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This is exactly how (big) wifi systems work. (mesh) If this is not the case in a big commercial building, it was done by choice or because of incompetence.
by Freestyler_3 5y ago
This is exactly how (big) wifi systems work. (mesh)
If this is not the case in a big commercial building, it was done by choice or because of incompetence.
- ganafagol 5y agoNo it's not. A campus network has a PoE line to each access point. It's not a mesh, they don't route the traffic between the access points over the air.
- spockz 5y agoIsn’t that mesh with back haul? I thought the characteristics of a mesh were that the APs were communicating with themselves to provide handoff. Data can move over the AP or through back haul.
- emteycz 5y agoI think that's roaming. Mesh wifi should IMHO be routing the traffic through the nodes (with possible backhaul).
- windowsworkstoo 5y agoCorrect, enterprise wifi is usually just APs with a common SSID and security configuration and some tuning to try to force clients to roam sensibly. There’s no AP to AP comms, it all goes back to the switchport
- garaetjjte 5y agoThere are solutions for AP-side roaming that is transparent to the client and whole network is visible as single AP, like UniFi "Zero-Handoff Roaming". Though because it forces whole network to use single channel it is deprecated in favor of 802.11r client side fast roaming. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004662107-UniFi-Fast-Roaming https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004662107-UniFi-Fas...