On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 10:58 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Generally, iwm tends to prefer 5 GHz for me in most locations, > but > there are heuristics involved in selecting the band. You could > try > tweaking these values in ieee80211_var.h to see if it you can > manage > to tip iwm over into the 5 GHz band: > > #define IEEE80211_RSSI_THRES_2GHZ (-60) /* in > dBm */ > #define IEEE80211_RSSI_THRES_5GHZ (-70) /* in > dBm */ > #define IEEE80211_RSSI_THRES_RATIO_2GHZ 60 /* in > percent */ > #define IEEE80211_RSSI_THRES_RATIO_5GHZ 50 /* in > percent */ > > The current values are based on highly scientific and ruthlessly > thorough trials which I conducted at my flat ;-)
OK that's worth a try. What do these settings mean? Also, I just realized I could set the channel manually with the 'chan' option to ifconfig(8). I set it to the 5 GHz channel of my network and I didn't notice an improvement. Maybe it didn't really switch channels? Thanks for your help! --Aaron
