Basic orinoco 2.4ghz radios having problems connecting many times. I am wondering could this because it’s a 3 sector AP using the same SSID? Should I be using seperate SSID’s with a Virtual AP with a common name for wireless roaming? How should I set this up so that wireless can roam around but works efficiently with a tri-sector AP.
Also when I tried to create a virtualAP no SSID is being broadcast with it’s other AP. Using Atheros CM9 5213 radios.
using WDS will allow this and will support roaming clients.. Be aware that you are creating a large bridged network and will cause a large amount of broadcast traffic if you have many users connected at the same time. It’s good for hotspots but not a large wireless WAN.
Also how do the sectors connect to the radio(s)? are you using 1 radio with a splitter? or a radio for each sector?
a radio for each sector all with same SSID but different channels..
wlan2: channel 1
wlan3: channel 6
wlan4: channel 11
Check the mikrotik manual it has examples for creating and configuring a WDS bridge.
But I wouldn’t want to create a WDS bridge when connecting roaming laptop pcmcia cards to our various AP’s would I? I didn’t think PCMCIA orinoco type cards could do WDS.
WDS has nothing to do with the client card.. it just bridges between your wireless AP devices creating one large wireless cloud.
the reason you’re getting multiple disconnects is because you’re broadcasting the same SSID on multiple channels and the clients is switching to whichever broadcast device gives it the best signal, breaking your “physical” connection with the AP.
yeah I understand that. What I want to know is their some setting or change that can be made to make it more roaming capable without jumping off to the next one so quickly. When your on a cell phone you don’t just start hopping around but yet they have sectors with a single SSID themselves.. or course I think they call it something else but pretty much the same principal.