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Good morning 300 quare meters, it is home and office. Today the WiFi coverage is provided by 3 AP, different brand, different technology, the signal is good everywhere, but it is not the same networ...
The hand-over between two AP does typically take a fraction of a second, almost not audible during a VoIP call. In my understanding, 802.11r does only help where EAP, RADIUS & Co. are involved, as these hand-overs typically take several seconds.
OrbiPro supports 3 SSID and does support roaming and client load balance.
One SSID for office work
One SSID for family
One SSID with welcome splash page for Guest (Splash page is optional)
But if you want more advance features like VLAN and full controll. you can look at WAC505/WAC510/WAC540.
you have three hardware choices in WAC5xx series. each has its advantages. all of them will serve your purpose.
WAC505 (Omni-Directional coverage. the antenna pattern is almost circular, has good coverage, can be put on table, wall or celing)
WAC510 (slightly directional towards the face of the AP, suited for all and ceiling mount, designed for longer range)
WAC540 (Tri-Band Omni-Directional coverage. Since it is 3 radios and PoE+ power, it also have a larger range than WAC505)
All of them can be managed by Insight manager.
(This is $10 fee per device per year, you can try it out for free trail at www.insight.netgear.com )
Roaming :
Definition :
Seemless roaming : Clients ability to roam on same SSID (different BSSID) and maintiance network conntivity(L2 roaming). but there maybe few packets loss.
Fast roaming: This is very use when WPA-Enterprise is used.
As per the Wifi protocol, "When to roam" and "where to roam" is purly depends on wireless client.
How every all the above netgear APs and OrbiPro helps clients make a better decision/choices.
Netgear WAC5xx APs send out information via 802.11K/V beacons that clients can use to roam better.
When managed by Insight, 3 of WAC5xx will talk to each other (like a cluster and create a mobility-group)
That allows them to exchange message and a special logic called OKC. If the wireless clients can take advantage of OKC and 11R. it will also help. Insight also help set up RX RSSI thresholds to help with sticky clients.
Standalone APs also have RX-RSSI threadhold that helps with sticky clients.
nmhTester wrote:OrbiPro supports 3 SSID and does support roaming and client load balance.
sonus_faber stay far away from Orbi unless you have a need for K.I.S.S. wireless Mesh. ... Sorry nmhTester - chime back when Orbi Pro is a business class product like the Insight manageable switches and WAC. Hint: VLAN support. by VLAN RSTP, ... User friendly Mesh (just "throw in" wireless, wired, on whatever switch, no problems with network switch STP, in whatever combination, no need to configure wired or daisychain or whatever - these things must be done automatically. So you see .... I was never involved in Orbo or Orbi Pro Beta .... otherwise Netgear would have heard a lot of noise.)
nmhTester wrote:Netgear WAC5xx APs send out information via 802.11K/V beacons that clients can use to roam better.
Mandatory in the year 2019. Don't use anything different.
nmhTester wrote:When managed by Insight, 3 of WAC5xx will talk to each other (like a cluster and create a mobility-group)
That allows them to exchange message and a special logic called OKC. If the wireless clients can take advantage of OKC and 11R. it will also help. Insight also help set up RX RSSI thresholds to help with sticky clients.
That is a valid argument for going WAC and Insight.
nmhTester wrote:Standalone APs also have RX-RSSI threadhold that helps with sticky clients.
Yes, this will make an associated STA disconnect early, and start the wireless client to re-associate earlier - if you are lucky and re near enough to another of your APs, it will find one.
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