wpa_supplicant seems to prefer 2.4GHz over 5GHz

Peer, Ilan ilan.peer at intel.com
Wed Feb 15 01:16:49 PST 2017


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hostap [mailto:hostap-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of
> John Frankish
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 11:08
> To: hostap at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: Grumbach, Emmanuel <emmanuel.grumbach at intel.com>; Guan Xin
> <guanx.bac at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: wpa_supplicant seems to prefer 2.4GHz over 5GHz
> 
> > > ...
> > > 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.
> >

Any chance you can share the wpa_supplicant logs?

Regards,

Ilan.



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