#CONFIGURE APPLE AIRPORT ANDROID#

One of your Wi-Fi gateways needs to act as the “main” unit. The tricks to setting up an ethernet-connected AirPort replacement network are straightforward:

Roaming devices should switch automatically from a weak signal to a stronger one, but iPhones in particular seem to sometimes stick to a weak signal even when it provides a very slow link and much closer routers are available.)

(Because this roaming is dependent on individual devices, you can see different performance among them. Apple made it easy to set up a series of base stations that could have unique individual names (to identify them for configuration), but could be set to share the same network name to allow devices to roam.

#CONFIGURE APPLE AIRPORT ANDROID#

Any device that has a Wi-Fi adapter that lets it connect to a network-whether an iPad, laptop, Nintendo Switch, Android phone, or smart fridge-automatically roams among base stations that share the same network name and encryption setup, including password. Readers ask for what was a breeze with AirPort configurations: a single network that allows devices to roam seamlessly without awkward handoffs between base stations. Mesh may sound great, but why not use the wiring we have? Such readers are in the same situation I am in: we have some ethernet wiring or have strung some ethernet cables in the house to connect base stations and just want to swap out what we have for the latest. I increasingly get email from readers who have failing or kaput AirPort base station equipment and want to set up a network with the same simplicity, but at a lower cost than mesh options.

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