Problem Extending Airport Extreme Network
Thank you in advance for any advice
Have 3 brand new Airport Extreme Base Stations - having problem extending the wifi network in a campus setting to allow for seamless roaming of clients between ap's
Base Station 1 is Master - set to Bridge Mode - connected to Verizon FiOs router via ethernet WAN port - upon initial set up, an older generation Airport Extreme config was copied over to this Base station
Issue: Suspect that there was build or config corruption as a result of the config copy from older Airport extreme ? - see below
Base Station 2 connected to network switch via ethernet WAN port & is configured to extend Base Station 1 using Wizard - the wizard appears to complete successfully but......
Issue: Base Station 2 Network Mode setting still shows "Create a wireless network" ....but should say Extend a wireless network
Issue #2: Clients seem to have to reconnect when roaming depending on which access point they are closest to, which suggests that the SSID has not been extended
Base Station 3 - connected to network switch via ethernet WAN port & attempted to configure to extend Base Station 1 using Wizard - FAIL
Issue: This brings the entire network down, makes all wifi inaccessible, have to power off Base Station 3 and powercycle Base Station 1 and 2 for everything to return to normal
Questions:
- Should I be having this much trouble extending the wireless network ?
- Is it possible to extend a network with 2 access points off of one for a total of 3 access points ?
- Is the extension happening via wireless or via the ethernet connection ? there used to a be setting where the access points would link via ethernet has this gone away ?
- Are there any whitepapers that document best practices for deploying multiple access points in a campus environment to allow seamless roaming ?
Airport Extreme Base Station-OTHER, Other OS