hey frederico, thanks for your response. i will look into LEDE and go on from their. I have some experience with OpenWRT but if I can have it easy I prefer easy :)
best regards, sebastian Am Montag, 20. November 2017 16:33:07 UTC+7 schrieb Federico Capoano: > > Hi Sebastien, > > OpenWISP allows to remotely configure any hardware that supports > OpenWRT/LEDE and allows to configure any feature that OpenWRT/LEDE supports. > > Is commonly used in the scenario you described, some people configured > 802.11r through it which may help you in your case. > Remember though, OpenWISP is not a point and click solution. If you don't > have experience with OpenWRT/LEDE and are looking for something easy to > use, you may get frustrated by OpenWISP, at least with the current version > of late 2017. > > I suggest you to look if LEDE (the most actively developed OpenWRT fork) > supports the feature you need, if the answer is yes, then OpenWISP can do > it. > > Best luck! > Federico > > > On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 8:01:06 AM UTC+1, Sebastian Heyden wrote: >> >> 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.
