On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:55 PM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:54:05AM -0400, Kevin Gordon wrote: > > Unfortunately, this symptom seems to appear only on our TP-link > > running Open WRT and our Buffalo running DD-WRT. The view shows all > > 20 of the laptops when we use our Cisco or Cradlepoint AP's - both of > > which are running their proprietary firmware. We have a tech > > volunteer here who is investigating whether there might be a setting > > within the open-source firmware for the TP-Link and Buffaloes that > > might better be able to handle these items. One theory he is > > exploring is whether the AP is fracking the multicast. However, we > > have no experimental proof as to the real cause yet. > > I've personally seen TP-Link and OpenWRT AP problems a few weeks ago, > but they were fixed by updating the AP to the current snapshot as of > 18th April. > > > Further, we have done no testing on collaboration, at present we are > > just looking longingly at the pretty screen of neighbourhood view , in > > these various AP environments, since our present goal is to select a > > robust , yet affordable, AP. > > That is not a sufficient test. > 100% agreed. But until we see all the pretty icons on the screen, we're not proceeding to the next step. > > What I observed was that the laptop would show it is associated, but the > AP would eventually (a few minutes) lose knowledge of the association. > > This was the problem that was fixed by an update. > Updating presently. Thanks, as always. KG > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ >
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