I really hope I'm not wrong in this, but the last time I looked into this it is possible to name them the same with the same credentials. However, some devices may hold on to a weak connection in favor of switching to the stronger signal. I was told by the guy I was discussing all of it with that I would be better off if I went for a small mesh network rather than taking the duplicate SSID approach.
I'm all for hearing that I'm wrong in this, or if someone has a better alternative. I've thought about doing the same to give me better coverage around my house and in my carport. On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently set up another access point in my yard to give better > wireless coverage to my shop. Currently it's on a different channel and > different SSID than my current one. This works alright and my phone or > laptop will hop on whichever is closest most of the time. But it got me > wondering, would I be better off having the second access point have the > same SSID? Would a device be more likely to switch back and forth > between APs if the SSID was the same? We did this at BYU with enteprise > wifi APs, which supposedly did some kind of fancy handoff between APs as > the client roamed. I realize on a non-enterprise system there's no > handoff between APs, so connections might drop when the client interface > reinitializes, but that happens anyway with my existing setup and > doesn't cause me any heartburn. Do any of you run two APs in your house > with the same SSID but different channel? > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
