Hi,

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Pasi Sjöholm <pasi.sjoh...@jolla.com>
wrote:

> >> -#define BGSCAN_DEFAULT "simple:30:-45:300"
> >> +#define BGSCAN_DEFAULT "simple:30:-65:300"
> > On which devices has this been tested? Do you know whether the reported
> > threshold is reported equally across these devices?
>
> I've several laptops and phones which seem to report the "same" RSSI
> levels by running "wpa_cli scan && wpa_cli scan_result" but in the end the
> wpa_s trusts the data coming from the wlan-driver.
>
> To be honest this setting does not affect devices in which the wlan-driver
> is responsible for roaming as then wpa_s will not do bgscan with those (you
> will see wpa_s reporting "nl80211: Using driver-based roaming" then).
>
> The main point is that the -45dBm is considered very good RSSI-value and
> we should not be scanning unnecessarily as scanning will block other
> operations. Can't say if -65dBm is the _correct_ value but it's better than
> -45dBm.
>

On my devices I'm really happy with -45 dBm (rt2x00usb devices, and ath6kl
usb devices).

I start to be in trouble at -70dBm, so I also decide to reduce the
threshold to -65dBm.

https://github.com/aldebaran/connman/commit/278780b2cff48f0a9e9a46d54ffafe384167249e

Regards,
Julien
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