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re: Best router out there currently
Posted on 2/15/24 at 6:31 am to Lonnie Utah
Posted on 2/15/24 at 6:31 am to Lonnie Utah
quote:You should probably turn down the power on your APs. Your phone won't drop the connection and look for a better one until the signal is too weak, and all it knows is it still sees a strong enough signal. It doesn't know how weak the signal is the other way.
Occasionally, I'll travel from one side of the house to the other and my phone will want to stay connected to the distant router. Getting it to connect to the strongest one is as simple as turning off the phone's wifi connection and turning it back on.
Posted on 2/15/24 at 8:57 am to Korkstand
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You should probably turn down the power on your APs
I hear you and I get it, but I use these same routers to connect to devices outside of the house. (Ring doorbell, fireTV, ESP8266 to control my LEDs, etc). (And of course each router is dedicated to a different device on different corners of the house... ) So it's a catch 22 situation. It doesn't happen frequently enough (1-2x per month) to really be a problem.
This post was edited on 2/15/24 at 8:58 am
Posted on 2/15/24 at 9:38 pm to Korkstand
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You should probably turn down the power on your APs.
That's a valid point, but the router/mesh software (or the phone) should be smart enough to take throughput vs signal strength, etc., into account. But, even within the same brand, it can be handled differently in the software. Some firmware handles handoff better than others, but he shouldn't need handoff to begin with, unless he lives on a farm. There is a long list of considerations about how the endpoint device does the handoff, or doesn't, as well. Unless he's got a giant property, I'd still suggest trying to do some wifi reception analysis before spending money on hardware and relying on that to fix the problem. This may tell you, depending on how much bandwidth you chew up in certain locations, whether you can get away with a non wired backhaul for your "remote" location. It matters if you you're watching Prime Video, or if your kids are just scrolling Tik Tok, in terms of what you need.
Normal people shouldn't have to get into stuff like turning down AP power to have devices work normally. Especially now that everyone has multiple Wifi networks in their houses, things like channel deconfliction are nearly a fools errand for the above average homeowner.
An option you may have is to create different Wifi networks on the same router. One for media devices, another for mobiles, another for laptops/PCs. That may make the situation better, if you can do it.
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