Yes, exactly. Roaming is up to the client/station and there certainly
are stupid ones. I haven't seen any problems with 802.11n based clients
though.
On 3/27/2015 5:37 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
I'm wondering how much it depends on the device. My Older cell phone
really does not want to disconnect from an AP, if the AP get's really
weak (by moving away from it), it won't try to associate to a closer
one unless it completely disconnects from it's active AP.
On 3/27/2015 5:32 PM, George Skorup (Cyber Broadcasting) wrote:
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?
