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can you tag a ssid to a access point
I have multiple WAX620 access points. Is it possible to assign a specific SSID to a particular access point, so that clients always connect to that one, rather than being influenced by signal quality...
I meant at a high level, let's say you have two access points broadcasting the same SSID. You want the client to connect to Access Point 1, since the signal strength is stronger. If you can tag the client to always connect to Access Point 1, that's what I mean by 'tagging'
Understand from where you are coming from of course. Not the first time I read about such ideas here. Is very likely an industry standard WiFi client does (sooner or later, and load of the APs allowing) associate with the "best" AP available. Sure, I see some random (and very rare) conditions, like an AP restarting and going through the DFS process.
Does this cause any real problems on the connectivity, or is this idea purely an University theoretical laboratory green field idea?
For reasons, this is what he standardisation of wireless networks allows - this is -not- plugging an Ethernet device to a certain port.
Keep in mind tagging has a very different meaning in networking.
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