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by kotaKat 168 days ago
That's why it's been normalized to buy five of those mesh WiFi routers and shove them all over your house, everybody's signal be damned.
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avidiax 168 days ago
Having lots of lower powered routers is actually better for interference.

MacOS won't roam properly unless the signal from the connected AP drops below -75db, so cranking the power on all your APs will give you worse performance if you move around.

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lxgr 167 days ago
That's only on non-steered roaming though, right? I believe Apple devices have long supported AP/network-side steering.
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lxgr 167 days ago
Since most devices these days only transmit as strongly as they need to, this is actually great for spectrum sharing.
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