On 31 Jan 2013, at 15:43, Steve Harker <[email protected]> wrote: > That setup would work fine UNTIL a user wanders outside the range of one > Wireless Access point and into another. They will have to authenticate to the > new AP and there is no guarantee that they would get the same IP. A way > around this is a wireless network controller that the Access Points plug into > this will then handle a hand off from one AP to the next without the > re-authentication. Now Wireless controllers need special APs and are > expensive.
If the AP's have the same SSID/auth, handoff should be seamless. It certainly is in my experience, and I'm using a pair of cheap-as-chips T-Link APs at opposite ends of a house with foot-think 1860's stone walls. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
