To WiFi users.
Do you reduce your router’s WiFi Transmit Power to the bare minimum as required by you?
- Do you just keep it at the default 100%
- Did you not know you could reduce it (until now)
- Are you not able to control “your” WiFi router because it’s the ISP provided router and they didn’t give you the password?
- Do you actually require the 100% !?
The companies deserve all the flak they get in this case. They know it is congested because they are the ones who did it, but don’t care to think about it.
The least they could do is to let the user change the settings, but “oooh nooo PICNIC!”
Ideally they should use a WiFi analyser while setting up the device and if there are too many APs of their own company, send a report to their nearby office so that it can be rectified.
Enterprise APs can use their radios to see what channels are full, and make adjustments automatically.
There’s no good reason att couldn’t do this, especially when they have a micro monopoly in a building. It’s just greed and incompetence.
They don’t care. Is that a good enough reason for you (because it is for them)?