[Cialug] Wireless APs supporting roaming?

[Tom Pohl]

The other portion of wireless roaming is that the client card really needs to support it too (unless things have changed over the years).  

Back in the day, proxim access points with proxim client cards would do a little dance and hand off between each other nicely.

Realistically, computers naturally disconnect and reconnect to access points with the strongest signal and I don't find huge value in that feature unless you're trying to do client load balancing or real-time audio/video streaming while moving around between access points.

I've been buying Engenius ECB9500 and they have been working great (POE capable for under $90)

-Tom


On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:
>> Any recommendations for wireless APs that support roaming?  I need to
>> place 2-3 units in a local church that has a few cement walls.
>> 
>> Also open to hostap solutions with mini-itx boards + FreeRADIUS + Linux
>> if you have some stories to share.
> 
> How seamless do you want the roaming to be?  How much money do you
> want to spend?  Unless there were a real need for seamless roaming and
> you had bunches of money to spend I'd just go with some inexpensive
> access points but turn off any DHCP servers that run on them and run a
> DHCP server on a Linux box located in the office.  You could probably
> get by with using the DHCP server that runs on your Internet router.
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Ollie
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