wpa_supplicant seems to prefer 2.4GHz over 5GHz

John Frankish john.frankish at outlook.com
Wed Feb 15 01:08:23 PST 2017


> > ...
> > Does anybody know why wpa_supplicant seems to prefer 2.4GHz to 5GHz?
> > ...
> I didn't check the program logic of wpa_supplicant but I do find 5GHz unreliable compared to 2.4GHz
> particularly when my wife stands between the ap and station, so there is no reason to prefer 5GHz by default.
> 
> However, you can give the 5GHz ssid higher priority in wpa_supplicant.conf.
>
Ah - sorry, I should have said that both 2.4GHz and 5GHz channels have the same SSID.



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