On 26/05/2020 02:39, Andrew Smallshaw wrote:
> Multiple AP networks seem to
> have some mystery about them in the hobbyist community where they're
> regarded as esoteric, but these things are designed for enterprise
> deployment - AP selection and indeed handover were baked into the
> spec on day one and essentially work automatically.
Except they simply do NOT.
I have three WAPS here. I started out giving them the same
SSID/password. My laptop and my mobile phone would both resolutely hold
on to the one they initially connected to long past the time when the
damned things speed had dropped to unusable.
Now they all have different SSIDs so I can force the devices to use the
nearest one ...
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Climate is what you expect but weather is what you get.
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