iPad and a roaming wifi network

Could it be that your next access point is overloaded with users? There are a finite number of users able to connect to a wifi hotspot. The more users there are the slowwer the speeds are. Maybe the ipad checks access speed as well as signal strength to detemine which access point to attach to.

I do not know a whole lot about Dlink access points.. Make sure the NAT and any firewalls or rules are turned off on the 2nd access point.

Ok, so I have a wifi router AND a range extender in my home. When I move from one room (where the router is located) and its signal starts tapering off, and I move to the other area of the house where the extender is located, is there a way to get my iPad device to automatically 'switch' over to the range extender?

As of right now, I have to manually go into the Settings > Wifi, and switch between the router and the range extender. Is there a way for the iPad to do this on it's own, much the same way a cell phone gets handed-off from one tower to another during 'mobile' usage?

Thanks,

Tory W.

As long as both networks are known (previously connected) and you have turned off the

Settings>Wifi>Ask to Join Networks

It should reconnect as you move about, however you will lose connection briefly, so if streaming a movie for example, you would lose connection to main network and then have to start the movie back up after joining the extender.

I just had a similar problem

Home network with two Wireless Access Points (Both TP-Link routers), both with same SSID and password, both using WPA2-PSK with AES encryption. Moving from one end of the house to the other would mean my iPad would stay locked to the very weak signal of the first access point. Google Nexus seemed better at switching access points.

I appear to have fixed this by manually setting the channel number of the two routers to two different numbers, rather than leaving them as auto. I picked two channels at random - in my case 5 and 7. I guess thatthey were on the same channel and either interfering or perhaps this was something to do with the way the iPad identifies different access points. Anyway, fingers crossed this now works okay.

yes there is WIFI roaming if you have several APs with the same authentication method login and SSID.

And it doesn't work good, even using eap-leap and eap-fast (using an MDM you can use those options)