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Re:ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity by timschmidt on Friday January 12, 2024 @05:21PM (#38974930)
If you've set up many APs already, and find client devices sticking to them too strongly, this is a sign to turn down transmit power on the AP in question. Most ship set to "Max" which is terrible for SNR and spatial separation. Turning down transmit power will cause the client to switch sooner, non-intuitively providing more bandwidth due to better utilization of spatial separation.
Re:ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity by londons_explore on Saturday January 13, 2024 @01:52AM (#38977879)
The mere fact there is a single knob for 'transmit power', rather than the transmit power being automatically determined by the clients location relative to the AP, other AP's, and noise sources tells you a lot about the maturity of WiFi as a spec...
Re:ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity by franga2000 on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:45AM (#38978794)
I've seen that work well in open areas where APs overlap significantly, but in places with walls where you walk from one bubble to another, it still usually takes to long for a device to figure out it should switch and then actually do it. I've never had a video call even stutter when moving between LTE cells, but on WiFi, calls sometimes drop outright, even when walking down a long hallway with many APs.