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Sybs Aug 17, 2023

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? - Lemmy.world

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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Fubar91 Aug 17, 2023

Are they both using the same SSID or sperate?

If you search your phone for wifi priority you can set a presence.

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.

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krayj

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.