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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	2 Jun 2013 18:29
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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! ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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From:	graphitone	2 Jun 2013 20:12
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	2 of 13

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:'-D Drawings n' that

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From:	Dave!!	2 Jun 2013 22:05
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	3 of 13

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My Wifi behaves in a super-awesome way. HTH! ---

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From:	Manthorp	2 Jun 2013 22:06
To:	Dave!!	4 of 13

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But you hold it together with evil black magic rituals. "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951 www.mynameislegion.org

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From:	Dave!!	2 Jun 2013 22:09
To:	Manthorp	5 of 13

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Shh! The goat lived and all charged were dropped. I thought we'd agreed to leave it at that? :T ---

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From:	Manthorp	2 Jun 2013 22:26
To:	Dave!!	6 of 13

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You can't escape Teh Great Network Charges. "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951 www.mynameislegion.org

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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	3 Jun 2013 00:31
To:	Dave!!	7 of 13

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Is super awesome code for acting just like I described? ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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From:	PNCOOL	4 Jun 2013 15:30
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	8 of 13

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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. *PNCOOL*

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	4 Jun 2013 15:50
To:	PNCOOL	9 of 13

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Ha, I didn't realise "roaming aggressiveness" was actually a setting, I've checked and it is! ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	PNCOOL	4 Jun 2013 16:11
To:	ANT_THOMAS	10 of 13

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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. *PNCOOL*

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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	4 Jun 2013 19:10
To:	PNCOOL	11 of 13

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I've done that in the past but didn't notice much difference. Do you notice it working for you? ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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From:	PNCOOL	5 Jun 2013 11:24
To:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	12 of 13

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Yeah, on some of our laptops I see it jumping between APs when I'm walking down a corridor much quicker. *PNCOOL*

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From:	Ken (SHIELDSIT)	5 Jun 2013 20:10
To:	PNCOOL	13 of 13

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Well I guess I'll give it another try then. I just remember being very disappointed the last time I tried it. ------------------------- I'm not sick, but I'm not well

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