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Your router needs to support 802.11k for devices to reliably switch between wifi networks using the same SSID.

This is normally a feature offered by enterprise or pro-consumer equipment.



Works fine without K or R, but then the client has to do more work and lots of client devices have bad software on them. On top of that, while K and R can help, even then it needs to work with the client to have all the benefits.


openwrt offers this. Another reason to install it whenever you can!


Let's not forget that the client (phone, tablet...) also must support 802.11k for it to work.




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