SSD Posted January 6, 2012 Posted January 6, 2012 Need a little help deciding how to use a newly acquired Access Point. My Router (provided with Verizon FIOS service), has wireless, but it is located in an equipment room in my basement and does not provide good coverage to the MBR, where my wife and I frequently use wireless devices. So I bought an Access Point (TP-Link TL-WA801ND). It has a myriad of options for how to configure it, but I am not sure how best to set it up. I thought I could just plug it into the wired network (there is a network drop in my MBR), but I am not sure if that would create a separate SSID and cause problems moving around the house. The AP has other modes like repeater / global repeater that seem to repeat the wireless signal to the main wireless unit. But since my MBR gets lousy coverage, I think the AP may need to be in a different room, with good access to the wireless signal, to work well in this mode. But seems like throughput would be limited by the weakest link. And would a wireless signal be seen by both the router and AP and create interference? Anyone got a similar configuration and have any advice as to how to setup the AP? Thanks!
dgaschk Posted January 7, 2012 Posted January 7, 2012 See here: http://superuser.com/questions/122441/multiple-access-points-for-the-same-ssid
Whaler_99 Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 If you have a wired connection there, rather then "bridging" the network as a repeater, I would definately hook it up in the MBR as a second SSID. At least you would have a pretty strong signal. And name it different and as you move, you system(s) should automatically switch to a more stronger one when a signal gets too weak. In my two story house I have 3 SSID's running to provide adequate coverage everywhere.... Once setup, my systems just jump around to whichever is strongest transparently to me. Shawn
dgaschk Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 The SSID and password should be the same for all access points in order to effect seamless roving.
Whaler_99 Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I have always found the "seamless" roaming to be pretty clunky when using prosumer grade gear - that's why at my place I use three different SSID's. Once I have connected and saved the three, it is pretty seamless. I found Windows seems to really hate finding two different Access Points both advertising the same SSID. Those are just my findings though, maybe you have had better luck. Shawn
c3 Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 The SSID and password should be the same for all access points in order to effect seamless roving. Anything else will result in reconnection delays. There should only be one DHCP server on the network.
elkay14 Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 I have roaming w/ same SSID/password set up with two WRT54G's (Tomato) and it is seamless with both Mac and Win7 clients.
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