I have a Linksys E3000 (tomato FW) in my office which covers the office and bedrooms. Unfortunately the signal has trouble penetrating through some wall of the house and I get very degraded speeds in the Kitchen and living room. So I have a second AP (D-Link DAP1522 ) hardwired to the E3000.
Originally I had the SSID the same for both AP and this was okay except that I had no way to force my devices to the better connection of the two. So I changed the SSID to unique names. The problem I have with this is that I have to manually switch AP's when moving from one zone to the other as there is still "enough" of a signal that it holds but not enough to get good throughput.
I have to imagine that this is a VERY common problem and would think that there would be some sort of solution to this. Is there?
On a side note, does 802.11ac or ad address this in any way?
Originally I had the SSID the same for both AP and this was okay except that I had no way to force my devices to the better connection of the two. So I changed the SSID to unique names. The problem I have with this is that I have to manually switch AP's when moving from one zone to the other as there is still "enough" of a signal that it holds but not enough to get good throughput.
I have to imagine that this is a VERY common problem and would think that there would be some sort of solution to this. Is there?
On a side note, does 802.11ac or ad address this in any way?