Multiple Wireless Access Point Setup?

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Greetings,

I know the MS hardware is somewhat new to the wireless
LAN game, but I am in need of a concrete answer, so I
thought I would try the brain trust here. :-)

Situation is:

-multiple access points, hard wired to the same physical
LAN, around a large office.
-access points are ONLY doing access point
-laptop and tablet users need to be able to seamlessly
float through office
-SSID is the same everywhere

The question is around the channel to use.
-Cisco says use the same channel on all devices
-SMC says use a different channel for each AP
-LinkSys says either way... but an article on their site,
says use different channels
-DLink says use the same channel.

Anyone know for sure? Or have a "case by case" reasoning
I can use? :-)

Thanks,
Andrew

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roaming is what you are doing. use channels 1 6 and 11 which are non
overlapping. if you have more than 3, then you would have some issues

Andrew wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I know the MS hardware is somewhat new to the wireless
> LAN game, but I am in need of a concrete answer, so I
> thought I would try the brain trust here. :-)
>
> Situation is:
>
> -multiple access points, hard wired to the same physical
> LAN, around a large office.
> -access points are ONLY doing access point
> -laptop and tablet users need to be able to seamlessly
> float through office
> -SSID is the same everywhere
>
> The question is around the channel to use.
> -Cisco says use the same channel on all devices
> -SMC says use a different channel for each AP
> -LinkSys says either way... but an article on their site,
> says use different channels
> -DLink says use the same channel.
>
> Anyone know for sure? Or have a "case by case" reasoning
> I can use? :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew


--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)

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repeater, versus roaming

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> Agreed.
> Any reason you can see, why someone like Cisco though,
> would suggest putting them all on the same channel, at
> the same time? Netgear as well, and DLink...?
>
> Andrew
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> roaming is what you are doing. use channels 1 6 and 11
> which are non
>> overlapping. if you have more than 3, then you would have some issues
>>
>> Andrew wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I know the MS hardware is somewhat new to the wireless
>>> LAN game, but I am in need of a concrete answer, so I
>>> thought I would try the brain trust here. :-)
>>>
>>> Situation is:
>>>
>>> -multiple access points, hard wired to the same
> physical
>>> LAN, around a large office.
>>> -access points are ONLY doing access point
>>> -laptop and tablet users need to be able to seamlessly
>>> float through office
>>> -SSID is the same everywhere
>>>
>>> The question is around the channel to use.
>>> -Cisco says use the same channel on all devices
>>> -SMC says use a different channel for each AP
>>> -LinkSys says either way... but an article on their
> site,
>>> says use different channels
>>> -DLink says use the same channel.
>>>
>>> Anyone know for sure? Or have a "case by case"
> reasoning
>>> I can use? :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> --
>> Barb Bowman
>> Expert Zone Columnist
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> MS-MVP (Windows)
>>
>>
>> .


--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)

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I can only repeat what I've already told you.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:57:41 -0700, "Andrew"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>No... that's not how they describe it.
>
>We're not talking about repeaters here, that I am clear
>on. A repeater would indeed HAVE to be on the same
>channel.
>
>They (Cisco, NetGear, DLink) all specifically say, for
>multiple access points to put them all on the same
>channel...
>
>Andrew
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>repeater, versus roaming
>>
>>anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
>>> Agreed.
>>> Any reason you can see, why someone like Cisco though,
>>> would suggest putting them all on the same channel, at
>>> the same time? Netgear as well, and DLink...?
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> roaming is what you are doing. use channels 1 6 and 11
>>> which are non
>>>> overlapping. if you have more than 3, then you would
>have some issues
>>>>
>>>> Andrew wrote:
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>
>>>>> I know the MS hardware is somewhat new to the
>wireless
>>>>> LAN game, but I am in need of a concrete answer, so I
>>>>> thought I would try the brain trust here. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Situation is:
>>>>>
>>>>> -multiple access points, hard wired to the same
>>> physical
>>>>> LAN, around a large office.
>>>>> -access points are ONLY doing access point
>>>>> -laptop and tablet users need to be able to
>seamlessly
>>>>> float through office
>>>>> -SSID is the same everywhere
>>>>>
>>>>> The question is around the channel to use.
>>>>> -Cisco says use the same channel on all devices
>>>>> -SMC says use a different channel for each AP
>>>>> -LinkSys says either way... but an article on their
>>> site,
>>>>> says use different channels
>>>>> -DLink says use the same channel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know for sure? Or have a "case by case"
>>> reasoning
>>>>> I can use? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Barb Bowman
>>>> Expert Zone Columnist
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>>>> MS-MVP (Windows)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> .
>>
>>
>>--
>> Barb Bowman
>> Expert Zone Columnist
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>> MS-MVP (Windows)
>>
>>
>>.
>>

--
Barb Bowman
Expert Zone Columnist
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
MS-MVP (Windows)