Easy WiFi Switcher?

[MarcOfSF]

Hello,
I have a long house with a wireless router on one end "MyWifi" and then a Power Network Adapter which runs to a Access Point on the other end of the house "MyWifi_5GEXT", nothing special here.

The current signal does not drop when I walk from one end to another, just gets weak so I have to manually switch (Unlock phone, go to settings, go to wifi, select other router). Kinda a hassle for as many times a day as I have to do this. Is there no button/app i can install that I can push on my phone to get it to switch?

New scenario goal would be walk to other end, unlock phone, push new button, voila!

Thanks all !

 

[svim]

Try re-configuring both your router and Power Network Adapter (assuming that you're referring to a 'Powerline' adapter) to use the same SSID and password, but be sure to manually set both to use different channels (i.e. if 2.4GHz set one on channel 1 and the other on channel 11, or if 5GHz set one on 44 and the other on 100). As long as that Powerline adapter is set up as just an access point, your router should be the only gateway in your home network, so set up this way it should be a matter where you can walk from the front to the back of your home and your phone should just switch from one to the other on its own without any interaction from you. Currently it sounds like your phone is just trying to maintain a connection to the network it's connected to until you manually change it connect to the other one.

On a side note, you refer to your second SSID as MyWifi_5GEXT. If that pertains to using a 5GHz band network, just keep in mind that while a 5GHz supports faster bandwidth, a 2.4GHz band network has better coverage range. So there's always a trade-off, more distance vs faster connectivity. You need to weigh just what kind of content you're dealing with (i.e. you watch a lot of 4K video) and just how much distance is involved (50 feet? 150 feet?), and pick the band that's the most appropriate. Also, is it pretty much line-of-sight between your router and Powerline adapter or are there a lot of obstacles and/or walls in between them? That will also have an effect on getting good overlapping WiFi coverage between the two.