[TriLUG] Multiple wireless access points

[Jeff Groves]

Wouldn't you want both of your SSIDs to be the same?  That's what I do 
at my house with my multiple WAPs and it _usually_ hands off to another 
WAP without issue. 

Sometimes, I do have to turn the radio in the laptop off and on (through 
the GUI) to get it to see the nearer WAP, though.

Jeff G.

Steve Kuekes wrote:

>I've got a problem using multiple wireless access points in my house.
>
>For some reason I can't get signals from one end of my house to the other from my downstairs access point.  So I decided to solve the problem by installing an additional access point upstairs connected by wire to my main network downstairs.
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>So my configuration is one access point downstairs on channel 11 with essid=down and another access point upstairs on channel 6 with essid=up.
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>My problem scenario is: 
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>I use my laptop downstairs and connect to the downstairs access point.
>Then I power my laptop off and move upstairs and connect to the upstairs access point, I cannot get any network traffic.  I am sure that I am connected to the upstairs access point as I can check my wireless essid, and I can look in the log on the upstairs access point and I see my mac address connected.  I cannot get any response to my DHCP request for an address.  Even if I hard code a valid IP address I can't get any traffic.
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>It seems that the problem is that the downstairs access point still is collecting packets for my mac address even though I am no longer attached there.
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>Is there some trick to getting multiple access points on the same network to work properly.  I'm running dlink dwl-900AP+'s for both of them.
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>I tried configuring the upstairs AP as a repeater, but I couldn't find a location where it could see all the upstairs and have a good signal to the downstairs AP.
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>Thanks for any help
>
>Steve Kuekes
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>


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