On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:52:44PM -0400, Jack Chastain wrote:
> > You may want to set up your wifi differently, so that it actually
> > works as roaming.  In this case you'd set each AP to the same SSID and
> > same encryption options, but diverse channels (ie 1 and 11, or 1, 6,
> > and 11, on 2.4ghz.  On 5ghz just pick two channels that are
> > different).
> >
> 
> Not entirely sure I have this ability with the little extender. I will look.

Generally repeaters can do Bad Things and at least cut your bandwidth
in half; a much better option if you can is to get a second AP and run
cat5 to it, run it in bridge/ap mode (not router), with the
aforementioned same ssid/crypto and different channel.

-m

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