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We have a quite a long house with the router at one end. Naturally when in the living room at the other end the signal is flakey at best. We've tried a number of routers in the past to no avail, and had just invested in a wireless powerline kit (TP-link TL-WPA281kit). This solves the connection issue, but we now have two SSID's.
My issue here is that my parents ipad will only automatically switch networks if it completely drops the one its connected to, ie if we're sitting in the living room it will hang on to the routers wifi for dear life, still giving painfully slow internet, instead of switching to the full strength signal coming from the powerline. Obviously I can still switch manually between networks, but i can tell that it will be a huge issue for my technophobe mother, who won't want to deal with the extra hassle (FYI telling her just to deal with it won't go down well
so long story short, can I make an ipad automatically switch to a stronger network?
Edit: title is supposed to read ios, not io5...
My issue here is that my parents ipad will only automatically switch networks if it completely drops the one its connected to, ie if we're sitting in the living room it will hang on to the routers wifi for dear life, still giving painfully slow internet, instead of switching to the full strength signal coming from the powerline. Obviously I can still switch manually between networks, but i can tell that it will be a huge issue for my technophobe mother, who won't want to deal with the extra hassle (FYI telling her just to deal with it won't go down well
so long story short, can I make an ipad automatically switch to a stronger network?
Edit: title is supposed to read ios, not io5...
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