![]() ![]() However, both of these features only work with Apple clients (Mac and iOS). So it seems that's a second undocumented feature for Apple routers/clients:ġ) Seamless roaming over multiple Apple access points. One person gave the example of the situation where if he starts a big file download on his MacBook Pro, it will throttle way back when an Apple TV movie download starts, and will dethrottle when the Apple TV download finishes. The Airport Extremes have no QoS features in the interface, but I was reading online that for Apple clients they will do automatic QoS management. I know Apple has stopped developing WiFi routers, but they're so damn easy to use it may be worth it to get that third unit. Saves me having to go with something like UniFi. I'm tempted to get a third one to fill out the WiFi mesh. ![]() Maybe I was just mistaken back then, or else maybe some software updates have added this feature to both these models. I could have sworn it didn't behave this way when I first got the 802.11ac AE. I never knew this was a feature of Airport Extremes. If I then walk back to this end of the house, it comes back to channel 6 but again it's always at full bars. If I take my MacBook Pro and walk across the house, it starts out on channel 6, and then ends up on channel 1, but the WiFi signal is always at full bars. How do I know this? Well, my 6th gen 802.11ac AE (on 2.4 GHz) is channel 6, and my 802.11n AE is channel 1. ![]() However, I had an old 5th gen 802.11n Airport Extreme in my cupboard so I tried that to extend the network this way (connected via Ethernet) using the same SSID, it seems to do client handoff intelligently, by handing off clients with the other Airport Extreme as needed. When I get weak signal in that room, I just manually change the access point. It was a pain so I eventually just changed the SSID. However, doing this was a problem if I used the same SSID, because the access points would always hang onto to the client until the signal died completely, before the client tried to access a new access point. For the longest time I've been using third party access points connected via Gigabit Ethernet to extend the network. My Airport Extreme 802.11ac works for most of my house, but in one corner I get very weak signal. ![]()
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