Patent ID: 7881718

Claim:
A wireless communication system, comprising: a station that conducts wireless communication with a wireless access point; and a handover suppression apparatus that is connectable to the station, wherein the handover suppression apparatus comprises a suppression signal transmitting unit that transmits a suppression signal to suppress a handover by the station, and a radio wave responder unit that transmits, at reception of a radio wave from the station, a reply radio wave in response to the radio wave, wherein the station comprises a communication control unit that conducts, upon receipt of the suppression signal, a control operation to fix the wireless access point to which the station belongs, without conducting a handover, wherein the communication control unit holds a handover suppressed state in which the wireless access point to which the station belongs is fixed, according to the reply radio wave, after the station is disconnected from the handover suppression apparatus, wherein the communication control unit holds a handover suppressed state in which the wireless access point to which the station belongs is fixed, so long as the reply radio wave from the radio wave responder unit has an intensity of radio wave equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, after the station is disconnected from the handover suppression apparatus, and wherein the communication control unit releases the handover suppressed state when the intensity of radio wave is less than the threshold value.