On 12 April 2017 at 11:01, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
Isn't that something wrong with the phone? I've never noticed anything (laptop, tablet, phone) 'hunting' between the two routers. The only problem we have is that when you walk from one side of the house to the other the tablet/phone/laptop stays connected to the WiFi it started with.
Well it seems to be common to whatever device I pick, but maybe I'm just unlucky. I suspect having a lot of "competing" wifi in the area doesn't help though.
On-site yesterday my phone was generally much better at picking up a reliable wifi signal than anything I was there to configure... (Equally: as soon as I enabled the hotspot on my phone everything I was working with was able to connect to that and get online without problem. The devices were Pi 3's, with or without external antennae, very often within a couple of feet of the Draytek AP-910C access point they were supposed to be connecting to. Generally they would connect easily but timeout after multiple retries trying to get a DHCP lease.)