Thank you for the reply. I have been adjusting the power settings and that seems to have helped to some degree. I am going to continue this approach. It seems to me that the Dynamic Power Control adjustments are not functioning as I would expect them to. I have 2 AP's about 25 to 30 feet apart and when I leave the power settings to global, it adjusts power to full strength.

I believe the algorithm for TPC requires 3 APs to hear this particular AP at a specific threshold. So, if you only have two APs, no matter how close you put them, it isn't enough to scale down the power.

One test you could do is look at what RSSI your client has when you are expecting it to roam. If you are still better than -65 (or around there), you probably haven't reached the clients threshold.

The fact that your APs are 25 to 30 feet apart, if they are truely at power level 1, it may not be unreasonable to have get 10-20 feet past this 2nd for your client to roam.

Bottom line, client chooss when to roam.

It appears that this in fact may be the case. It takes about 10 to 15 feet past the second AP before my client will roam to the next AP. I agree the power is not the only factor even though it did help to a certain degree. I am considering removing one of the AP's. I may be to dense in this area.

your saying there is a setting on the client to force it to hop to the next ap? I am having this same issue. I have 4 ap's, all same ssid, encryption..etc, 1 is set as parent, the other 3 are repeaters. I have run wireless signal strength tests, and my laptop will not switch to next ap untill signal strength drops to 20%. even if i'm standing directly next to repeater ap. any suggestions?

Every wireless card is different so I'm not sure if there is or not. I was hoping that there would be a way that the controller could tell a client to start looking for a better RSSI after a certain threshold. However, I am having trouble similar to yours in that my clients don't want to let go of what they are associated to even though I know for a fact that there is a better RSSI say..... 15 feet away for example.

There are a few things worth considering asnd playing with. How far apart are the access points? What power settings (cell size)? Data rates allowed? These varibles could improve/worsen the situation. Without knowing exactly the set up you have, I would suggest playing around with these varibles.

Thank you for the reply. I am actually in the process of doing exactly that. I will let you all know what the results are.