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by uyzstvqs 244 days ago
You can already make a MAP network, and any modern client will automatically hop between APs pretty fast, based on which one has the strongest signal. There's a common misconception that devices will cling to one AP while better ones are available, which hasn't been true in many years now from my experience.

Infrastructure side handovers are great for load balancing though, for enterprise networks with very high client density.

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> based on which one has the strongest signal.

That's not what you want to have in an enterprise environment.

A roaming decision must be based on the signal level readings from both sides from the infrastructure side.

Everything else is gambling.

In fact, I don’t even want it at my house.

I have a lot of low bandwidth devices that love to connect to a router further away and congest it. Makes the devices I actually care around run much slower.

The only solution is restarting my network one-by-one so they have a better chance of getting the right device.

In my experience Apple clients have been incredibly clingy to 6ghz bands, while much better 5ghz was available.