Post by @jimsalter@fosstodon.org

2026-08-18 17:23 UTC

I know everybody loves their super "fancy" iDevices and looks down on Android... But at least the android users don't have to manually disco and reconnect their Wi-Fi to get it to roam. Out of almost 1,000 connected devices at this site, only fourteen have "fair" or "poor" connectivity. Every last one of them is an iPad, iPhone, or Apple Watch. (The apparently unidentified devices you see here are iPhones with MAC randomization enabled.)

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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org 2026-08-18 17:28

Each and every one of those is an Apple Mobile device which refused to disassociate from one AP and associate with another, closer AP when its user walked from one room to another. TX is low on all APs. All APs have a very robust minRSSI set. iDevices are the *only* devices I've ever seen refusing to roam like this. Everything else on site, from IoT garbage through Android phones to laptops and more, roams freely and easily as their users do.

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@ajn142@infosec.exchange 2026-08-18 19:11

@jimsalter@fosstodon.org silly question, does fair/poor correlate to a specific latency, transmit speed, something else? I can’t say I’ve ever noticed this issue in my home setup (two APs, mostly Macs and iPhones) which makes me wonder whether they’re experiencing degraded performance, or just below the standard tplink considers optimal

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