On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Michel Servaes <michel at mcmc dot be> wrote:

> Yves,
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> We install several homes with the setup you are asking for.
> Most of the time, we provide LANCOM products, who are capable of roaming,
> and have a PoE onboard... which saves time on installing (and when things go
> wrong, you just have to power-cycle the switch giving power over the
> ethernet cables).


Indeed :-)



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> We use the same SSID on all AP's, the channels are being chosen so that AP1
> & AP3 have the same channel, but AP2 another (given the fact that all three
> AP's are on one line ofcourse), if you have the same channel on AP1 & AP2,
> you could cause some interference... nothing spectacular for data, but it
> might give you some problems for VOIP...
> Since you have several floors, signals from AP1 might interfere with
> signals on AP11 (11 being on the second floor, and AP1 on the first floor)


Yes, that's exactly what I'm scared of.
Ap's are placed in technical shafts, so 5 above each other, one for each
floor. So they are pretty close to each other actually, about 3 to 4m .
So I guess I was right sticky with 1-6-11 as channels, though this way I
will still have 2 times 2 AP's (in the same shaft) on the same channel.
I will spread them as far from each other as possibel of course.


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> This is not in combination with any monowall or pfsense, but just plain on
> itself... I still am evaluating monowall/pfsense for customer deployment...


We use m0n0wall quite some time for customer deployment ;-)


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> Maybe others have additional ideas or more constructive details for your
> situation, but I feel that you are almost asking the same (with this
> difference, that I don't use mono/pf at the customer yet).
>
> Kind regards,
> /MSe



Ok, many thanks for your input.
Kind regards,
Y



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