I currently have a single router (Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H) happily running Attitude Adjustment, and my wifi coverage is fine for my current house. I am moving into a larger house later this year, however, and I believe I'll need a second access point (i.e. OpenWRT router) to cover the whole thing. The new house is/will be wired with cat6, so I want to take advantage of that.
It seems to me that it should be as simple as setting up a second router wired to (a LAN port on) the first, not running dnsmasq or any IP routing, and simply bridging wlan with the wired ports (i.e. no WAN zone at all, all network devices in the LAN zone). So, several questions based on that setup: 1) Is it really that simple? 2) Setting the two APs to (sufficiently) different channels should avoid interference where their coverage overlaps, right? 3) For client devices to hand off properly, do I want identical or different SSIDs? 4) If identical, I presumably need to make WPA2 shared secret identical as well. Do I also need to make the wlan MAC addresses identical? 5) Assume that all of my client devices support 802.11b, g, and n. If I test out this setup using a LinkSys WRT54GL that I happen to have lying around as my second router, will its lack of 802.11n mean that any success or failure I have with devices handing off from one to the other will be pretty much meaningless for a setup with both routers supporting 802.11n? 6) Have I missed anything? --Greg _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
