Two SSID's with the same network names ...

[Brian Lloyd]

On Nov 30, 2004, at 8:39 AM, Michael Duffy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have two WLAN's operating on individual private networks with the
> same SSID, unfortunately the driver will only select the hub with the
> strongest signal. I can see multiple network name entries for the
> SSID's in the "Network Name" dropdown box but when I select the second
> entry it just re-connects me back to the first hub (My basestation ID
> also reports the MAC address from the first basestation).

This is very strange.  Identical SSIDs implies that the two APs connect 
to the same network and are functionally interchangeable.  This does 
not sound like the case for you.  Why would you do this and not choose 
a different SSID?

> Is there any way to input the basestation MAC addr instead of the SSID
> into the setup or to maybe restrict the channel to control which hub I
> can connect to ?

Well, that is the purpose of the SSID.
>
> With the exception of this slight problem, the driver works 
> fantastically ...

Well, this does not sound like a driver problem but rather one of 
network architecture.

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