Wifi ≠ Brain Surgery

From: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 2 Jun 2013 18:29
To: ALL1 of 13
Why is it soooo fucking hard to have Wifi behave? It refuses to connect to the strongest/nearest AP! This happens on Windows and also in Android. I have an app for my phone that /sort of/ helps with this but good fucking lord, how hard can it be to say "See that fucker right there at 98% strength? How about we drop this one that is only 33% and jump on the better one!" Fuck me!

3G/LTE also does this so maybe it's something with the specs? If you have something streaming in 3G and move into an LTE area the phone /Will Not/ jump to LTE until all traffic has stopped. 

Maybe these specs were put together by the Amish, I bet that's it!  Fucking Amish anyway!
From: graphitone 2 Jun 2013 20:12
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 2 of 13
 :'-D
From: Dave!! 2 Jun 2013 22:05
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 3 of 13
My Wifi behaves in a super-awesome way.

HTH!
From: Manthorp 2 Jun 2013 22:06
To: Dave!! 4 of 13
But you hold it together with evil black magic rituals.
From: Dave!! 2 Jun 2013 22:09
To: Manthorp 5 of 13
Shh! The goat lived and all charged were dropped. I thought we'd agreed to leave it at that?  :T
From: Manthorp 2 Jun 2013 22:26
To: Dave!! 6 of 13
You can't escape Teh Great Network Charges.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 3 Jun 2013 00:31
To: Dave!! 7 of 13
Is super awesome code for acting just like I described?
From: PNCOOL 4 Jun 2013 15:30
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 8 of 13
I always set any of our wifi devices at work to have the maximum roaming aggressiveness, just so that the better APs are always used.
From: ANT_THOMAS 4 Jun 2013 15:50
To: PNCOOL 9 of 13
Ha, I didn't realise "roaming aggressiveness" was actually a setting, I've checked and it is!
From: PNCOOL 4 Jun 2013 16:11
To: ANT_THOMAS 10 of 13
It is, I always change that on our laptops in work.  Seems to be there on most Intel-based wifi cards.  Don't seem to have that setting on my phone though, so it really is a hardware and driver based thing.  You can either change it, or you can't. 

Does affect battery life a bit though, as it's checking more often when it's set to be more aggressive.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 4 Jun 2013 19:10
To: PNCOOL 11 of 13
I've done that in the past but didn't notice much difference. Do you notice it working for you?
From: PNCOOL 5 Jun 2013 11:24
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 12 of 13
Yeah, on some of our laptops I see it jumping between APs when I'm walking down a corridor much quicker.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 5 Jun 2013 20:10
To: PNCOOL 13 of 13
Well I guess I'll give it another try then.  I just remember being very disappointed the last time I tried it.