XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: unet.lighthouse@xoxy.net   
      
   So it is writ, so mote it be....   
   Brian Gregory :   
   > On 31/01/2016 05:29, Alice J. wrote:   
   >> Mike Yetto wrote in message   
   >> slrn20160130230128.597.twooffive@may.eternal-september.org:   
   >>   
   >>> If several Wi-Fi networks in an area all showed the same BSSID   
   >>> they would cause collisions among and between all of the   
   >>> networks.   
   >>   
   >> Again, I was wrong.   
   >> Thank you for clarifying.   
   >> I was thinking that we clone MAC addresses on the router all the   
   >> time and it causes no problem.   
   >>   
   >> But, Jeff (and you) explained we only clone the WAN wired MAC address   
   >> while Google is stealing our LAN wireless addresses.   
   >>   
   >> May I presume that Google steals both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz BSSID's?   
   >>   
      
   > Two different devices with the same MAC connecting one at a time to the   
   > same router certainly causes no problems at all.   
      
   > Two devices with the same MAC connecting at the same time to the same   
   > router might only cause a minor problem that wouldn't matter in   
   > practice. Especially if they managed to get different IP addresses.   
      
   > Even if they ended up with the same IP address as well (which I think   
   > would be likely) they might mostly be able to work simply by dropping   
   > packets they received that didn't make sense (arrived to port that they   
   > weren't expected to arrive on).   
      
   I think the original recommendation was to use the same SSID and   
   MAC address on all wireless _routers._ This is certainly different   
   than what you just explained and would/could cause a client to   
   try to jump from one access point to another only to be   
   disconnected because of the different (hopefully) wireless   
   passwords.   
      
   Mike "and hilarity will ensue" Yetto   
   --   
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   point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."   
    - George Bernard Shaw   
      
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