WAP321 two WAPs same SSID on same room with single point setup / cluster

[raphaelrosenthal]

Hi!

We just acquired several WAP321.

We have a room that has about 40 notebooks, so I will deploy two WAPs in there (according to the recommended 20 clients per WAP on the specs).

I configured the first WAP, created a cluster and SSID, then joined the second WAP to the same cluster with single point setup, it received the same radio settings from the cluster (SSID, WPA2 key, etc)

My requirements are:

1: Configure all notebooks with the same single SSID created on the WAP (which was propagated to the second WAP via single point setup/cluster)

2: Have the notebook connect automatically to one of the WAPs.

3: If one WAP fails, the notebook can automatically connect to the other.

Is this possible?

If so, are the steps taken are correct, or is there something else? (and how the notebook knows which WAP to connect if both WAPs are configured with same SSID?)

Thanks very much!

[cchamorr · Accepted solution]

Hello, 

Thank you for posting your question on the forums.

The setup you had configured will work just fine for your purposes, I will recommend for you to make sure that you have both AP's running on different, statically assigned channels, you can put one on channel 1 and the other on channel 6 or 11. This will prevent them from conflicting with each other.

Now, there is no real way to select what AP you will be connecting to or to even know which one you already connected to without special software, basically, when a device gets on the network and starts looking to connect to the wireless it will connect to the first AP that responds to the request, if this one becomes unavailable then it will send the request again and it will connect to the one that is working.

I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions

[raphaelrosenthal]

Thanks!

It worked just fine!