Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com wrote:   1) overlapping AP coverage       They are on different frequencies - so there is no overlap.   2) recommending a high power AP is not really appropriate (in fact 300  mW may well be illegal in some places) - this

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:09 AM, mike cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com wrote: It is possible that this is a design fault upstream in NetworkManager, and I can understand that Fedora developers may wash their hands of this issue citing this as an upstream design problem and saying file a BZ

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 30 January 2011 20:10:15 Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/30/2011 11:49 AM, mike cloaked wrote: I don't know if the design of NetworkManager ever considered this scenario and whether any developer ever put in place code to hook up to a valid strong signal even if a previously valid signal

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 31 January 2011 01:18:35 Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/31/2011 05:15 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 01/30/2011 03:42 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: My advice to the OP would be to get a better AP with a more powerful radio. Typical consumer junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/31/2011 06:39 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Ed, can I ask for practical details? Currently my router gives wifi coverage on the ground floor and first floor (and is little used, but desirable). By the time the signal reaches my office in a stone building in the garden it is very weak. I

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: My advice to the OP would be to get a better AP with a more powerful radio. Typical consumer junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one can get a good 100mW - 300mW init for not much more. (Google: Ubiquiti) Ubiquiti 300mbit hardware is running off of 100mbit

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 31/01/11 09:50, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: My advice to the OP would be to get a better AP with a more powerful radio. Typical consumer junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one can get a good 100mW - 300mW init for not much more. (Google: Ubiquiti)

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/31/2011 10:50 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: My advice to the OP would be to get a better AP with a more powerful radio. Typical consumer junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one can get a good 100mW - 300mW init for not much more. (Google: Ubiquiti)

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-31 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 07:49:35PM +, mike cloaked wrote: I have a question for any wireless expert who can help. At home I have two wireless access points - one upstairs and one downstairs - to give a good signal anywhere in the house. What I would like is to have a seamless wireless

Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread mike cloaked
I have a question for any wireless expert who can help. At home I have two wireless access points - one upstairs and one downstairs - to give a good signal anywhere in the house. What I would like is to have a seamless wireless access from any laptop whether mine or a visitor with the

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 03:16 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: bug. If behavior is as described then its a bug - that's precisely how ALL access points are set up for any case where there is more than a single AP on same SSID .. i.e. every commercial, office, hotel, campus, airport etc wifi is done exactly

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com writes: The point of roaming with multiple AP's is to be able to seamlessly move around without the connections dying ... as far as user is concerned its a single network - just like when you roam with a cell phone - you don't care when the connection is

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 03:42 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Genes MailLists li...@sapience.com writes: My advice to the OP would be to get a better AP with a more powerful radio. Typical consumer junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one can get a good 100mW - 300mW init for not much more.

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/31/2011 05:15 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: On 01/30/2011 03:42 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: My advice to the OP would be to get a better AP with a more powerful radio. Typical consumer junk is 15mW. Without looking too hard one can get a good 100mW - 300mW init for not much more.

Re: Dual wireless access points and connection from f14?

2011-01-30 Thread Genes MailLists
On 01/30/2011 09:51 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: They are on different frequencies - so there is no overlap. 2) recommending a high power AP is not really appropriate (Ubiquiti) I take it back - this could well be a good alternate solution ... -- users mailing list