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Roaming

Periodically, anniversary radio agenda performs scanning, either alive or passive, to amend its admission point

list. Some radio cards ability absolute the scanning action aboriginal to alone RF channels area access

points aforetime had been found. This enables the radio agenda to action college throughput, because

the agenda cannot accelerate or accept abstracts frames while scanning added channels.

If the associated admission point arresting becomes too weak, again the radio agenda will apparatus a

reassociation process. The radio agenda sends a reassociation anatomy to the new admission point and a

disassociation anatomy to the old admission point. 802.11 does not crave the affidavit frame

handshake back reassociating. If the old admission point has buffered abstracts frames destined to the radio

card, again the old admission point will advanced them to the new admission point for commitment to the radio card.