How to priorize/set default Wifi connection?

[pstein]

Assume I can (from my smartphone with Android 7) connect to 2 different WiFi-routers.

I prefer exactly one of them. The other one should only be selected when the first one is down.

So when I connect to my favorite WiFi then leave the office and return back later Android switched automatically to the other, second level WiFi connection.

This is annoying.

In old Android v6 there was (as far as I remember) an Advanced settings pane where I can setup a WiFi priority.

This options seems to be gone in Android 7.

So when I read in Internet about setting up a default Wifi connection in Android 7 then I found only an App:WiFi Prioritizer:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.za.flash.wifiprioritizer&hl=en

and a recommendation about fiddling around in a text config file:

/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf

Are these really the only ways to setup a default Wifi resp priority?

That would be disappointing.

Thank you
Peter

 

[A bochur]

I'm not sure about prioritizing one over the other but, see if turning 'smart network switch' on does the trick. Cuz what is supposed to do is, switch to the strongest network.

Smart network switch setting can be found in setting > WiFi
In case both are the same strength, then this won't help you

 

[pstein]

On Android v7 there is no such Setting "Smart Network Switch"

 

[A bochur]

I guess it's a Samsung only thing. You can always 'forget' the network that you don't like using. I mean how often does the one you like, go down