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I've got a Wi-Fi extender that I use when I'm working out back, but my phone will randomly connect to it when I'm in the house and would prefer it connect to the home Wi-Fi.

is there any way yet to tell my phone to prioritize a network?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

WiFi continually beacons out to try and find previously connected networks and will select for the best signal from an AP it can reach. Extenders can be a trick if you're sitting in the 'crossover' space between the extender and the back haul it connects to.

What you might try instead is one of those distributed AP systems like Unifi or similar where all the APs are controlled by a switch and work in unison. The one I have at least has an ability to disconnect someone if they drop below a certain level and migrate them to another AP without breaking the session states.

The other option that I can think of is just turning off the auto connect for the extender net and only using that manually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

^ the answer. any purpose built mesh system should stream your access seamlessly, extenders won't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most unifi / inter communicating aps that hand off clients to each other using a controller are not mesh systems. Mesh means aps talk to each other wirelessly to pass traffic as a backbone, not to specifically perform client handoff (although it may do that as well as a separate feature)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unifi does both. They have Mesh systems which also can be managed through the centralized router and can pass you off the mesh system onto other APs seamlessly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You’re right they do. But just to clarify the difference based on what the poster was asking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago