[ale] [Semi-OT] Multicell Wifi Network

[Michael Potter]

Here are the instructions that I wrote to do this with Apple equipment:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12940814#12940814

I use this in my home and have no problems.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone on the list knew of a consumer-oriented device
> that would enable one to create a multicell Wifi network using an
> existing Ethernet network as a backbone.  I don't seem to be having much
> luck finding anything.
>
> Someone I know wants to cover their (somewhat large) property with WiFi.
>  In the past, they had a repeater-type thing setup, but the way that the
> repeater worked was less than optimal; it had two wireless chipsets in
> it and it would join one to the existing Wifi network and the other one
> would be its own distinct access point.  The result was that any Wifi
> device would have to be taught (by the user) about both networks, and
> transfer between them was anything but seamless.
>
> I was also looking to see if that was something that DD-WRT knew how to
> do, but I am not turning anything up there, either.
>
> The desired feature is to have worry-free roaming throughout the
> (intended) four cells in the network, without having problems like loss
> of IP sessions.  A transitory delay would be acceptable, so long as it's
> not going through a whole network-down, re-associate, DHCP-handshake,
> there's-a-new-IP stack for your applications to use type cycle.  TCP
> connections should survive the process without having to rely on luck,
> in other words.
>
> I know that very large Wifi networks are setup to do this, and I'm
> guessing that they use special expensive hardware to do so.  Obviously,
> cost is a factor here, so ideally something that uses commodity hardware
> would be great.
>
>        --- Mike
>
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