On 2018/04/30 10:55, Stefan Sperling wrote: > The AP sends 5GHz beacons with a ridicously low RSSI while no client > is connected, and OpenBSD prefers the 2GHz band...
Surely it has to be the receiver that is adding the RSSI infornation? The AP can't know. Seems it would either have to be the client side measuring incorrectly, or the AP is really sending beacons at low power. If the latter, that _could_ be a mechanism to reduce power consumption in idle mode... Let them connect at 2GHz then whack up the power and steer them towards 5GHz after association...</wild speculation> Anyway it would be interesting to see how a spectrum analyser looks with this access point :) On 2018/04/30 11:08, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Derp. A dBm value of -10 would of course be better than -60. > > Whatever the numbers shown by tcpdump really mean, the probe response's > one is better!!! Better as in "more accurate". But as the reported value is ridiculously high rather than too low, why wasn't 5GHz selected anyway? > (We really should make processing of RSSI values consistent across the > entire the system...) ack.
