AP selection.

Dan Williams dcbw
Mon Jan 29 12:30:39 PST 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:53 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:29 -0500, clockwork at sigsys.org wrote:
> > So at work we have a b and g AP's. The A AP is the one that
> > wpa_supplicant is picking, problem is that the AP that gets selected
> > is not as close as the G AP, and I dont get anywhere near as good
> > speeds on the A AP as I used to on the G AP. Is there someway to tell
> > wpa_supplicant to "go here first" or anything along those lines ? Is
> > there a way to blacklist an AP ? 
> 
> Explicitly specify the BSSID of the AP you'd like to connect to.

And if you want, have a few different network blocks, one for each
specific BSSID you'd want to connect to (even if they have the same
SSID), and give each on a different priority based on how you want to
connect to them.

Dan






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