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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Wifi status indicator
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 10:21:20 +0100
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On 01/07/2024 19:59, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>   during a scan
> wavemon consistently reports my access point as the strongest
> signal. Is "strongest signal" not sufficient by itself?

No.

WiFi smears itself over a wide spectrum and all other wifis appear as 
'in band noise' to a greater or lesser extent.

Since data packets are I think cryptographically signed and checksummed, 
the chances of a given packet getting corrupted and needing a retransmit 
goes up as the number of adjacent stations does.

Similar to mobile cells.

-- 
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy