Hi there,
I wonder if OpenWISP2 suits my scenario and didn't find the answer by using Google and watch videos, so I hope to find a competent answer here. The scenario is wifi in narrow town houses as they are common in south east Asia where 1 level has 1 or 2 rooms and 1 house has on average 3 to 5 levels. This house (and the roof top) needs wifi and usually people start to deploy routers on every level or in every room and use multiple SSIDs numbering trough like hanahouse2.1 for the router in room 1 on level 2 and so on. this has drawbacks like the phone tries to stay connected to the wifi at the entrance while sitting on the rooftop, forcing the AP to use a slow compatibility mode which slows down the wifi for everyone. This is just the extreme case but especially in hostels, where many people with all kind of devices login and move around its very valid. I read about managed wifi where a central computer runs a controller that monitors the signal strength of every device that is registered in the network that is comprised of multiple APs sharing the same SSID and security settings, telling the APs to disconnect devices when they have better connection to another AP in the network to force the clients to switch to the better AP. I try to figure out if OpenWISP2 delivers such a controller and if I would be capable of implementing this. I have a degree in IT and played around with repeaters and stuff earlier in my career. I tried to make clients switch in our office. I was using same SSIDs but different channels on 3 different APs. I used a low transmit power and disabled fallback (low speed) wifi profiles to limited success. Therefore I really want to go for the approach to actively disconnect clients as it seems to be the cleanest general purpose and client independent solution to me. Thanks in advance for any thoughts! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
