I am worried that there is not really a benefit of doing that, just more noise and energy consumption.

    • Encrypt-Keeper
      link
      English
      510 months ago

      Yeah depending on your WI-FI device, it might even have tools to steer devices onto specific bands. But without that, the end user devices do a semi decent job. It’s basically so that if you’re connected to 5ghz with good signal, and walk to a different part of your house it can just switch over to 2.4ghz.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      210 months ago

      The big key is your hardware needs to support it. Back when “unified SSIDs” became a thing, some older 802.11n (WiFi 4) and ac (WiFi 5) devices could do it, but it was…. Weird.

      If you have a newer router, especially WiFi 6 or 802.11ax it should be be to do the unified SSID.