How do I make my phone connect to one of two wifi points when both are within range?
How do I make my phone connect to one of two wifi points when both are within range?
Basically, I have an extender for the garden but whenever I go to the garden, my phone remains connected to the extender when I'm back in the house and I can always tell because everything is always slower to load when connecting through it.
How can I make my devices strongly prefer to connect to one SSID when both are there?
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Are they both using the same SSID or sperate?
If you search your phone for wifi priority you can set a preference.
If the same SSID, it should automatically swap to the highest connection strength AP. Depending on the networking hardware you might beable to addjust single strength. They could be overlapping, and reducing singal overlap may help the phone determine what AP it wants a bit easier.
Agree with reducing power. A common mistake when using multiple access points is to set them all to full power.
Devices usually don't constantly look for a better signal, instead they look for alternatives once the current connection quality is bad. Some devices will hold on for dear life until it's borderline unusable.
Unless you're looking for redundancy, the best case scenario is to have only one good option in every area of your home. That's not always possible, especially where they overlap, but the closer you can get to that ideal, the more likely it is that your device will make the switch.
You should also be able to adjust the backhaul power separately, so you don't have connectivity issues between the extender and router.
There's also the WiFi roaming sensitivity settings that I know at least Intel adapters have. I recall it being on the client side, but I'm definitely no expert.
Thanks for expanding on the knowledge. I was mainly speculating a bunch of stuff seeing limited information of the setup was provided. You explained that much better than myself.
If the same SSID, it should automatically swap to the highest connection strength AP
Unfortunately, that is not part of any WiFi protocol standards. Never has been. It would be amazing if it were.
A few solution providers have bolted on their own proprietary junk to WiFi standards to kinda make this work, but it's generally expensive and still not flawless.