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[pdub]

I have purchased two dir-655s that are hard wired into my network, one into the modem, and the other into the first 655.  So far so good.  I've set them both up to have the same wireless settings (SSID, password, etc.).

However as I move through my house, I have to manually drop the wireless connection and reconnect in order to pick up the stronger wireless network. 

Is there a way to get this to work more seamlessly?  Do I need a different product for the second AP?

Looking at these forums, I've seen some similar questions with conflicting answers.

Thanks for any help.

[kthaddock]

Just use them with same, SSID, Pre-Shared Key, wpa-personal, wpa2,
aes with different channels 1-6-11 in US 1-7-13 in EU.
Then they roaming itself. Simple as that

[a2b]

I don't think you can auto-renogiate two signal boundaries in the router, at most its pre-empts the signal strength -maybe with a dual radio this is posssible but looks like overkill I supose 

[pdub]

Just use them with same, SSID, Pre-Shared Key, wpa-personal, wpa2,
aes with different channels 1-6-11 in US 1-7-13 in EU.
Then they roaming itself. Simple as that

Just to clarify, set one of them hard coded to channel 1, and the other hard coded to channel 6 (or 1/11, etc.)?

[kthaddock]

Just to clarify, set one of them hard coded to channel 1, and the other hard coded to channel 6 (or 1/11, etc.)?

YES

You have to have LAN to LAN to your second dir-655 and on that turn off DHCP, Upnp, Multicast Streams and DNS Relay

[pdub]

Cool, thanks.  I'll tweak the channel settings tonight.  Thanks for the help.

[EddieZ]

And on your wireless clients: set roaming aggressiveness to very strong.

[coolqf]

You could also just change the SSID on the routers, but keep the passwords the same.  I've read that this may help your computer choosing the best wifi conn.  I've done this with Linksys and it works.