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paraplu

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Mesh products are currently like popcorn. But how do they handle voip calls while moving around the area? A practice test on this subject would be interesting.
 
Mesh products are currently like popcorn. But how do they handle voip calls while moving around the area? A practice test on this subject would be interesting.

From a practical experience - Airport Extreme AC's do a nice job - both with "extended" networks over WiFi as well as "Roaming" networks backhauled over ethernet with a different router handling the WAN/LAN side...

The big thing, whether it's "mesh" or old school - proper placement of AP's is key, as the hops are basically client side, not the AP side... and mesh won't fix that - no matter how things are done between AP's, the location of the AP's is very important with respect to where the client is...

(upside with MESH - they basically do common SSID, and this is something that I've been a big proponent of anyways)
 
Fast roaming depends a lot on what the client supports. How many clients and which ones should be tested?
 
Fast roaming depends a lot on what the client supports. How many clients and which ones should be tested?

Well the most popular client would be iPhone/iPad, followed by recent Samsung Galaxy, I think. Both these devices do support roaming protocols. Business laptops, most with intel n/ac wifi chips, would be good candidates as well. The laptops I used roamed perfectly fine on Cisco office networks.
As for how many, for smaller offices I would guess three concurrent?
 
If I do this it will be simple. One device supporting 802.11 k, v, r and one that doesn't.
 
Fair enough. The roaming behavior of two voip clients while moving around the area would be interesting. Thanks.
 

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