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More Nintendo Wireless Wierdness

While the solution of sharing a common BSSID between two AP's was working nicely for the Wii, the more I thought about it the less of an ideal solution it seems to be.

The issue that would be arising would be that during handover, there would be all manner of problems each AP having a different PMK, but the computer not actually being aware that it is talking to a different device, causing the actual process of the handover to take longer than it should due to the reauth that needs to take place.

That said, the issue of the Wii not working was still present, so I decided to have another look at it.

Upon further inspection it seems that the Wii was having issues connecting to my Edimax-7206 Access point, no matter what the other access point was doing. One setting however seemed to let the Wii connect quite happily.

In its configuration the Edimax access point (like most) allows the user to select either 802.11G only or B and G (for compatibility). Given that all of the the devices that run on our network are G, I had naturally set this to be G only. Upon setting it to B+G however I found that the Wii decided that it would connect.

How strange…

Anyway, it now works (with one AP on G only and the other on G+B) with both Access Points running on a seperate BSSID again and on different channels.

Happy days.