Comment on WiFi Roaming Between Different Routers
taaz@biglemmowski.win 10 hours agoYeah didn’t add that bit before, edited in. Archer is here as just dumb AP/routing box for the furthest room, connected to Omnia by ethernet (so yes, Archer acts as client device @ .1.20 and forwards everything to Omnia).
just_another_person@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Both running OpenWRT, or the Archer still runs stock firmware?
taaz@biglemmowski.win 10 hours ago
Tp-link is stock sadly, but could replace with more capable one (in this case Mikrotik L009 probably, I don’t care about single-band in this case because it literally covers a single, open space room)
just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well what you’re probably looking to setup is 802.11r, but I think you’re still going to run into issues because of the proximity of where your routers are.
The issue you’re seeing is related to band shaping and signal-to-noise ratio. Your wifi client is actutthe thing that is supposed to be more smoothly handling the transition between access points with your current setup, but it may not work as expected without the signal for one or the other to be drastically worse than the other. 802.11r helps with that. Results are hit or miss though, so don’t go buying new equipment just to try it out.
If you had two OpenWRT devices though, I would just make a mesh and skip the above.
taaz@biglemmowski.win 6 hours ago
Thanks, especially for that openwrt mesh bit that might end up as the the best solution.