Selecting among multiple WAPs with the same SSID (again)

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

Here's a use case that I don't recall having been considered in previous 
discussions of this issue.

I am sitting in an area where there are several WAPs with the same ESSID. 
The WAPs have different capabilities--some are 802.11b, and some are bg. 
I seem to have connected initially to one of the 11b ones, and there seems 
to be nothing I can do to switch to one of the bg ones.

If it's not feasible to give the user a choice of BSSIDs, would it be 
possible to have the connection algorithm give some preference to the 
more capable AP, and/or to re-evaluate which of several BSSIDs to choose 
when making connection decisions?

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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