Group wireless access points to appear as one?

[ThEGr33k]

Hi, at work we are looking to try and make a large wireless network that covers the whole college site. We need it so that as wireless devices move around college they automatically switch to the access point with best reception... Is there a way to do this?

Cheers!

[startrek.steve]

They will anyway unless theyre both the same strength, so doesnt really matter.
Steve

[ThEGr33k]

Found this here;



My WLAN has multiple access points. Is there a way I can get my wireless notebook to automatically connect to the AP with the strongest signal?

Multiple AP WLANs usually assign the same SSID to all APs, so if you're using WinXP's built-in wireless utility, you will see only one "network".The client utilities that come with wireless adapters might allow you to see multiple APs with the same SSID, but since you select a network by SSID and not MAC address of the AP, you won't be able to select a specific AP.The only reliable way to allow selection of specific APs is to assign each one a unique SSID. Note that this might force you to have to manually re-connect when you move out of an AP's range.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20446-43-wireless-networking-general



That should be helpful... :)

[-Ralph-]

It's a configurable feature on most decent AP's costing a few hundred quid or more, not the small SOHO stuff.

[flymo]

It's a configurable feature on most decent AP's costing a few hundred quid or more, not the small SOHO stuff.

Yep, we have a single SSID for our corporate wifi across all sites globally. Cisco wifi access points come with built in features for this.