For a while I had my wireless router and a separate wireless access point (wired into the router) both set up with different SSIDs on different channels. This gave me good coverage in the house, but wasn't as transparent as I wanted it to be for everyone in the household - there were the occasional questions from younger family members about why their internet wasn't working - a result of their laptops trying to connect to an SSID that was out of range.
I wanted a setup similar to the wireless environment where I work - one SSID and one set of security settings, which work wherever I am on the campus. I did a fair amount of experimenting, and have finally settled on giving both wireless access points the *SAME SSID AND CHANNEL NUMBER* (and security/password settings). I'm not convinced it is totally correct to use the same channel number, as there is much conflicting advice on the internet (perhaps I'm just contributing to it!), but it seems to work well for me. I used iStumbler (on my MacBook) to find a suitable channel number with the lowest interference everywhere in the house. This turned out NOT to be the default channel number, which various of my neighbours seem to be using. With this setup, each roaming device in the household only needs to know about one SSID. When it is booted up it will connect to the strongest AP signal. Since the Boom is inevitably powered down when moved between locations (due to the mains requirement), when it boots up it finds the best AP. For true roaming devices, I have an iPhone, which is analagous to your SBC in this case, and it roams between the APs fairly well. Very occasionally it seems to hang on to the weaker signal when it would be better to swap to the nearer AP, but quickly toggling the WiFi on and off cures that. -- chill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
