Help WiFi weirdness

[MachDelta]

So, while i've been pretty happy with my Gnex so far there's still one place that it's been giving me issues, and that's connecting to the Wifi at university. Generally speaking, when I arrive at school the first time I pull out the phone it automatically connects fairly quickly. But when I move from one building to another (or even across a building) and the phone is supposed to be jumping APs, it's like it gets stuck trying to look for the first AP it connected to and refuses to hop. And the display is strange too - if i'm not connected it will generally show a good-excellent connection available, but the second I hit 'connect' it drops to poor. (Again, maybe it's looking for the first AP it saw?) Lastly, today I noticed this little discrepancy... the connection strength in the notification bar is different from the connection strength in the menu. And it wasn't a fluctuation - I stared at it for a good minute.

So... what gives?

 

[Lohung]

are you using anything that manages your data connectivity like Juice Defender.. That will cause a delay because it will search for wifi, then switch to 4g then back to wifi if it cannot find an immediate connection on either. if you are using something like JD, in JD you can train it to go to certain wifi connection automatically.


also..

if your in one building, and you walk to another i am assuming that is a totally different wifi unless they are all connected. If they are different your GNex will try to auto reconnect to the one it was last on for a period of time if it senses wifi i again i believe.

 

[MachDelta]

Nope, I'm not using juice defender or anything similar. My nex auto connects at home though.

Also, most of the buildings on campus are connected via catwalk (it's a smaller downtown campus, not your typical university setup) and so the primary network is essentially contiguous. I can walk around with my laptop open and generally not drop of the network unless I stray from the main path. The phone doesn't seem to like that though. I might have to play with it some more.