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Hi Evan;

We used this at our office.

http://www.dlink.com/category/productcategories/?cid=127

For the money (less than Cisco) it worked reasonably well but it does
need to have a network router/dhcp system handling the networking.
It's not a router, it's a switch with wireless 'pods' that you hang in
logical places.  We did hit issues when we got to a couple hundred
wireless devices with multiple VPNs running through it, but by this
time it had been taken over by another group and I suspect the issues
were more related to limitations on the PIX we had running behind it,
or misconfiguration thereof.

At home I currently have 2 generic wireless 'n' routers linked with
WDS.  They both use the same channel and SSID.  I have linux laptops,
an iPad and several androids that all move seamlessly to whichever AP
has the strongest signal.  It works great with 2 nodes, not sure how
well it scales.

You don't really need to spend a lot depending on the details of your
use case, but you do get what you pay for.  Make sure you leave room
to scale.

Regards;

Brad




On 05/23/2012 03:37 PM, Evan Pettrey wrote:
> Good afternoon LOPSA,
> 
> I'm currently in the process of planning a somewhat large wifi
> network that will need to make use of several devices to extend the
> network to all corners of the necessary coverage area. In doing
> research for this project I've noticed that the majority of the
> extenders/repeaters on places like NewEgg simply rebroadcast the
> wireless network so if you walk from one repeater's coverage area
> to another it has to unjoin the previous network and join the next
> one.
> 
> However, I want to setup a seamless integration so that as you walk
> all around the covered area, it can jump from AP to AP without any
> interruptions.
> 
> 
> Can somebody please recommend a device that they've personally used
> and can vouch for that will do this? Preferably not too expensive
> but I'm not sure a cheaper solution exists for this.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> -Evan
> 
> 
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