, not as routers. > > That's the ultimate plan but for convenience of being able to easily > select what AP I'm talking to or to be able to tell folks to move from > one to another I've got them on different ESSIDs. It also helps me keep > track of what RF channel things are on. A side comment, meant to discourage continuing to bridge rather than route. There's no reason that the AP's cannot have different IP addresses, but a common ESSID. Roaming between them would be like roaming among mesh subnets. Assuming you are securing your APs' air interfaces using encryption over the air, you are already re-authenticating as you move from AP to AP. So using routing rather than bridging is a good idea for all the reasons that routing rather than bridging is better for mesh.
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