Re: 5GHz vs 2GHz APs

2016-08-16 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:31:07AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2016/08/15 14:46, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > The wireless stack usually runs its scanning loop once per frequency band. > > It begins with 5GHz so that APs on this band are preferred. Within a band, > > an AP with the best RSSI

Re: 5GHz vs 2GHz APs

2016-08-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016/08/15 14:46, Stefan Sperling wrote: > The wireless stack usually runs its scanning loop once per frequency band. > It begins with 5GHz so that APs on this band are preferred. Within a band, > an AP with the best RSSI (receive signal strength indicator) is chosen, > after matching all other

5GHz vs 2GHz APs

2016-08-15 Thread Stefan Sperling
The wireless stack usually runs its scanning loop once per frequency band. It begins with 5GHz so that APs on this band are preferred. Within a band, an AP with the best RSSI (receive signal strength indicator) is chosen, after matching all other desired parameters such as the ESSID etc. I am not