If the client disconnects and searches for another network or
disconnects because of weak quality/signal, then yeah, I can see it. But
we have four Unifi APs in the office and this does not happen. Phones,
tablets, laptops, whatever roam from AP to AP without any problems. I've
tested it with a constant ping running while moving around the office
and there may be some high latency or a few lost packets as it roams to
the next AP, but it's generally seamless. And we're not using UBNT's
"zero handoff" experimental stuff which AFAIK requires the same channel
on every AP.
On 3/27/2015 4:45 PM, Glen Waldrop wrote:
What seems to be the major snag is that the client typically releases
DHCP and renews every time it disconnects and reconnects to WIFI.
In my experience, seemless roaming is set up with a static IP. DHCP
gave me about 3 seconds dead time when I swapped. This was with DD-WRT
on Linksys back in 2002ish all the way to current playing with Linux,
UBNT, MT and a little bit of Cisco.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 3:52 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Wifi Roaming
We have a metal building with a number of inside metal walls. Have 3
Mikrotik 2.4ghz wifi access points inside each covering a certain
section. They just act as access points and hook to main router that
hands out DHCP, IPv6, etc. How do I get iphones etc. to seamlessly
roam between these as you walk around the building?
I seem to remember in Mikrotik training years ago they said put them
all on same essid and channel to do this. Not sure if that's right or
I am remembering right. Seems like my ipad refuses to work at times
and I must turn wifi off and back on to restore. I set them all on
different essids and channels now and I am not having much better
luck.
Seemed to have a similar problem at my house even though I only had a
single Mikrotik there. I resolved that mostly by adding a second card
running 5ghz.
Any ideas?
