On Jun 17, 2004, at 6:52 PM, Shawn Van Every wrote:
Hi All,
Wondering if anyone out there has any insight into the following problem:
I have two Netgear WG602 Wireless Access Points which support something
called WDS (Wireless Distribution System). One is connected to the LAN via
ethernet and is setup as an Access Point (as per Netgear Technical Support,
which oddly enough is a different setup from what the documentation says but
that isn't the point) and one is setup as a wireless repeater. Now that all
works fine, the problem is that I can not jump from one access point to
another without first turning off airport (using a PowerBook with all the
latest from Apple) and then turning it back on.
In other words, when I walk out of range of one but still in range of the
other the Airport card does not automatically switch access points.
Usually it would do that...
I am
told that it is supposed to but it just doesn't. And yes, I have the same
SSID on both, I have tried it on the same wireless channel and on different
channels (again documentation vs technical support), upgraded firmware and
all that. Essentially it is working but my mac doesn't like to switch
access points. I am thinking that Airport is bound to an access point via
it's MAC address and that is the problem but I am not really sure.
Are you sure that the 2 APs are definitely within range of one another. The might not be "joining" one another and instead you have 2 networks that are next to one another named the same thing.
Anyone know anything about this?
Any software for OS X that allows control over which wireless network you
are connected to?
There is a program called iStumbler to see what wireless nets are around but the Airport dropdown menu in the menubar is all you need to control what network you're connected to.
Michael
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