wireless clients roaming between APs 1

[volleyman]

what behavior do 80211.g clients exhibit when a repeater AP is present? does its signal strength to the root have to completely disappear before it will start using the repeater?

I have set up two Cisco Aironet 1100 APs, one as root, one as repeater. The client will not give up its connection to the root, even though the signal strength displays as being minimal.

fyi, I've used intermec hand-helds and a dell laptop with a cisco aironet card as clients. All act the same.

thanks,

Zane

 

[bcastner]

Different channels, same SSID.

You might have to adjust the AP density values.

And for the clients this will help:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826942.htm#blank_windows

Service Pack 2 offers very strong features for XP clients in this setting. You might want to test:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx

The planned changes under an XP Client make the AP selection less ambiguous.

 

[volleyman]

thanks for the response. I was unable to find out how to adjust the APs density values. Any idea how to do that on a Cisco Aironet 1100? Cisco.com wasn't helpful.


thanks,

Zane