Sophos AP 30 and AP 50, allow customers to roam?
If I have 2 AP30 in different rooms, and move the desktops, they will reconnect the best signal / access-point automatically?
Yes. In fact, with a laptop, you should be able to move from out-of-range for one AP to out-of-range for the other while staying connected. You can create configurations where APs don't have the same networks, but if you haven't done that, you should have no problem.
Cheers - Bob
Sophos UTM Community Moderator Sophos Certified Architect - UTM Sophos Certified Engineer - XG Gold Solution Partner since 2005
does the laptop a reconnect or will the wireless session be moved from one access point to the other (roaming like mobile phones)? For a laptop this will be no real difference, but if you have a wlan sip phone, there will be a difference ifyour connection is broken and the phone has to reconnected or if there is a only change of the ap without any interruption.
I haven't tried it with different channels, but my guess is that that would cause a reconnection instead of just the pass that creates no disruption. If someone tries it, please post the results back to this thread.
Cheers - Bob
Sophos UTM Community Moderator Sophos Certified Architect - UTM Sophos Certified Engineer - XG Gold Solution Partner since 2005
The APs do not have to be on the same channel. However, the roaming performance is often limited by client implementations and some of them can benefit from the APs being on the same channel.
I'm currently testing two AP10's utilizing one SSID and in most cases, the roaming from one Access Point to another is seamless. One caveat I've found, however, is when running an Application like Mumble (VoIP), it's not nearly as graceful as other Application implementations. I'll give this another test with TeamSpeak (another VoIP) to see if they're a bit more lenient. I'd agree that it's up to the Application to allow for a session to have service interruption, however, maintain a tolerance as well as the ability to resume and restore. If the implementation only handles that "handshaking" at the start, my guess would be that roaming would not be useful for that particular scenario.
