adding a access point to wireless network

[kater1]

I have recently finished building my home office. All my networking items are in there. It is built onto one end of the house with cat5 cabling running to each room. I have Verizon DSL with their new model 7500 modem/wireless router.

The problem i have is this. Signal strength in the far end of the house is low to none. How can I set up a access point so that when walking around the house you don't loose signal? (laptop or whatever switches from AP to Wireless Router automatically). As I said, I have cat5 cabling run through the house.

Thanks

Bill

 

[Lean L]

Wow this forum gets no traffic... You can set the SSID and security to the same for both routers (different channels) but I don't think you can achieve a seamless handoff unless you have industrial APs.

 

[kalster]

you can configure the 2 routers (or router and AP) in WDS mode , the handoff should be seamless.

 

[kater1]

How do you set the westell 7500 router from Verizon into WDS mode?

And would they both run on the same channel and use the same SSID?

 

[JackMDS]

WDS is a None standard feature and when used the two communicating Routers need to support it.

I doubt that the Verizon Gizmo does.

Achieving seamless roaming with entry level wireless is big maybe.

Usually same SSID and different channels yields the same result, it takes less than a minute to try same channel, or different channels.

I do not roam in a middle of download, otherwise let problem with seamless Wireless be the only thing in life that bother you and you are a lucky man.

 

[kater1]

so, if i go down to walamrt and buy a LINKSYS WAP54G AP and put the same SSID and security on it but use channel 6 insteadof channel 1, the laptop should switch from router to AP without any intervention by the user depending on where in the house you are.

Am I correct in assuming this?

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Achieving seamless roaming with entry level wireless is big maybe.

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tut...ls/article.php/3599726

 

[Lean L]

Not doable with Verizon router. just live with the half minute transfer

OP's latest post: yes, no intervention, but it breaks the connection for a while. Might be cheaper to buy a router in this case and config it into AP mode. Cisco >>> Linksys