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Adding APs

Adding APs

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Adding APs

- In this video, we want to see how to add some access points to our existing network. Our existing network currently has a single access point, but the final network that we're setting up is going to have five access points. We're going to have these access points scattered throughout a fairly large home, upstairs and downstairs and we want to add now four additional access points. The goal is we want our end stations like a smartphone or a laptop. We want those in stations to roam seamlessly around the home and associate with an appropriate access point based on their location in the house. And to do that we're going to add some access points and we'll scatter them physically around the house and we'll take a look in an upcoming video, at how to make sure we are using different channels to minimize interference between the access points. But right now we just need to add these four access points to our controller and as…

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