Soulkeeper;576218 Wrote: 
> If you want to connect your Touch to two wireless routers without
> entering SSID/password, the router's IP is irrelevant AFAIK. As long as
> the SSID and the password (and possibly also the other encryption
> settings) are the same, the Touch should be able to connect
> automagically to both.

I don't believe that is actually true.

Example case: my icky old router was finally annoying me enough it was
time to swap it out for one I had lying around.  I didn't feel like
changing SSID's, so the new router took on the SSID of the old.

Datapoints: 
my Linux netbook noticed me unplug things and install the new router,
but was happily online.

my ip3k devices (SB2/SBReceiver) did the same thing.

my phone actually worked (it didn't like the WPA/AES combo I had on
the old router which doesn't do WPA2, but lets me use the
non-standard-but-secure AES).

The SBController and Touch, however would NOT reassociate.

See, in addition to the SSID, many clients keep track of the router mac
ID's to make sure there is no spoofing going on.  This annoyed the SBC
and Touch -- they saw the same SSID but different MAC and refused to
connect.

So, no, I wouldn't expect "use the same SSID" to work.

(The encryption settings did change -- from WPA/AES to WPA2/AES, but
months ago when I forced it to be WPA/AES the Touch/SBC didn't have too
much of an issue with it.)

The good news: the Radio certainly remembers networks it has been on. 
I would assume the Touch/SBC do as well.  If I take my Radio to the
inlaws, it remembers the network it was on before and connects right
up.


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