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If you've set up many APs already, and find client devices sticking to them too strongly, this is a sign to turn down transmit power on the AP in question. Mos
by timschmidt 3y ago
If you've set up many APs already, and find client devices sticking to them too strongly, this is a sign to turn down transmit power on the AP in question. Most ship set to "Max" which is terrible for SNR and spatial separation. Turning down transmit power will cause the client to switch sooner, non-intuitively providing more bandwidth due to better utilization of spatial separation.
- londons_explore 3y agoThe mere fact there is a single knob for 'transmit power', rather than the transmit power being automatically determined by the clients location relative to the AP, other AP's, and noise sources tells you a lot about the maturity of WiFi as a spec...
- franga2000 3y agoI've seen that work well in open areas where APs overlap significantly, but in places with walls where you walk from one bubble to another, it still usually takes to long for a device to figure out it should switch and then actually do it. I've never had a video call even stutter when moving between LTE cells, but on WiFi, calls sometimes drop outright, even when walking down a long hallway with many APs.