From: Pratt, Jeremy (JPratt@coh.org)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 22:26:45 GMT-3
This was my fix to the roaming issue:
Go to Radio hardware, make the data rates the following: 1.0 no, 2.0 no, 5.5
basic, 11.0 basic. This fixed the problem and I got better hand off between
the A/P's/ I'll ask my friend tomorrow at TAC about more info on this.
-----Original Message-----
From: Some Internet User [mailto:shadowd2@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:36 AM
To: Some Internet User
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OT: Wireless Question
Forgot to mention this is 802.11b
-SM
Some Internet User wrote:
> I have a customer that is using MAC based authentication with the
> Cisco 1200 AP's. One of the problems were having is in several areas
> of their campus, a client computer will flop back and forth from one
> AP to another. Now, without any authentication turned on, this is not
> a big deal, because no traffic is lost. With the MAC based
> authentication (pointint to a RADIUS server) I'm losing a ping every
> time it roams (well, actually 7 of 11 times). This is a problem for
> these clients that are flopping from one AP to another one, causing
> them to lose traffic. Does anyone know if there's some sort of
> configuration that I'm missing that allows this information to be
> cached so I don't have the delay when roaming.
>
> Second Question: Does anyone have any good links on what exactly
> happens when you have overlapping channels? The questions I'm looking
> to have answered are: how much overlap can you have? what happens to
> the traffic when you have overlap? What metric do you use to determine
> whether overlap is going to be a problem.
>
> Thanks in advance everyone!
>
> -SM
> .
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