T i m wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:42:08 +0100, Chris Green wrote:

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Wouldn't you simply set the SSID and password on all AP's to the same
so that clients could / would reconnect to the loudest AP as required
(when reconnecting) albeit not the same handover as on a full system?

No user intervention required though or was that what you were talking
about above?

I think the difference is that with mesh the handover is forced/encouraged
by the mesh 'routers' whereas otherwise it's down to the client system
and they don't, in general, move from WiFi to WiFi very easily.

Yes, that was my thought when you said what you did. ;-)

Having researched this some more it seems that 'mesh' *isn't* anything
particularly special. Whatever you do 'roaming' is down to what the
*client* decides to do and all the WiFi access points can do is be as
helpful as possible.

There are a number of WiFi standards which, if implemented in both
access point and client may help, i.e. 11r, 11v and 11s.

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Chris Green
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