<div dir="ltr">That's just an ESSID (an SSID shared by several WAPs that participate in the same wireless LAN).<div>Each WAP has their own BSA (basic service area, or wireless range) that should overlap slightly with other WAPs to allow for seamless roaming/handoff.<div></div></div><div>But nearly every corporate WAP made in the last decade does auto channel switching to ensure that interference doesn't happen on the 2.4 and 5GHz ranges, so you don't need to manually configure it at all. But if your WAP doesn't support an ESSID, I imagine that having separate channels is sage advice if you want to use the same SSID on 2 different devices (probably no seamless roaming though).</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:08 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>For a few years, I have been running two WiFi routers, each with its own SSID. </div><div>One router is the actual gateway to the internet, connected to the cable modem. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The other one has DHCP disabled, so that the main router serves IP addresses to the devices by MAC address. <br></div><div><br></div><div>It seems that I can unify both routers under one SSID, just like hotels, conference centres, and other places that do that. <br></div><div><br></div><div>However, this article (from 2010) says to put each router on a different channel. <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.hanselman.com/blog/configuring-two-wireless-routers-with-one-ssid-network-name-at-home-for-free-roaming" target="_blank">https://www.hanselman.com/blog/configuring-two-wireless-routers-with-one-ssid-network-name-at-home-for-free-roaming</a></div><div><br></div><div>Those were the Wireless-N days. Now with Wireless AC, does that rule apply?</div><div><br></div><div>Can I just use 'auto' in OpenWRT and let the router worry about the channels?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Khalid M. Baheyeldin</div></div></div>
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