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Distributed Wireless Networking - Mesh Setup advice

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naimcohen

Senior member
Hi,

I'm looking to install a wireless system in a large house.

The current system is 7 or 8 Linksys access points set up around the house, but each one is setup individually. Meaning when you search for a network all of the available ones come up and make roaming around the house a pain as you will lose connection and have to reconnect to the best signal depending where you are.

There house is also wired with cat5 in almost every room, which is where the access points are.

I believe I have two options here.

1. (however not sure if it can be done) set up the current access points in a mesh network so only 1 wifi network is shown but works all over the house.

2. set up a new system using these: Ubiquiti UniFi http://www.wifigear.co.uk/ubiquiti-unifi-uap-lr-80211n-mimo-access-point-long-range

They have the capability 'Option to create one large wireless network across multiple APs that lets users seamlessly roam.'

Am I missing something here? is there a simpler solution available or better products than the Ubiquiti UniFi.
 
Just set the SSID and the preshared key the same on all of your APs. Clients will connect to whichever one has the strongest signal. You don't need to do anything fancy.
 
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