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Wifi Roaming not efficient on Android devices
Hi Yann_ROLAND ,
For this exact reason, Samsung created an API to change the roaming settings on their devices. This is something than can only be done via the Knox Service plugin and compatible MDM.
I'm not aware of other brands being able to adjust this setting, I know Ascom has some tweaks build in their firmware but not sure what they adjusted.
Some customers changed roaming settings on their access point (Cisco is able to do this, among others). But have mixed results, therefore I prefer to adjust this setting on device level.
Hi Michel ,
I had a call with Samsung and found interesting infos on the web about these parameters. As we also use KSP, we should be able to set them. My problem is that I have devices in nearly 80 sites WW, some are offices, some factories, others are warehouses so there is not only one kind of implementation for the WIFI. Thus, I'm affraid those parameters could improve things somewhere and break them somewhere else. I understand that we are talking about a very complex thing here. We start to use private 5G, I'm asking myself if this could not solve the issue sometimes.
I'll continue investigating on this, if you have kind of "magic" values to put in the samsung parameters, I'm interested 🙂
Hi Yann_ROLAND , changing those parameters makes devices room quicker, not sticking with their access point for too long. So it should not have a big impact, unless wifi coverage is an issue on some locations ofcourse. I've never had them break something, it either fixes your issues or it does not fix them, but I haven't had issues where i needed to perform a roll back.
But I can imagine that you might not want to risk a change on the other side of the world 🙂
For VoIP, recommended settings are:
Trigger is -70
Delta 6
period 5 seconds
This should give you a good starting point.
Good luck!
