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re: basic PoE AP
Posted on 11/22/20 at 10:03 am to humblepie
Posted on 11/22/20 at 10:03 am to humblepie
It never works as you expect. Your device will stay connected to the original AP until there is almost zero signal.
I help clients all the time at their house that do this exact mistake with multiple APs pushing out the same SSID and password.
Either use different SSIDs and manually switch to the better AP or use mesh/Unifi type setup where the APs talk to each other and do the handoffs.
I help clients all the time at their house that do this exact mistake with multiple APs pushing out the same SSID and password.
Either use different SSIDs and manually switch to the better AP or use mesh/Unifi type setup where the APs talk to each other and do the handoffs.
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Posted on 11/22/20 at 1:45 pm to ColdDuck
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Either use different SSIDs and manually switch to the better AP or use mesh/Unifi type setup where the APs talk to each other and do the handoffs.
Does that require the extender and base access point to be the same manufacturer?
Posted on 1/7/21 at 4:16 pm to ColdDuck
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It never works as you expect. Your device will stay connected to the original AP until there is almost zero signal.
I'm only familiar with UniFi APs which I have 4x AC-IW and one AC-LR covering my house. I have configured them so they will kick a device whose signal (RSSI) is worse than -68 dBm. This forces the device to reconnect to an AP again. So my devices can't hang on to an AP if the signal gets bad.
It's possible the device could try and connect to the same AP but then it would just be kicked if the signal was the same. I haven't seen a problem with this as I have my power levels set to low for 2.4 and medium for 5 GHz. Far away APs won't have a good signal and encourages devices to the closest APs.
I used to get annoyed when devices wouldn't connect to the closest AP, but now I don't care as long as the signal is good.
Another setting to configure is data rate controls. In my setup, I've got it so 6 Mbps is the minimum data rate allowed for 2.4 GHz and 12 Mbps minimum for 5 GHz. If a device can't support those speeds, then it has to find another AP.
This post was edited on 1/7/21 at 4:18 pm
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