I recently set up another access point in my yard to give better wireless coverage to my shop. Currently it's on a different channel and different SSID than my current one. This works alright and my phone or laptop will hop on whichever is closest most of the time. But it got me wondering, would I be better off having the second access point have the same SSID? Would a device be more likely to switch back and forth between APs if the SSID was the same? We did this at BYU with enteprise wifi APs, which supposedly did some kind of fancy handoff between APs as the client roamed. I realize on a non-enterprise system there's no handoff between APs, so connections might drop when the client interface reinitializes, but that happens anyway with my existing setup and doesn't cause me any heartburn. Do any of you run two APs in your house with the same SSID but different channel?
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