Hello,

so I have a Wifi-6 Network at home.

It consists of a router and a repeater in the first floor.

When I use my SteamDeck it almost always connects to the repeater, even if stand right next to the Router.

This Screenshot was taken when I was next to the router and the repeater was a floor above me.

Is there a way in KDE Plasma to set Priorties for the Network “Acces Points”?

  • overkill373@alien.top
    BEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    cant you set the repeater with a different name/SSID? thats what I do at my house

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    I have my router with WIFI and then the repeater with WIFI-Repeater. then in the steamdeck you simply choose which one to connect to in the wifi settings

    • Anon0588@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That would be the last option. It goes a bit againt the whole Idea of the “mesh” function of my network. And all other devices work as expected. Meaning they choose the closest access point.

  • NoAirBanding@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    My Deck was sitting right under my router and only connected to the 5ghz band. I had to give the 6ghz band its own SSID before it would even connect. After I did that, nothing the Deck did with transfers or downloads was improved with the better connection.

    I’m thinking the networking in Deck (or Linux?) is just a bit shit.