Hello all, after doing some reading on here, i can't quite find the answer to my question.
The biggest issue i find these days is building a larger Wireless Network (Campus Style) for larger properties or multi level properties.
Generally i have already wired a Cat6 network in place, so it seems logical to me to just add AP's to the wired network in such a way as to provide an entire wireless coverage. Using the wired network as a backbone.
My common topography would be as below:
Modem/Router with DHCP ON (10.0.0.138) ---------> 24 Port Giga Switch -------> Access Point 1 (10.0.0.200) ....... Access Point 2 (10.0.0.210) ........ Access Point 3 (10.0.0.220) ........ Access Point 4 (10.0.0.230) on the Wired Ethernet, all wired in Star Topography back to the Switch on an individual Cat 6 cable.
Then in the Wireless Setting of each Access Point:
SSID = the same (eg: FREE WIFI)
Security Settings = the same
Channel = Different (trying to use 1,6 and 11)
With this set up, i am hoping for the Clients to experience a Seamless Roaming under the one SSID and just connecting to the AP with the strongest signal.
In real life, i know this is not always the case, as some clients remain stuck to the first AP even when they have physically moved into an area where the next AP is only meters away??? From what i read, this is a client based problem.
Yet i have a friend whom set up a wireless network with 3 TP-Link WA830RE Range Extenders (In AP mode, using a wired back bone) and he was able to set up HD streaming from a NAS, then walk around the property with his laptop, hoping from AP to AP without even a glitch in the HD streaming as it moved to different AP's seamlessly.
Can someone please set me straight on the Best Practice to setting up WiFi Roaming?
My ultimate goal would be to have Dual Band AP's (2.4 and 5ghz) so things like MacBooks and Ipads could use the 5Ghz network, leaving the 2.4Ghz network for other clients in the same Roaming way.
From what i have read and been told... the standard method is to use:
1. The same SSID
2. The same Security
3. Different Channels (something i haven't tried)
4. The same brand/type of AP if at all possible throughout the wireless network
5. Leave all Address Handling (DHCP) back at the Modem/Router.
I really dont want to make different SSID's if possible, as the end users are just family people and kids....
Any ideas... Am i at least trying to do it right?
Many Thanks
The biggest issue i find these days is building a larger Wireless Network (Campus Style) for larger properties or multi level properties.
Generally i have already wired a Cat6 network in place, so it seems logical to me to just add AP's to the wired network in such a way as to provide an entire wireless coverage. Using the wired network as a backbone.
My common topography would be as below:
Modem/Router with DHCP ON (10.0.0.138) ---------> 24 Port Giga Switch -------> Access Point 1 (10.0.0.200) ....... Access Point 2 (10.0.0.210) ........ Access Point 3 (10.0.0.220) ........ Access Point 4 (10.0.0.230) on the Wired Ethernet, all wired in Star Topography back to the Switch on an individual Cat 6 cable.
Then in the Wireless Setting of each Access Point:
SSID = the same (eg: FREE WIFI)
Security Settings = the same
Channel = Different (trying to use 1,6 and 11)
With this set up, i am hoping for the Clients to experience a Seamless Roaming under the one SSID and just connecting to the AP with the strongest signal.
In real life, i know this is not always the case, as some clients remain stuck to the first AP even when they have physically moved into an area where the next AP is only meters away??? From what i read, this is a client based problem.
Yet i have a friend whom set up a wireless network with 3 TP-Link WA830RE Range Extenders (In AP mode, using a wired back bone) and he was able to set up HD streaming from a NAS, then walk around the property with his laptop, hoping from AP to AP without even a glitch in the HD streaming as it moved to different AP's seamlessly.
Can someone please set me straight on the Best Practice to setting up WiFi Roaming?
My ultimate goal would be to have Dual Band AP's (2.4 and 5ghz) so things like MacBooks and Ipads could use the 5Ghz network, leaving the 2.4Ghz network for other clients in the same Roaming way.
From what i have read and been told... the standard method is to use:
1. The same SSID
2. The same Security
3. Different Channels (something i haven't tried)
4. The same brand/type of AP if at all possible throughout the wireless network
5. Leave all Address Handling (DHCP) back at the Modem/Router.
I really dont want to make different SSID's if possible, as the end users are just family people and kids....
Any ideas... Am i at least trying to do it right?
Many Thanks
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