solitone wrote: > On Thursday, 20 July 2017 10:05:56 CEST Dan Purgert wrote: >> That being said, most network admins worth anything will be approaching >> the problem from their side too (e.g. with band steering), in order to >> "encourage" client devices to connect to the 5 GHz signal. > > I've tried the band steering option on my AP, but my network card > would rather connect to the 2.4 GHz channel anyhow. It seems to worth > signal level very much, and the 5 GHz signal is usually weaker than > 2.4. Therefore I made do with weakening the 2.4 GHz signal.
Yep, this is a usual / recommended thing. I usually have 2.4 on "low" (or lowest power setting possible), and 5 GHz on "medium" (or somewhere around midrange Tx power). Then again, I'm just as apt to turn 2.4 off. > > Funnily enough other clients (two android devices and a windows > laptop) prefer 5 GHz even when it's weaker and my linux laptop > connects to 2.4. Yep, some clients are better at going to 5 (or listening to the recommendations from the AP). -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281