Roaming is almost totally client card dependent. Theoretically, when the signal gets weak and the card has a high error rate, it should associate to a stronger access point, but the exact method in which a card roams is not spelled out in the 802.11 specifications. As mentioned in another posting, the Cisco cards, and I suspect a few other ones, can be configured or tweaked to attach to certain access points or to actively seek the stronger ones.
One way to help cards roam is to configure the access points to support only 11 Mbps. When the signal gets weak, and the card wants to drop to 5.5, 2, or 1 Mbps, it will be forced to roam to another stronger access point because the access point will refuse packets at those slower speeds. Be careful if you do this, because there may be locations in your office that don't support 11 Mbps, so you might need to configure it for 5.5 Mbps and 11 Mbps. Also, I don't know if the BEFW11S4 allows you to limit the connections to certain speeds.... Kind regards, Frank >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, September 16, 2004 7:01:49 AM >>> We have a 6 floors office, in which we have installed 4 units of Linksys BEFW11S4. All these units are configured to work as Acess Points, as we do not need or wish to allow internet access. Basically its just wireless LAN within our office. All BEFW11S4 have same SSID. Now, for example, when my Laptop#1 is on 2nd floor, and connected to BEFW11S4 # 1, its getting good signals.. when I move to floor number 6, ofcourse the signals of BEFW11S4 # 1 get very very weak, and on that floor signals of BEFW11S4 # 3 has very good signals. I want that my wireless LAN card, should automatically detect that which BEFW11S4 is sending stronger signals, and it should hook itself to that unit. Please advise that is it possible that this hopping from one BEFW11S4 to another takes place automatically ? if yes, then how do I make those settings ? Please advise Omar [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******* Wireless LAN Weblog - WLAN Forum http://www.wireless--lan.com/ Wireless LAN Search http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=6750665 Wireless LAN Jobs - WLAN Jobs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wlanjobs/ http://www.azhttp.com/ <a href="http://www.azhttp.com/";> Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership</a> http://www.science-fairs.com/ <a href="http://www.science-fairs.com/";> Science Fairs</a> If you got this from someone else you can join at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/5AhqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ******* Wireless LAN Weblog - WLAN Forum http://www.wireless--lan.com/ Wireless LAN Search http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=6750665 Wireless LAN Jobs - WLAN Jobs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wlanjobs/ http://www.azhttp.com/ <a href="http://www.azhttp.com/";> Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership</a> http://www.science-fairs.com/ <a href="http://www.science-fairs.com/";> Science Fairs</a> If you got this from someone else you can join at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
