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Orbi, roaming and sticky clients
Hi there, we would like to have overall wifi over two floors with reliable roaming, but dont't need incredible fast speed. Instead we hope to get rid of "sticky client" problems we had in the pas...
HansHansen wrote:.................. To me it sounds too good to be true that the client thinks all the time he is talking to one big AP and moving around is no longer a problem. I could easily live with the restrictions of Zero Handoff (only 1 channel for all Clients and therefore less speed). .............
Orbi uses the same principle "Zero Handoff". All Orbi nodes operate on the same channel that makes the client not making many handoffs as long as it's not jumping between the bands.
HansHansen wrote:......
If I understand correctly, Orbi seem to have the cabability to support useful features, but does acutally not make use of all of them (e.g. 802.11k). Other features are used, but does not seem to work properly with the Clients (e.g. band steering or 11k measurement requests). ......
Orbi supports roaming standards 802.11k, 11r and 11v, and also band steering.
