01-09-2012 07:57 AM
I have 3 AP541Ns setup in a small environment. The wireless clients use laptops to attach, via RDP, to a Microsoft Terminal Server. They need the ability to walk, with laptop, from room to room, IE roaming wireless clients. The issue is the clients drop and re-attach constantly and takes up to 5 minutes to re-attach� to the WLAN / RDP session. Is this a symptom of going from WAP to WAP and is their anything I can do about it?
Thanks,
01-09-2012 01:22 PM
Chris,
The AP541N doesn't support true wireless roaming; for wireless roaming you would need to move up to enterprise devices. Now there is an option that should speed up the re-authentication time.
Enable
Preauthentication
If in WPA Versions you selected only WPA2 or both WPA and
WPA2, you can enable pre-authentication for WPA2 clients.
Click Enable pre-authentication if you want WPA2 wireless
clients to send a pre-authentication packet. The preauthentication
information is relayed from the access point
the client is using to the target access point. Enabling this
feature can speed up authentication for roaming clients that
connect to multiple access points.
This option does not apply if you selected only WPA for WPA
Versions because WPA does not support this feature
In administration guide page 76
Hope this helps,
Jasbryan
01-16-2012 05:47 AM
Even with the customer accepting the fact that they can not do "roaming wireless clients" the performance of these devices is poor at best. I have used the the enterprise products without issue. I should have looked through these boards before using the AP541Ns, they just aren't stable. My next step is support, which looks like is the common theme with these WAPs.. To bad.
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