G+_Mike Marien (x12Mike) Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 So I just finished watching Ep 76 today about the WiFi settings. What Padre never mentioned, is when adding additional AP's, should the SSID's be the same or not? Also, he mentioned using additional routers (with DHCP off) instead of actual AP's, which I thought may confuse some folks. With a router, you can wire it to your existing LAN with the WAN port or a LAN port on the router, and results can vary depending on which port the router wants to use for the uplink to the rest of the network. But getting back to my original question, in my experience, unless you have more enterprise AP's that can create the "wireless mesh" network, it makes more sense to have separate SSID's for each AP as most devices don't jump from one AP to another very easily. Curious what the general consensus on this is... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Scott Colby Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I have several wireless routers in my house of different types and I find it up I use same SSID my phones and devices switch more easily from one to the other ensuring the best signal as I roam around the house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Gonzalez Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 noob questions, but do the additional AP use the same internet signal from the AP connected to the modem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Krupsky Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 There's a pretty good discussion of the multiple access point topic in this forum page that I just found: http://superuser.com/questions/122441/how-can-i-get-the-same-ssid-for-multiple-access-points Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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