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by qrv3w 3717 days ago
This is a great question.

A typical apartment or business has 10s to 100s of routers nowadays that your smartphone can "see" when it scans. Thus, the movement of a single router never really hinders the signal that much.

Still, I might try to add some bootstrapping to the software so that tracking locations can be used to "relearn" places to later test if the routers have been moving around.

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Thank you for releasing this, this is a really valuable reference for a project I'm working on.

I've certainly seen urban areas with hundreds of routers around, but where I am it is more like 5.

Your welcome, glad it will help someone.

Certainly give it a try, I've heard that it works pretty well for ~5 routers for a couple of rooms in an apartment.