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Wired Connection to Satellite
Is it possible to use Ethernet to connect router and satellites?
Maybe he just expected it to have the same functionality as every other AP and switch with the added capability of wireless backhaul such that the product was a net improvement over the industry standard, not a poorly-conceived trade-off of a crippled AP with an added band rather than a more flexible AP.
I'm not in a position to tell strangers what combination of wired and wireless they need for their particular situation. I'm quite sure that you aren't either.
powrby4d wrote:
I'm not in a position to tell strangers what combination of wired and wireless they need for their particular situation. I'm quite sure that you aren't either.
is that not why we are here ??? and in every case if structured ethernet is present you are paying far to much for a mesh system that wont be used and where a few wireless access points achieve the same thing and in fact work better
I don't understand this stuff, so please be gentle.
I want to have a wifi system with multiple acces s points that acts like a single AP, most labs and offices I've worked in have been set up that way-- one ssid, one password, no obvious switching between APs. My main problem is between my house and shop, the signal from the house in the barn is too weak to work, but too strong to trigger automatic switching to the AP in the barn most of the time. This means I have to manually change the WIFI settings on my phone maybe 10 times a day, a real PITA, as I go back and forth.
Orbi seems to do what I want, but I'd need a wired connection for the remote AP because the signal is poor. Based on this discussion, it seems there are alternate approaches to do this using my existing wired network. Reading about this, I see some posters who say you can simply set the APs to the same channel and ssid's and it will work that way, others who say it is much more complicated and that won't work.
I own a half dozen netgear wirerless routers of various vintages, and would be happy to buy something new if necessary, if I know what to do. There is a cat6 wire connected to a netgear gigibit switch providing ethernet to the remote building. What's the best way to get seamless wifi coverage?
Thanks very much for any advice!
You already have an AP in the barn, but your phone is not switching because the signal from the AP in the house is too strong. You should be able to make this work with the gear you have now.
Try reducing the power on the AP in your house. You probably just need to reduce power on the 2.4 GHz band. This should force your phone to swich to the barn AP when in the barn.
If you buy new hardware, you could try the wired APs from Ubiquiti. You can set a minimum RSSI level, below which the AP will disconnect your phone. This would prevent the phone in the barn from connecting to the house AP.
It will also help seamless roaming if you use the same SSID, same password, and same security settings between the house and barn AP, but use different channels on the two.
I'll give this a try, thanks. The router is currently on the side of the house nearest the barn, and gives poor/no connection in my music room on the far side of the house. I'll try moving it to a more central location and perhaps solve both problems. I appreciate the response.
Doesn't Mesh allow hanoff while multiple WAP's do not?
sugino wrote:Doesn't Mesh allow hanoff while multiple WAP's do not?
handoff is a client desision at this stage as no clients have the standard to allow the AP or mesh to control what the client does
however both mesh and multiple ap's allow roaming
While it is true there is no standard on client handoffs, mesh systems generally do roam from AP to AP much more seamlessly in well-designed systems. Our older meraki system was so seamless that it only dropped at the max one packet between handoffs. It was completely transparent and covered 4 acres.
