You can always alter the SSID & password and present it as a completely different network (even you can run a different DHCP to make it a subnet effectively). However, when you keep the SSID the same, your devices can roam much easier.
In fact, WiFi has a roaming standard and latest devices can utilize this for mesh-like handoff without a central controller.
Recent laptops and phones handle it relatively well, it seems.
Mine (a TP-Link RE-200) can do anything you want with it. If you add it to a OneMesh network, these settings are (sensibly) disabled and synced from the root node (the router).
Mine, TP-Link from 2013 could definetely not do this : I assume because it just retransmitted the packets and did not have the horsepower to do a decrypt+recrypt.
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You can always alter the SSID & password and present it as a completely different network (even you can run a different DHCP to make it a subnet effectively). However, when you keep the SSID the same, your devices can roam much easier.
In fact, WiFi has a roaming standard and latest devices can utilize this for mesh-like handoff without a central controller.
Recent laptops and phones handle it relatively well, it seems.
The WiFI extender I used could not change the passphrase.
Mine (a TP-Link RE-200) can do anything you want with it. If you add it to a OneMesh network, these settings are (sensibly) disabled and synced from the root node (the router).
Mine, TP-Link from 2013 could definetely not do this : I assume because it just retransmitted the packets and did not have the horsepower to do a decrypt+recrypt.
Probably. SoC based devices improved explosively in the last 5 years.