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1. Wi-Fi is of course capable of reconnecting fast, so you don't even notice it. When you see a multiple seconds worth of a connectivity gap, it's likely not be
by nine_k 2y ago
1. Wi-Fi is of course capable of reconnecting fast, so you don't even notice it. When you see a multiple seconds worth of a connectivity gap, it's likely not because Wi-Fi is stupidly waiting. Most probably it's radio interference, or the access point can be overloaded and have not enough resources to service all the connections, so it drops some.
2. Wi-Fi is a transport layer; equally TCP and even HTTP do not offer a generic mechanism for logging in and accepting terms. This needs to be addressed at a different level, but I totally agree, it would be great to have a reasonable standard that's open and is better than a captive portal.
- ajb 2y agoOr it can be multiple access points on the same SSID without 802.11r set up properly
- jessriedel 2y ago1. When I have looked into this, it turns out the basic WiFi standard has rules about polling rate (allegedly to save power). Like, the standard is literally something like “poll for a few hundred microseconds every couple seconds”. Macbooks even have special workarounds that decrease the connection time by ~half by mildly abusing the standard.