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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Sounds like you need to enable 802.1r for fast roaming between APs on both access points and then make sure the SSIDs are the same.
Also, you can improve things by splitting your 2.4ghz, 5ghz, and 6ghz (if applicable) onto separate SSIDs, with your phone connected to the 5ghz band. Since it has lower range, it will likely roam better because the signal from one to the other will be more “apparent” to your devices.
I have the 5 and 2.4 split. I can’t give the extender the same SSID because I need my backyard security cameras to connect only to that one
I totally agree we should have the ability to tell it what to use, and it should make a concerted effort to those in order.
Funny how many responses you’re getting to the effect of explaining why your phone is doing what it’s doing, which is not at all what you asked. People feel the absolute need to spew, regardless of whether they actually have anything to contribute. Or, they’re bots guessing at what you wanted lol.
So okay all the must-say-somethings, shoot your load and leave lol. We’ll be sure to downvote appropriately. The standard routine continues.
at least they’re being polite about it.
That’s true :)
Afaik this is a host “problem”, not client. If you have a Asus mesh, you can set some rssi level at when the host will disconnect the client so the client will connect on the other AP.
Else the client will happily stay on the weaker host. On
If the extender has a different SSID, you can disable auto connect for that access point.
having to manually connect to it is the same amount of work is manually disconnecting from it so that wouldn’t save me any labor
