Is this where I'm supposed to join in on the pissing contest and fire off my accolades as to my wireless accomplishments and how long I've been doing it? I'm not sure what the point of that was otherwise.
I don't think that thinking that anying in wireless, especially 802.11x, is an absolute is a very good idea, the amount of variables involved is astronomical. Yes, that may be "how it's designed" but my car is designed to drive on highways, but I can also drive it in to a lake, which, interestingly enough, a few people would prefer I do.
--Rick
On 3/2/06, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That makes sense, setting the ESSID to a common name... RF-wise a field strength study would show placement based on common point low signal... I am going to fiddle with that here at home - might add a third to see what that will do, too.
(Chewing on it...)
RichardOn 3/2/06, Jim Thompson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rick Dobbs wrote:
> You're right and this is fine for home environments.
its actually designed for enterprise environments.
> But setting this up in a hotspot environment just isn't feasible.
> Better to have different SSID's.
See below.
> 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.
You can't control which driver the customer is using. Not everybody
uses Windows Wireless Configuration. (if they did, your problems would
be less severe.)
> 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. I was doing hotspots before other people had heard of 802.11 or
had cards in their hands.
In particular, in airports.
I always set the ESSID to a common name when the APs are connected to
the same ethernet backend.
Thats the way 802.11 was *designed*, after all.
Jim
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"Being a bit scattered tends to be a trait of highly imaginative people."
The more you rattle the marbles around in your brain, the more creative new connections you make, as it were
– connections that might be lost on those focusing intently on just the red ones.
- Ed Vogel, University of Oregon, Department of Neuroscience
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