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The settings aren't the world's greatest but they are pretty good starts! https://github.com/berlin-open-wireless-lab/DAWN https://openwrt.org/docs/guide", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)"}, {"id": 733023056, "item_id": 45813941, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813941", "by": "ishanjain28", "date": "2025-11-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You need usteer in these situations.", "excerpt": "See 1. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9181 2. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9071 802.11k/v works well enough but the problem is when you are roaming the device is likely to see 2.4ghz network before it sees 5ghz network. Unless the manufacturers considered this scenario, the device will connect to 2.4ghz and remain connected to that instead of upgrading to higher bands. 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DTIM was always 3, if you'd bothered to read the original post - https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/09/14/1630 I do know what Apple devices \"like\" (it's kind of my thing, hence the domain name).", "context": "", "use_case": "Wi-Fi roaming daemon", "switched_from": "", "story": "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"}, {"id": 772961073, "item_id": 48310067, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310067", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-05-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "uSteer is a little newer & is an official openwrt project.", "excerpt": "I'd used DAWN for band steering/roaming at my last place, which worked ok. uSteer is a little newer & is an official openwrt project. https://github.com/berlin-open-wireless-lab/DAWN https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/dawn DAWN has a wild amount of knobs to tune, which aren't super well described. I haven't been running it since a single AP covers my current place very well. 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