Re: WAP configurations

2009-08-18 Thread Kurt Buff
The way your vendor did it is the way our vendor did it - except that in one spot we have 5 WAPs in a star configuration - one in each corner with one in the middle. Using the non-overlapping channels (1, 6 and 11), and making sure that no two relatively adjacent WAPs shared a channel was pretty s

RE: WAP configurations

2009-08-18 Thread Martin Blackstone
: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 5:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: WAP configurations Don't you need a managed wireless system such as Aruba networks' equipment to allow contiguous connectivity from WAP to WAP? If not you'

Re: WAP configurations

2009-08-18 Thread Silvio L. Nisgoski
But you need the same ssid and key. Otherwise, clients will experiment disconnection/reconnection when changing APs - Original Message - From: Tom Miller To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:26 AM Subject: RE: WAP configurations Don't you n

RE: WAP configurations

2009-08-18 Thread Tom Miller
Don't you need a managed wireless system such as Aruba networks' equipment to allow contiguous connectivity from WAP to WAP? If not you'd need the same SSID and key? Not a wireless expert so I'm really asking for my own education. >>> "N Parr" 8/17/2009 3:47 PM >>> The previous vendor did it co

RE: WAP configurations

2009-08-17 Thread N Parr
The previous vendor did it correctly. Why would you want to make users hop on and off different SSID's? That wouldn't be seamless for the clients at all. If they are all the same SSID's and configured identically (other than channel) then the users will attach as they need to based on signal. T