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One router & 2 APs, what do I set to avoid having to connect to different networks?
I have a Netgear AC1750 router and 2 EX6100 access points at 2 ends of my home. If I first connected to the internet to AP#1 (in Window's Network & Sharing Center as it had the strongest signal), as ...
Ehhh - you've reached the limits of my experience now - I don't use NetGenie so I have no idea what's to be expected when you're using it.
With the system I described, you could possibly be right next to an access point and not connected to it - the Windows client is what will determine when you switch access points, and that is, to some extent going to be determined by signal strength, and by a Windows setting generally referred to as "roaming aggression" - it'll be in your wireless card properties but may show up with different names.
Question - do your EX6100s have static addresses - I would suggest static or at the very least DHCP reserved ones.
You should not have address conflict issues with this system because all addresses are being assigned by the router's DHCP server.