Re: WiFi troubleshooting

On Sat, May 21, 2011 9:10 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> i suspect your client is getting entirely confused when it jumps between
> access points. it will retain its original IP address and therefore become
> stranded.

> i assume you are plugging their wan ports in to your local network?
> instead plug in one of the lan ports and disable the wan ports as much as
> possible, and disable dhcp (or set it to static) on all but one device. ip
> routers will still bridge between the wireless and lan ports so you should
> be good to go.

Dean,
thanks,

you might be right that's the issue, I've installed some WiFi apps from
market, and, I can see two WiFi points are simultaneously visible to
Android

I've removed DHCP and re-plugged LAN to LAN, and, I'll see how it goes

> normally i would recommend loading an open source firmware on to them, but
> none of them are listed on dd-wrt.org

is WRT54G 'the way to go' with dd-wrt, any particular revision
better/worse ? (apart from 7) I'll try to source that

-- 
Voytek

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