We went down the road of having the same ssid on each ap at a hotel were serve. It is 6 floors and we have 18 ap's throughout. Out of those there are only 12 that have hard wire connections(we are unable to run any new cat5), the others link via wds. We try and setup the wds so that the unwired units are only one hop from a wired unit. Note we are using inherited cisco ap for most of the locations and some pico2, that we added for better coverage. When we set ssid the same for everything, we had all kinds of issues, what we saw was windows changing ap's automatically if it got a better signal from another ap, thus dropping the connection and reconnecting. We decided to name each ap for the room it is located, that way the users could lock into an ap. It does also help with trouble shooting when someone calls in saying they can't connect. I did see post about what is the main issue most users have, that little switch to turn off/on the wireless cards. That is our number 1 issue we see.
------------------------------------ Aerowire Alan Long Director of Network Operations [email protected] 687 North Dean Road Auburn, AL 36830 tel: 3342759998 mobile: 3344446092 ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kristian Hoffmann Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:13 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Hotel We've gone back and forth between using the same SSID and numbered SSIDs (e.g. Hotel Name 1, Hotel Name 2). The benefit to the latter is that it's easier to troubleshoot a broken AP, given that you have a map of room and AP locations. If people in room X can't see the AP with the SSID "Hotel Name 2" even though you know they're right next to it, then you know you have a problem with an AP. You lose the ability for hotel guests to roam without disconnecting, but that probably doesn't happen very often. If all the SSIDs are the same, then you have to get the BSSID somehow to determine which AP they're on or can see. -Kristian On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 17:41 -0500, Jerry Richardson wrote: > same ssid = yes > same channel = no. use 1, 6, 11 > wds = no > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 3, 2010, at 2:30 PM, "Steve Barnes" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a hotel that it takes 3 AP to cover well. I am going to use > > 3 MT411 all wired back to a RB450 router for hotspot. I plan to set > > all the 411 to bridged and all the same channel and SSID. Is this > > the best way. Is there any reason to do WDS? > > > > Steve Barnes > > RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service > > > > > > --- > > --- > > --- > > --- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > --- > > --- > > --- > > --- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2718 - Release Date: 03/03/10 01:34:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
