If an AP isn't working right or on the same channel that's a different story. It would have helped you to set the ESSID differently but you could have (I think Windows can) specify the BSSID to whatever AP is working.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM, MDK <rea...@muddyfrogwater.us> wrote: > LOL, you haven't? I learned new words to express my frustration over this > a few years back, when I had to spend 2 days stuck in a hotel with nothing > else to do but try to work remotely. Same SSID and half of the AP's were > on the same freaking channel, too. > > I jumped AP's about every 2-6 minutes, as 3 of them were all about the same > RSSI, and none of them were good. I was trying to do remote desktop over > it and even IRC, none of which would stay working. > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:58 AM > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Hotel > >> Same ssid different channels...hotels anywhere from 2 to 12 APs. Never >> seen >> anyone flip between two of them too much so that it causes a complaint. >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue >> that counts.” >> --- Winston Churchill >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Robert West >> <robert.w...@just-micro.com>wrote: >> >>> Actually I've had them all set up on the same SSID with same channel but >>> these are smaller 2 floor hotels. Never get any complaints like that >>> caused >>> by the system, always the client PC. >>> >>> Bob- >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >>> Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer >>> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:54 AM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Hotel >>> >>> I'd NOT use all of them on the same channel and the same ssid. >>> >>> Computers in boarder line coverage zones will flip flop between systems >>> and >>> you'll get complaints from the slow speeds etc. >>> >>> You'll also cause interference to the other systems when one ding bat >>> downloads a movie and chews up a lot of capacity. >>> >>> marlon >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Steve Barnes" <st...@pcswin.com> >>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:33 AM >>> Subject: [WISPA] Hotel >>> >>> >>> >I have a hotel that it takes 3 AP to cover well. I am going to use 3 >>> MT411 >>> >>> >all wired back to a RB450 router for hotspot. I plan to set all the 411 >>> to >>> >>> >bridged and all the same channel and SSID. Is this the best way. Is >>> there >>> >>> >any reason to do WDS? >>> > >>> > Steve Barnes >>> > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> > WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> > http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> > >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> > >>> > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> > >>> > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> > >>> > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> WISPA Wants You! 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