Soldato
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Since I first got a laptop that did 5GHz WiFi as-well as 2.4GHz back in 2007, I have been running a dual band network.
All of my 2.4GHz access points have the same SSID/WPA2 as each other, but are on different channels, and a device sucessfully roams between them when moving through the house depending on which AP it has the best signal from.
All of my 5GHz access points have the same SSID/WPA2 as each other, but it's different from the 2.4GHz SSID, and they're all on different channels, and a device sucessfully roams between them when moving through the house depending on which AP it has the best signal from.
All of my dual band devices have the 5GHz network listed as higher priority in their network preferences settings, but they will of-course connect to the 2.4GHz when they cannot see the 5GHz.
I was just thinking about it, and I can't really figure out why I gave the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks different SSIDs? Would there be any harm in changing them both to be the same SSID? Would a dual band device, when it sees both a 2.4GHz and a 5GHz AP on the same SSID, be able to work out which one was the fastest and know to join it?
Thinking outloud, as it currently is with my dual band devices being set to prefer the 5GHz SSID, they could be hanging on to a weak 5GHz connection when there's a strong 2.4GHz available but not joining it as it's a different SSID...
Comments?
All of my 2.4GHz access points have the same SSID/WPA2 as each other, but are on different channels, and a device sucessfully roams between them when moving through the house depending on which AP it has the best signal from.
All of my 5GHz access points have the same SSID/WPA2 as each other, but it's different from the 2.4GHz SSID, and they're all on different channels, and a device sucessfully roams between them when moving through the house depending on which AP it has the best signal from.
All of my dual band devices have the 5GHz network listed as higher priority in their network preferences settings, but they will of-course connect to the 2.4GHz when they cannot see the 5GHz.
I was just thinking about it, and I can't really figure out why I gave the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks different SSIDs? Would there be any harm in changing them both to be the same SSID? Would a dual band device, when it sees both a 2.4GHz and a 5GHz AP on the same SSID, be able to work out which one was the fastest and know to join it?
Thinking outloud, as it currently is with my dual band devices being set to prefer the 5GHz SSID, they could be hanging on to a weak 5GHz connection when there's a strong 2.4GHz available but not joining it as it's a different SSID...
Comments?