Extenders are driving me nuts.
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Extenders are driving me nuts.
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I am using an EAP245 as my main AP and I have 4 SSID on the 2.4 as well as 4 SSID on the 5GHz side. Two rooms away, I have a RE580D that connects to my VPN on 2.4 and VPN5G SSID on the EAP245. The extended SSID are VPN_EXT and VPN5G_EXT and that works, although there is some spotty connections from time to time. At the work area, I placed another extender, this time a RE590T. I pointed the RE590 to the RE580 (VPN_EXT and VPN5G_EXT), but I changed the extended SSID back to VPN and VPN5G. My thought that using the RE580 at the man in the middle, I could have a fake roaming setup, so that devices (laptops, tablets, phones, etc) would be able to bounce back and forth with not need to change SSID. I even hid the extended SSID on the RE580, so no one would become confused with all of the SSID floating around.Obviously, my layout was not optional. I have turned off the RE590T because every time I attempted to connect to it, I lose all connectivity to the internet. So with the two extenders, what should be the ideal setup to that I can have a roaming environments?
Hardware Version :
Firmware Version :
ISP :
I am using an EAP245 as my main AP and I have 4 SSID on the 2.4 as well as 4 SSID on the 5GHz side. Two rooms away, I have a RE580D that connects to my VPN on 2.4 and VPN5G SSID on the EAP245. The extended SSID are VPN_EXT and VPN5G_EXT and that works, although there is some spotty connections from time to time. At the work area, I placed another extender, this time a RE590T. I pointed the RE590 to the RE580 (VPN_EXT and VPN5G_EXT), but I changed the extended SSID back to VPN and VPN5G. My thought that using the RE580 at the man in the middle, I could have a fake roaming setup, so that devices (laptops, tablets, phones, etc) would be able to bounce back and forth with not need to change SSID. I even hid the extended SSID on the RE580, so no one would become confused with all of the SSID floating around.Obviously, my layout was not optional. I have turned off the RE590T because every time I attempted to connect to it, I lose all connectivity to the internet. So with the two extenders, what should be the ideal setup to that I can have a roaming environments?
