Automatic WiFi switching on Mac OSX

[Mekrel]

I've recently moved into a new house and there was a WiFi black spot towards the back of the house, so I installed an AV500 WiFi powerline adapter and cloned one of the WiFi networks.

This is the setup:

• Virgin Superhub 2 - 2 x networks, 1 x 5Ghz and 1 x 2.4Ghz
• Powerline WiFi adapter which has cloned the 2.4Ghz network

I'm running MacOSX 10.10.5 on an early 2013 rMBP 15" and it doesn't seem to automatically connect to the stronger network when I switch rooms. When I say stronger, I actually mean the network my MBP remains on is so weak signal wise that I can't actually get any webpages to load.

Is this normal behaviour to have to manually change networks, or am I missing something?

 

[uniQ]

In terminal paste:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport prefs

Have a look for JoinMode. Change it to JoinMode=Strongest

Otherwise there's a few things you can do such as having different SSID's setting locations and ordering them by preference/location.