What advantage does mesh have over fast-handoff or other roaming technologies?
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "ralph" <ralphli...@bsrg.org> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>, "Blair Davis" <the...@wmwisp.net> Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 3:53:22 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] 802.11 and roaming Agreed -.Blair must have been using autonomous APs. I have done Cisco outdoor installs with as many as 300 APs, CAPWAP based. These were mesh. Roaming went great. The City Manager drove with me in the car whilst streaming video, talking on VoIP and doing Email simultaneously. She didn’t notice a single interruption. I’m not saying that Cisco hung the moon, and they are horrendously overpriced, but their controller based architecture works well- especially if your backhauls are hardwired. It is too bad UBNT has not figured out how to do mesh, and doesn’t appear to be interested. It would be so much nicer in our City-Wide deployments to not have to use $3,000.00 Tropos or Cisco APs! Ralph From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Thomas Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 2:47 AM To: WISPA General List; Blair Davis Subject: Re: [WISPA] 802.11 and roaming It sounds like you didn't try Cisco CAPWAP controller based APs. You have very fine control of how they roam. John Blair Davis < the...@wmwisp.net > wrote: I've tried MikroTik. I've tried Cisco. I've tried UniFi. I pretty much don't think there is a working way to roam from AP to AP with 802.11 in an open system. The client holds on to the weak AP long after there are stronger AP's to talk to. I think this is just the way it works. Now, we are giving each AP a unique ESSID but keeping them bridged on the wired side and requiring the user to change the connection when out of range... Not the best answer, but it works much better for the clients who don't move much... I'd love a better answer... -- West Michigan Wireless ISP Allegan, Michigan 49010 269-686-8648 A Division of: Camp Communication Services, INC Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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