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I've had mixed results depending on devices -- my Apple devices tend to hop between bands and APs quite excellently.

On the other end, I've got a Nintendo Switch which stubbornly sticks to the first AP / band (I'm running a few APs with the same SSID/PSK) combination it grabbed onto during network setup. Even if I move completely out of range of the AP/band it grabbed onto it'll refuse to acknowledge other APs/bands until you run network setup again.

Everything else I deal with tends to be much closer to the former than the latter, thankfully. I don't use non-standard stuff like UniFi band steering, as it is known to cause issues due to non-standard behaviour.

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Nintendo Switch wifi is the worst. Mine is places 2m next to the router and can only do around 25 mbits. All other devices I own do at least 200-500 mbits.

The entire Nintendo wifi/online experience is so poor.

Yeah, I only use it for downloading games.

I think the Switch is the wrong console if you want to play online. It's made for playing offline/mobile and playing with friends on split screen. And it's awesome for that.

I know but splatoon is so awesome. I really wish there was a PC version.

*Sound of Googling*

-> https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx-Games-List/issues/703

This happens to be the only way for some of us to play region-locked games like Tsukihime.

Agreed, I had to go wired to get any kind of decent connection, and then I'm behind CGNAT so I can't play Mario Kart 8 with it (for that game, I just use my phone as a hotspot and suffer).

Yeah, it takes its sweet time downloading large games. I get about 40mbps. On the upside, Switch games tend to be much smaller than their next-gen counterparts.

The key to a happy Switch life is a large micro sd card. Fortunately even 1tb are affordable now.

I just tested this. I only get a laughable 8-10mbps on my Switch. Haha. I don’t know why I thought it was so much faster.

Turning off Unifi Band steering was key to fixing my moonlight home streaming setup. That and disabling 2.4Ghz entirely for the network I use to stream on. Also manually picking the fastest channel by checking each one individually and testing it. Now I can stream 4k VR @ 72 hz no problem. Haven’t had to touch my router settings since doing this.

My situation is so many nearby unique Wi-Fi networks, >160 detectable by my router alone. Lends itself to interference issues if not done perfectly.

This is something a good Wi-Fi controller can solve. It brutally disconnects the misbehaving device to force him to switch. There is unfortunately a lot of such devices which are very poor at hopping and hence this is a common workaround in many WiFi products, you don't even need to get something enterprise grade.

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