Setting up APs to roam

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Hello I have an issue regarding setting up an Access point in my house.

I have a router that is working perfectly fine with an SSID "Router" on channel 6 the IP address of this router is "193.160.1.1." With a DHCP pool from 193.160.1.2 - 193.160.1.100'
I have run an ethernet cable through my house to an AP with an IP address "193.160.1.254" with an SSID "Router" on channel 10.

I am able to connect to either perfectly fine. But unable to roam from one to the other. My devices will stay connected to the one i originally connect to unless i got to settings and click on the name again, it will then pick the stronger signal.

How am I able to make my devices roam always picking the stronger signal? As the WIFI ranges do overlap.
 
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Your device (phone/laptop) decides which AP to connect to, so unless you have some program/app that allows you to choose, it won't allow it.

What I've done is place my AP quite far away so they only have minimal overlap, this sort of ensures my devices lose the one and auto-connect to the other and vice versa.
 
Was the 193.160.1.0/24 a typo?

Make sure it's a private non-routable IP address first, ie 192.168.0.0/24 and not a public routable one (Not that that is the cause of this issue)

The equipment (Phones, pc's etc) should automatically connect to the signal with the best strength by default, if not then the security settings is not setup 100% the same on the SSID's, so make sure both are on lets say WPA2-Enterprise with TKIP and the same password. One might be on WPA-Enterprise or WPA-personal etc, they must be identical in every way except channels must be different.
 
Hello thank you for your feedback but after a bit I'm not entirely sure what the issue was as both the router and the AP were on WPA-PSK i set them both to WPA2-PSK and now it works perfectly fine
 
I do not want to buy another product and it will not work, what do you think the issue may be once identified I will purchase the correct product. The router I am using is a Tenda router would it be a good option to buy a Tenda access point?
 
are these wireless access points of the same brand and do they support seamless wireless roaming?

To do this manually, the one AP signal should not reach the other AP. lower the output so when you stand next to the one, you cannot see the other. then the device will automatically connect to the stronger signal, but will disconnect from the weak one first, you will notice this.

too high a signal output can also cause wifi connectivity issues.


otherwise as someone else mentioned, get seamless wireless transfer supported devices, like ubiquity.


almost forgot, change the one SSID to "router_ext" and have both wifi login details on the devices. sometimes this helps for some connected devices..
 
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You would need to replace the AP's with new ones that are roaming aware so that the "server" side does the roaming switch instead of the clients.

Using normal AP's in the fashion that you have the two AP's aren't aware of each other and only the client can decide when to switch...which is normally when it disconnects from the one entirely.

Ubiquity Unifi's are my preference.
 
hello123456 said:
I do not want to buy another product and it will not work, what do you think the issue may be once identified I will purchase the correct product. The router I am using is a Tenda router would it be a good option to buy a Tenda access point?
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Your products simply don't support the functionality you require. There is no way to make them work in the manner you want them to.

Your Router doesn't support it and therefor it doesn't matter what Access Point you add to it the problem will remain.

Both devices need to support it and therefore you'd need to replace both.
 
if you want to keep your current h/w, your only option would be to use an open SSID

hopefully you live on a farm ;)
 
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Then you will have to buy AP's that's designed to support it. Cheapest option would probably be two Ubiquiti AP's
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I vouch for Ubiquiti AP's as well, they just work great. Even initial setup of the AP's and connecting them together is easy peasy.
 
Are you sure all security settings are the same? Even the passwords have to match
 
Yes all security settings are the same, I will first try to move the ap even further away to see the effect and would like to know can ubiquities APs overlap?
 
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