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Seamless Roaming Orbi
So far impressed with the orbi system. Satellite firmware update was glitchy using Chrome, but worked fine in IE. I did update manually. Seamless roaming appears to be happening. You ca...
just to clear something up the orbi is NOT seamless roaming , it has band steering and ap steering but thats not technically seamless roaming
the client device stiull disconnects from one transmission to then move to another
real seamless roaming does not disconnect at all
Perhaps not true commercial grade seamless, but if you have an iPhone 6 or more try an app called Netty - it will show u the mac id of which host your connected to. I can run this on one side of the house, then run speedtest while quickly moving to the other side of the house and close netty and reopen it and I get a different mac ID for the closest satellite node with the screen never switched off and no loss in speedtest. I noticed though my old android samsung tablet likes to keep latched to the same MAC ID (On android a great program is Wi-Fi Analyzer).
So do any of the mesh solutions out there offer true commercial grade seamless, or is it AP steering as above? Thanks.
cyberprashant wrote:
So do any of the mesh solutions out there offer true commercial grade seamless, or is it AP steering as above? Thanks.
Currently only Ubiquiti's UniFi (note: NOT the same thing as AmpliFi!).
Rodney
rhester72 wrote:
cyberprashant wrote:
So do any of the mesh solutions out there offer true commercial grade seamless, or is it AP steering as above? Thanks.Currently only Ubiquiti's UniFi (note: NOT the same thing as AmpliFi!).
Rodney
yes and only then in its old series ap's
seems even they have dropped zero handoff configuration and are also now going the mesh route with ap and band steering
i do agree that band steering and ap steering help but to get the major benefit out of them you need client devices that support the same standards and we are yet to see these in the market place , so until then we can be stuck with sticky clients that are stubborn and dont like moving between ap's / mesh points mainly because they have been designed to grab hold of a single transmission and not let go
beamforming believe it or not is part of the reason the client adapters are sticky as well as the transmission follows the client around the house trying to keep it connected