Apple Training Series: Desktop and Portable Systems, Second Edition

Roaming with AirPort

AirPort provides a roaming feature that gives a client the ability to move from one base station to another without losing the wireless connection.

Base stations on the same subnet with the same network name, channel, and password automatically provide roaming. The base stations for a roaming setup must be connected via Ethernet, but they can be a mixed group of any base station models.

For example, a client can roam from its association with base station 1 and dynamically associate with base station 2. As the client moves away from base station 1, its connection strength becomes weaker, and eventually the roaming client seeks out a stronger signal. In this case, the client senses that base station 2 has a stronger signal, ...