Why Don't Wi-Fi Repeaters Work Very Well - OK, Why Do They Suck?
Everywhere you look - you see the same feedback. "I've deployed a Wi-Fi repeater and it sucks".There is a simple explanation as to why a Wi-Fi repeater typically sucks. It is because it, and the AP for...
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Your neighbor's 2.4Ghz wifi router/ap will also cause interference, as well as all the 2.4Ghz hotspot smart devices.inSSIDer version 3 can help you find the emptiest channel to use, or better yet, stay...
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There is a LOT about wifi (or should I say technology in general) that people don't understand.
View ArticleWhy Don't Wi-Fi Repeaters Work Very Well - OK, Why Do They Suck?
I typically just try to stay off 2.4GHz if I have neighbors around. Not enough channels. Head over to 5GHz and break out a WiFi analyzer to check the channels. Do a little channel bonding and you've...
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Very nice info. Thank you.
View ArticleWhy Don't Wi-Fi Repeaters Work Very Well - OK, Why Do They Suck?
If you are running a WiFi extender (wireless), yes it will use the same connection as other clients to the parent AP. Since WiFi uses CSMA/CA for communication, often times you will find that the...
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Which networking novice would put two overlapping AP's on the same channel in the first place? Unless the network is running "zero handoff" which we now know thanks to a post from one of the other...
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The point is Mark - halving the bandwidth is not the only issue. By definition, using a single radio repeater is putting two overlapping APs on the same channel - whether you are a novice or not, that...
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Rob (Xclaim) wrote:The point is Mark - halving the bandwidth isnot the only issue. By definition, using a single radio repeater is putting two overlapping APs on the same channel - whether you are a...
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You cannot put the repeater on a different channel to the root AP.....they have to be on the same channel so they can communicate with each other. The repeater is essentially acting as a client to the...
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I need to lab that with a couple of my Cisco autonomous AP's. It makes sense that the repeater AP is a client of the root AP in the same way that PC's tablets and phones are clients of an AP and so...
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Clients and the AP they are connected to synchronize their transmit/receive....as I said in the original post....but when the repeater is acting as an AP to its own clients, that traffic is not...
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So the same send/receive process between AP and client in a regular wifi transmission is simply ignored when an AP is in repeater mode and talking to a root AP? And a repeater AP can transmit to both a...
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http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/access_point/12-2_11_JA/configuration/guide/b12211sc/s...That makes sense. There would be co-channel interference in the area of overlap between the two...
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An AP cannot transmit to a client and a repeater simultaneously (unless it is a broadcast packet, or unless it is an 802.11ac Wave2 AP...but lets forget both of those for now since that's not what we...
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Yes, and like I said, interference between the two AP's can only happen where their cells overlap. That part was missing from the initial "two AP's on overlapping channels" item which started me off.
View ArticleWhy Don't Wi-Fi Repeaters Work Very Well - OK, Why Do They Suck?
Everywhere you look - you see the same feedback. "I've deployed a Wi-Fi repeater and it sucks".There is a simple explanation as to why a Wi-Fi repeater typically sucks. It is because it, and the AP for...
View ArticleWhy Don't Wi-Fi Repeaters Work Very Well - OK, Why Do They Suck?
Your neighbor's 2.4Ghz wifi router/ap will also cause interference, as well as all the 2.4Ghz hotspot smart devices.inSSIDer version 3 can help you find the emptiest channel to use, or better yet, stay...
View ArticleWhy Don't Wi-Fi Repeaters Work Very Well - OK, Why Do They Suck?
There is a LOT about wifi (or should I say technology in general) that people don't understand.
View ArticleWhy Don't Wi-Fi Repeaters Work Very Well - OK, Why Do They Suck?
I typically just try to stay off 2.4GHz if I have neighbors around. Not enough channels. Head over to 5GHz and break out a WiFi analyzer to check the channels. Do a little channel bonding and you've...
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