[SOCALWUG] Re: Reg WiF/WiMax questions

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:25:53 -0800

You're right and this is fine for home environments.  But setting this up in a hotspot environment just isn't feasible.  Better to have different SSID's.  I've handled too many tech support calls in multiple AP environments with customers who complain about Windows trying to switch off between AP's.  Like you said, the DHCP request doesn't take long because it keeps the same IP, but there can be an annoyance if you're downloading something and that stupid bubble keeps popping up.

--Rick

On 3/2/06, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Rick Dobbs wrote:

> The problem with doing it this way is that if you're somewhere in the
> middle, Windows can switch between AP's a LOT, which can get really
> annoying, especially on a system running DHCP.

If the ESSID doesn't change, Windows *should* attempt to re-acquire the
same address via DHCP, which is a somewhat shorter process than a
cold-start DHCP request.

In fact, if the ESSID doesn't change, Windows shouldn't transition
link-state, in which case, DHCP is not re-run at all.

search for "skip the DHCP lease releasing" in
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/wlansupp.mspx
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