RAX40 WiFi roaming just work

Hello all,

Just a sharing of my home network upgrade recently, to my surprise the wifi roaming works quite well together with my old router.

In the past I have a network setup as follow:

Linksys EA6700 wifi router <-> TP-Link RE210 repeater (connected via wifi not cable)

In this network design I have the well known wifi roaming problem that my iPhone keep connected to the EA6700 wifi router at my living room, even though the signal is very week and not usable at all. I have to choose the RE210 wifi repeater wifi manually to make it work.

I live with this frustrating network design until the RE210 repeater broke recently. I am not going to buy another wifi repeater because the roaming issue was driving me nuts already. I have bought a Netgear RAX40, hoping a single wifi router can cover my home without a repeater, however two of my rooms still not getting enough wifi signal.

At the end I decided to reuse my old wifi router together with the new RAX40 as follow:

Netgear RAX40 <-> Linksys EA6700 (AP mode, connected via a CAT5 cable, same SSID)

In this setup the wifi roaming works quite well surprisingly, though 802.11k, v ,r are not supported on my RAX40 nor EA6700 AFAIK. On my iPhone I have an app to ping 1.1.1.1 every 200ms (0.2 second), when I walk from my living room to my bed room the ping packet dropped for two times only.

I am very happy with this new network setup though it is still not perfect because of some minor packet dropped during wifi roam, I believe a mesh network can solve this completely. And it is a CAT5 cable (not CAT5e) so the max negotiate link speed is up to 100mbps, I have no way to upgrade the cable because it is built inside my wall years ago.

Regards,