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I cannot believe I said I used Cisco cards, I made a mistake the cards are 3COM.
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I cannot believe I said I used Cisco cards, I made a mistake the cards are 3COM.

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I have 3 wireless access points all setup with the same ssid to allow for roaming (802.11g). The channel is set to auto on the access points. I am having some problems where the clients (all using Cisco wireless cards) are temporarily disconnecting and reconnecting to different wireless access points depending on signal strength and what the card thinks is the best connection at the time. Problem is these clients are running Oracle clients, and the Oracle clients are erroring out every time the workstations switch to a different access point. One thing I was going to try was to force all of the access points to use the same channel, but I am not sure if this is the best approach when using the same ssid's for multiple access points (roaming) or must they all use different channels?<br />
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I have 3 wireless access points all setup with the same ssid to allow for roaming (802.11g). The channel is set to auto on the access points. I am having some problems where the clients (all using Cisco wireless cards) are temporarily disconnecting and reconnecting to different wireless access points depending on signal strength and what the card thinks is the best connection at the time. Problem is these clients are running Oracle clients, and the Oracle clients are erroring out every time the workstations switch to a different access point. One thing I was going to try was to force all of the access points to use the same channel, but I am not sure if this is the best approach when using the same ssid's for multiple access points (roaming) or must they all use different channels?

Thanks

Wireless AP, Roaming, Channels

Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and enterprise (business) installations avoid the costly process of introducing cables into a building, or as a connection between various equipment locations. Wireless telecommunications networks are generally implemented and administered using radio communication. This implementation takes place at the physical level (layer) of the OSI model network structure. The key hardware components of a wireless computer network include adapters, routers and access points, antennas and repeaters.