Question Wifi Roaming

[testhathway0]

Hi Guys,

I want to setup a wifi roaming feature in my house.
My house consists of 4 floor and parking area.
and each floor and parking area will have 3 routers/AP's.

In total there are around 12~15 routers to cover entire area in my house.

Here is my requirement and i need your help to achieve the same
1. How to enable wifi roaming with all routers to that any device remain connected everywhere without connected to each wifi/ap, that means only i need to connect with one/master router.
2. I want to enable mac filtering that means i will enter mac ids for devices in one/master router and all other router will follow the same.

thanks in advance

 

[lantis3]

You need a wifi mesh system from the same company, not several routers with different brands/models

 

[USAFRet]

Hi Guys,

I want to setup a wifi roaming feature in my house.
My house consists of 4 floor and parking area.
and each floor and parking area will have 3 routers/AP's.

In total there are around 12~15 routers to cover entire area in my house.

Here is my requirement and i need your help to achieve the same
1. How to enable wifi roaming with all routers to that any device remain connected everywhere without connected to each wifi/ap, that means only i need to connect with one/master router.
2. I want to enable mac filtering that means i will enter mac ids for devices in one/master router and all other router will follow the same.

thanks in advance

Thats not the way WiFi and routers work.

 

[bill001g]

When you are running something that big you need to do it the correct way. You can not really limit connectivity via mac address. First this is easily changed/spoofed. Next there is not easy way to distribute lists to multiple devices. Nobody bothered to write the software because limiting by mac address is ineffective.

The solution is to use enterprise mode on the AP rather than using a share secret password. Every use will have its own userid and password controlled by a small central radius server. Takes only a very small computer even a raspberry pi to act as the radius server.

In general the standard share password and just being careful who you tell tends to be good enough for any home install and there is no need to try to limit it at the device level.

Roaming is garbage on wifi. Unlike a cell network it was never designed to be a mobile network. On wifi the end devices decide where to connect to and when to change and they are not too smart sometimes. Cell devices the network itself is in full control of the radio chips in the end devices. Luckly roaming mostly works on wifi you might at time have to stop and start the wifi client to force it to connect to the nearest wifi source rather than stay connected to the remote source. This is a indication of poor wifi AP layout you have too much wifi signal.