why do phones try to stick to a connected wifi network for dear life even though I’ve moved far from it that it’s barely useable anymore; all while I’m near another ‘remembered’ wifi network with very strong signal?
The phone knows the password of the other wifi that I’m near at, and i have set it to auto-join. But no it refuse to connect to it and prefer to hold onto where it’s last connected. I need to manually tap the other network everytime I move.
In: Engineering
Your phone knows it has working connectivity on the current network and it doesn’t necessarily look for another network until it drops off.
Now, there are ways to mitigate this – a properly configured WiFi network will have a minimum rate set to something sensible, so clients will drop off sooner. A proper multi-ap deployment would also use a setup that properly hands off clients between different access points.
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