<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 24 Mar 2018, 15:54 stuart taylor via GLLUG, <<a href="mailto:gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12.0px"><div>Hi,</div>
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<div>I'd like some advice, please. I voluteer at a charity and have got them all using Linux on their computers. Now they want me to install a WiFi system for them. They have recently refurbished part of the building and wish to turn it into a meeting room for 20-25 people. The current broadband WiFi doesn't reach up to the meeting room, so will need some additions.</div>
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<div>My local pub uses something called Open Mesh, has anyone used these, and are they any good?</div>
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<div>Stuart</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hi,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is a shame that during the refurb, they did not think to add ethernet sockets in each room.<br></div><div>It would have been very easy to add wifi then.<br><br></div><div>While wifi is good, sometimes, having a physical ethernet cable in a meeting room is a great thing to have, when everything else fails.<br><br></div><div>Now the wifi.<br></div><div>The question is:<br></div><div>1) Will users be happy having to switch to a different access point when they move rooms, or<br>2) would they prefer the wifi network to take care of that for them.<br><br></div><div>(2) is often preferable, but tends to be more expensive.<br></div><div>I actually don't know why (2) is more expensive, if support for it was added to every wifi router, then it would be cheap.<br><br></div><div>With (2) the wifi network has a single central controller, and then distributed antennas.<br></div><div>This permits the system to determine where every client PC/Phone is, and ensure that the most efficient method is used to communicate with it. I.e. Automatically use the closest antenna.<br><br></div><div>Kind Regards<br><br></div><div>James<br><br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"></div></div></div>