Ah I see... yes, of course you are right about the SSID. Thanks.

"Karlos" <buonacorsi@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Surely they wouldn't connect if they didn't have the same SSID... they
> wouldn't be able to find each other. As long as they are on a
> different channel, they should not conflict, just happily overlap.
>
> The school I work in is set out in the same way with the Access Points,
> three of which have the same SSID so that laptops can connect to the
> same SSID without reconfiguration whereever they are in the school... I
> can't see why a home network should be any different.
>