[geeks] Airport Express arrived yesterday!

[sammy ominsky]

On Jul 18, 2004, at 22:36, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> I'm wondering about the idea of having two parallel wireless networks
> (different SSID/channel assignments) - the idea being the computers 
> will pick
> the best network and use it... Like this:
>
> Network SSID "ABC" on channel 1
> Network SSID "XYZ" on channel 11
>
> Anyone have any exp. with such a setup?

Unfortunately, my experience is that you'll have trouble. You'll need 
to decide which to join on  a regular basis, and roaming between the 
two will be a nightmare of dropped connections. You're much better off 
keeping them on the same network, a minimum of three channels apart.


---sambo