setting up 2 wireless access points ?

Snow-Munki · 24 Jan 2006 at 12:40

just wanted to check, will have a wireless ASDL router one end of a building and through normal cabling another cable router both are wireless.

with regards to the wireless part, are they configured exactly the same ( same SSID etc ) or do they have to be different, remember reading it has to be different channels for roaming to be sucessful ?

Skilldibop · 24 Jan 2006 at 14:35

you need Access points. Routers won't do what your asking as they can't have the same subnet both sides. Separate subnets means separate wifi networks and lack of roaming. Ideally you need access points that support a special protcol that does this...the name of which is have a mental blank on at present.

Stupid organic brain.

Lummux · 24 Jan 2006 at 15:52

Just give them same SSID and put them on different channels, as I remember channels 1, 6 and 11 are compatible.
Then you can roam between them. I did this with three in front of me and could copy a large file from out servers, while unplugging power cables from the access points with out any interuption.

But use one of the routers as a AP eg dissable dhcp and stuff, and use a lan port rather than the wan port.

Snow-Munki · 24 Jan 2006 at 22:43

thanks, will give it a go tomorrow

tolien · 24 Jan 2006 at 23:02

Skilldibop said:
Ideally you need access points that support a special protcol that does this...the name of which is have a mental blank on at present. Stupid organic brain.

WDS.

Skilldibop · 25 Jan 2006 at 14:56

tolien said:
WDS.

Wireless Distribution Service?? perhaps if i learnt what it stood for i'd remember it.