Hi Ed, thanks for your reply!<br><br>What I want is to set up a only instance of hostapd working with various NICs as a unique AP, in a same channel and SSID, and so the clients will see only an AP near they, but with more capacity or load balance. I don't want a client see various AP. My questios is if hostapd can be configured to do this. It's very important for me, I'm working about this for my final work of degree.<br>
<br>Thanks again, regards<br><br>Antonio.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/5 Ed W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@wildgooses.com">lists@wildgooses.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 05/04/2011 11:10, Antonio Iglesias wrote:<br>
> It's possible to configure hostapd to work with two or more similar NICs<br>
> using ifenslave like a same AP (channel, SSID...) to increase througput<br>
> and/or load balance?. The goal is to make possible to transmit video to<br>
> over 30 laptops in a wireless LAN.<br>
<br>
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</div>Just theoretically you can see that it will be hard to increase<br>
bandwidth using multiple APs on the *same* channels. About the best you<br>
are likely to achieve is three APs on the three non overlapping<br>
channels, and then bond those however you wish (but expect most bonding<br>
implementations to perform poorly over any channel with variable<br>
latency, eg wireless...)<br>
<br>
You might see better performance simply partitioning the machines<br>
manually amongst the three wireless APs?<br>
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Ed W<br>
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