On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:02:39 +0000, fred wrote:

I think there is something in this, you keep the same SSID but have to
encourage the end client to hand over from one access point to another
as the signal strength varies.

My ancient iPAQ has a setting about hand off but I've not seen it in more
recent WiFi enabled kit. So I suspect it's in the protocol but "just
works". The iPAQ only does 802.11b IIRC...

Might be an idea for the o/p to experiment with setting SSID to same,
encryption same but channels different and see if the setup will hand
over.

I think it's worth a try with same everything and see what happens. If
there are problems try changing the channels used (and fixing them)
bearing in mind that only 1, 6 and 11 don't over lap.

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Cheers
Dave.