[GLLUG] Range Expander doesn't work in Ubuntu??

[Richard Houser]

What does iwlist show?  Linux can bind to a specific access point by 
wireless MAC address, even with a duplicate SSID present.  Ideally, that 
should be avoided to allow the machine to pick it's own connection based 
on signal strength.

Unless that range extender is using two different channels for the links 
(one for the clients and a second one for the connection to the AP), 
even in theory, you should have less than half the otherwise available 
bandwidth.  I'm curious about your setup, is there some reason you 
couldn't either run a CAT-5 line to the location where you have the 
access point or just put a better antenna on the access point itself?

Benjamin Cathey wrote:
> Okay - So I have a Linksys wireless setup (the DHCP server is actually a firewall.) I have never really had a problem with it before.  I can't seem to get the range expander to work though.  According to linksys (and this makes sense to me) they NEED to have the same SSID.  Maybe this is confusing the nm-applet?  Does anyone have experience or advice with this?  I am using it NOW in windows (dual-boot) and it is working fine.  Windows shows two networks with the same SSID but one is much closer.  
> 
> Linux seems to see the closer one (with that SSID the signal strength is high enough that I know it's the range expander) but it won't connect.
> 
> HELP!?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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