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Help S3 Doesn't Change from wifi spot with low signal to one with good quality

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flakrat

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Howdy, I've done some searching on this, but can't come up with good search terms to get any results.

We have a primary Wifi router in the house and a secondary wifi repeater in another building.

When the phone first connects to wifi, it will choose the one with the best signal. As expected. However, if I walk away from that access point and towards the other, the galaxy won't join the other access point until the other is completely out of range.

Expected result would be, once the current access point signal drops far enough below another known access point, it should switch to the better signal.

It doesn't do this. We also have multiple access points at work and it does the same thing.

Anyone else experience this / know any way to fix it?
 
yup
same here, I dont think I had any device that works the way you and I would think it should, at least not consumer device.
 
I'll try again with my Nexus 7 and Droid Razr . I thought they did that, but I may be mistaken.

I'll report back after I test.
 
Yup, you are correct. I just looked at my Razr, and it is happily connected to the repeater with 20% signal, while the main access point has a nice 100% signal.

Seems like it would be a simple calculation for the wifi logic.

Oh well, disregard :-)
 
Yes, I have the same behavior. I can force a switch by turning WiFi off then back on.

flakrat said:
Howdy, I've done some searching on this, but can't come up with good search terms to get any results.

We have a primary Wifi router in the house and a secondary wifi repeater in another building.

When the phone first connects to wifi, it will choose the one with the best signal. As expected. However, if I walk away from that access point and towards the other, the galaxy won't join the other access point until the other is completely out of range.

Expected result would be, once the current access point signal drops far enough below another known access point, it should switch to the better signal.

It doesn't do this. We also have multiple access points at work and it does the same thing.

Anyone else experience this / know any way to fix it?
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