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A customer wants to, in effect, daisy chain two wireless routers and have two different wireless sources in the house due to poor reception with just the one in the basement.
I know how to make it work technically (use one router in GATEWAY mode and connect to 2nd router via ethernet to ethernet p0orts and put the 2nd router in Access Point/Router mode, disable DHCP, have static IP address).
Here's the question. I see some sites that say to keep the same SSID (for roaming), while others say to make them different so you can be sure you're connecting to the stronger signal. If they were named the same, you could be connected to the weaker router and you wouldn't know it because the names are the same. What say you??
SSID: same on both routers
SSID broadcast: enabled on both
Encryption method: same on both
Encryption key: same on both
Channel: different on each router
VS
SSID: different name on each router
SSID broadcast: enabled on both
Encryption method: same on both
Encryption key: same on both
Channel: different on each router
I know how to make it work technically (use one router in GATEWAY mode and connect to 2nd router via ethernet to ethernet p0orts and put the 2nd router in Access Point/Router mode, disable DHCP, have static IP address).
Here's the question. I see some sites that say to keep the same SSID (for roaming), while others say to make them different so you can be sure you're connecting to the stronger signal. If they were named the same, you could be connected to the weaker router and you wouldn't know it because the names are the same. What say you??
SSID: same on both routers
SSID broadcast: enabled on both
Encryption method: same on both
Encryption key: same on both
Channel: different on each router
VS
SSID: different name on each router
SSID broadcast: enabled on both
Encryption method: same on both
Encryption key: same on both
Channel: different on each router