Hello All,
First post to the forum. I've got a 3500 square foot stick-built (2 story center-hall colonial) house with an un-finished basement. We have an attached deck and also use the yard a lot for entertaining. Internet service is FiOS 50/50 with their 802.11/n Actiontec router in the basement with the wireless turned off. We have approximately 10 hard-wired devices connected through an older managed gigabit switch to the Actiontec. They are a mixture of PCs, PS3, Roku3, HT Receiver, smart-TVs, etc.
For wireless, I have a current generation Apple Airport Extreme and 2 Airport Expresses as WAPs, hard wired to the switch. The AP Extreme is in one end of the house in a downstairs office, one of the Expresses is at the other end of our downstairs, and the other Express is more centrally located upstairs. All three Airports are using the same SSID for 2.4 GHz, with a separate joint SSID for the 5 GHz band. The APs are configured as Apple recommends. The wireless clients are a few PC laptops (all 2-3 years old) and about 6 iOS devices from iPhone 3GS to current.
The problem is that hand off between APs is not very smooth. We wind up having to turn the wireless off on the iOS devices and turn back on as we move from the house. What I would ultimately like to have is a single rock-solid Wireless AP to handle the whole house with good performance everywhere, but that seems unrealistic. Can a single AP do it all, or any other suggestions to optimize?
Thanks,
Tom
First post to the forum. I've got a 3500 square foot stick-built (2 story center-hall colonial) house with an un-finished basement. We have an attached deck and also use the yard a lot for entertaining. Internet service is FiOS 50/50 with their 802.11/n Actiontec router in the basement with the wireless turned off. We have approximately 10 hard-wired devices connected through an older managed gigabit switch to the Actiontec. They are a mixture of PCs, PS3, Roku3, HT Receiver, smart-TVs, etc.
For wireless, I have a current generation Apple Airport Extreme and 2 Airport Expresses as WAPs, hard wired to the switch. The AP Extreme is in one end of the house in a downstairs office, one of the Expresses is at the other end of our downstairs, and the other Express is more centrally located upstairs. All three Airports are using the same SSID for 2.4 GHz, with a separate joint SSID for the 5 GHz band. The APs are configured as Apple recommends. The wireless clients are a few PC laptops (all 2-3 years old) and about 6 iOS devices from iPhone 3GS to current.
The problem is that hand off between APs is not very smooth. We wind up having to turn the wireless off on the iOS devices and turn back on as we move from the house. What I would ultimately like to have is a single rock-solid Wireless AP to handle the whole house with good performance everywhere, but that seems unrealistic. Can a single AP do it all, or any other suggestions to optimize?
Thanks,
Tom