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Hi!

I am experiencing a hand-over (or what ever it is called) problem in my home wlan. I have 2 Buffalo wlan base stations, the other one working in router mode and the other one as "normal" base station that is connected to the router via Ethernet cable. The router is connected then to Internet via cable-modem. My Mac laptop can use always the nearest base station of those two, but for some reason my N900 always wants to use the router although it is so far away that it does not get signal. Even if my base station is next to N900, N900 does not want to connect to it. It can see it when I observe wlan base stations with WifiEye. Both base stations have same SSID and they use WPA2-PSK authentication with AES encryption.
 
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what about the channels? are they on the same channel?
 
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Yes they are. Do you think it would have worked in my laptop if they were in wrong channel?
 
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Dummy me!!! I had somehow overlooked the MAC filtering setting in my 2nd base station. It was on and had laptop's MAC address there, but not my N900's MAC address. In router the whole filtering was set off. So I set it off also in my base station. And now it works! :-) Great. Stupid mistake, but luckily I posted the question into this forum so it kind of helped when I did yet another look on the differencies of settings between these two stations.
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Originally Posted by jojumaso View Post
Yes they are. Do you think it would have worked in my laptop if they were in wrong channel?
Yeahhhh true tho
 
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