wpa_supplicant seems to prefer 2.4GHz over 5GHz

John Frankish john.frankish at outlook.com
Wed Feb 15 03:08:16 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.
> > >
> Any chance you can share the wpa_supplicant logs?
> 
Shared at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175401




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