Here's the situation:
I'll have limited usage of these (at the most ~20 devices.)
I didn't think the situation all the way through when I bought them. Here is what I have.
4 WRT54GL Routers, all within range of each other (in a square basically). Mounted on the wall.
Each has it's own cable pull from our main switches, that is connected to their WAN side port.
I'd like them all to reside on the same ESSID, and allow the laptops to roam and just connect to the best signal (which will depend on the room they are in.)
I configured them all with DHCP on, but with different IP ranges. For some reason I had it in my head that it would work.. It doesn't, it seems they will hop from router to router and think they didn't lose connection (same ESSID, WPA2 pass etc), but the IP range will be off and they do not connect to anything.
I did buy the L version in case I need to install DDWRT or something similar to open up what they can do.
Am I correct in thinking that I need to scrap using the pulled wires on all but one, and set the others up to work as wireless extenders (ddwrt)?
I'll have limited usage of these (at the most ~20 devices.)
I didn't think the situation all the way through when I bought them. Here is what I have.
4 WRT54GL Routers, all within range of each other (in a square basically). Mounted on the wall.
Each has it's own cable pull from our main switches, that is connected to their WAN side port.
I'd like them all to reside on the same ESSID, and allow the laptops to roam and just connect to the best signal (which will depend on the room they are in.)
I configured them all with DHCP on, but with different IP ranges. For some reason I had it in my head that it would work.. It doesn't, it seems they will hop from router to router and think they didn't lose connection (same ESSID, WPA2 pass etc), but the IP range will be off and they do not connect to anything.
I did buy the L version in case I need to install DDWRT or something similar to open up what they can do.
Am I correct in thinking that I need to scrap using the pulled wires on all but one, and set the others up to work as wireless extenders (ddwrt)?