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Variable iPhone speed performance

When I am checking speed performance on my iPhone throughout my house I usually need to turn wifi off and then on to get the best performance. Why isn't this a more seamless process?

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    • cMoo92
    • 6 yrs ago
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    This is most likely due to your iPhone staying connected to an eero that gets farther away as you walk to a different part of your house. eero can’t make your iPhone switch to the closest eero—that’s entirely up to the iPhone software to choose when to switch. You could be standing right next to another eero and the iPhone might not switch if it thinks it still has a good enough connection to the eero farther away. The reason turning on/off WiFi on your iPhone is that your phone will then connect to the closest eero with the stronger connection.

    • clarone
    • 6 yrs ago
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    Thanks very much for your reply.  I figured that was it. It's not that big a deal but I'm wondering if Apple will ever configure its software so that I can choose to have the iPhone pick the strongest connection automatically. 

    • pinthea
    • 6 yrs ago
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    I think I get why Apple does that - if they're not careful, your iPhone would be constantly switching from eero to eero when, for example, some environmental factor (interference, whatever) suddenly changes the signal strengths. 

    From what I have read, you have to have a really terrible connection (less than -80dBm signal to noise ratio, which means you have just "Minimum signal strength for basic connectivity. Packet delivery may be unreliable.") for your iPhone to decide it needs to go find a stronger connection.  That seems to be a really poor connection threshhold, maybe they went a bit too conservative with that number?

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