Fast / seamless roaming through ethernet with OpenWRT

[psherman]

I’ve written about this recently.

Setup house 802.11r RE305/RE200

I want to echo the sentiment that 802.11r is not needed in most situations. It is a common misconception that this standard is either required for roaming or that it will dramatically increase roaming performance (reduce roaming latency, etc.). Fast roaming (802.11r) is not required for roaming to work in general. Roaming is a client (sta mode) side operation and relies on two factors: A well tuned RF environment -- that is, the placement, channel selection and power level adjustment (i.e. r…

Happy to answer any questions or continue the conversation. The tl;dr is that you may be best served by not using 802.11r.