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rumelk
Jan 28, 2015Aspirant
One Large Wifi Network Setup - WN802T
Hi All Im sure its been asked hundreds of times but i wanted somebody to shed some light on whether the following can be done. I have 3 Netgear WN802T access points in my home and wanted to know wh...
fordem
Jan 28, 2015Mentor
You can wire the access points back to the switches as shown in your diagram, however you will not get seamless roaming - your mobile devices can only associate with one access point at a time, they MUST disassociate from the first before they can associate with a second, and this when you will lose the connection - this will happen even if you repeat
Please note, this is a limitation of the mobile device and not the access points - your mobile devices were just not intended to connect to more than one wireless access point at a time.
I also want to say, just in passing, that some of the issues you are experiencing are caused by an incorrect understanding of wireless technology - repeater mode, or to give it it's correct name, wireless repeater mode is by definition, wireless, you cannot operate a wireless repeater using an ethernet connection - that requires access point mode, and point to point bridge mode is for bridging wired networks.
What a wireless repeater does is first receive the transmission and then re-broadcast or repeat it.