How to connect WiFi to a specific AP?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 08:39:59 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>Further down on the General tab there is another setting named "Control channel"
>which is set to 8, is this the one you advice should be set to Auto?
>
>Then there is a different WiFi tab named "Professional" where there are lots of
>items, but I don't see anything there related to your suggestions...
>

>Still the trouble device keeps reconnecting to the far away router with -95 dBm
>strength rather than to the close by AP with around -70 dBm strength...
>It does this at about a minute's interval according to the MQTT logs.
>
>If I was there I would try power cycling it but unfortunately I don't have that
>option remotely. It is a 190 km round trip to drive home and back. :(

Now I found a WiFi setting on the ASUS RT-AX86U PRO router where one can set up
a MAC "filter" to reject devices with certain MAC addresses.

I enabled the filter and set it to reject and added the device's MAC address to
the list.

Then I "Applied" the changes and hoped for it to solve the problem.

But unfortunately the device keeps on losing connection and reconnecting every
minute or so and it is accepted so it can send packets to my MQTT broker where I
see the activity....

So that unfortunately did not work either.
Operates at -96 dBm signal level (just barely working)


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden