Raising DEFAULT_BSS_MAX_COUNT

Mitchell Augustin mitchell.augustin at canonical.com
Thu Jul 17 09:55:24 PDT 2025


Hello,

It is not uncommon now for very dense areas to have more than 200
access points. With the DEFAULT_BSS_MAX_COUNT set to 200, we have
observed that some devices in such areas can fail to detect even the
nearest APs reliably. This seems to be resolved when the value is
sufficiently high to list all APs in range.

Has there been any discussion about raising this default value in
wpa_supplicant, given the increasing prevalence of AP-dense areas?

Thanks,
-- 
Mitchell Augustin
Software Engineer - Ubuntu Partner Engineering



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