It was the highest praise Leo had ever received.
Leo’s legacy access points (APs) were using the old 802.11 standard. When a laptop moved from one AP to another, it had to fully re-authenticate: Probe. Authenticate. Associate. Four-way handshake. It took nearly a full second. In Wi-Fi time, that was an eternity. Windows 10, in particular, was stubborn. It clung to the old AP like a toddler refusing to let go of a toy, even as the signal dropped to one bar. 802.11 r windows 10
He logged into the controller. He enabled "Fast Transition" on the main SSID, "Nexus-Corp." He set it to "Adaptive" mode—so old devices wouldn't break. Then he rebooted the APs. It was the highest praise Leo had ever received
The swarm arrived. Leo watched the dashboard like a hawk. The "Roaming Latency" graph flatlined near zero. Authenticate
Leo punched the air. "Yes!"
There was just one catch. For 802.11r to work, everything had to agree: the controller, the APs, and the client. And Windows 10… well, Windows 10 was a diva.
Leo decided to deploy it on a Friday night, when the office was empty.