One thing that I’ve noticed is that is that if I’m testing a dual band site and my machine loses connectivity to the 5 GHz band and re-establishes via 2.4 GHz, the machine will never attempt to re-establish a connection via 5 GHz. I currently have a survey that has half its iperf3 numbers reported for 5 Ghz and half for 2.4 GHz; I’d really like to be able to show just how bad the 5 GHz performance is with the iperf3 results, but by the time I noticed that I was no longer on 5 Ghz, I had done half an hour of data collection.
With that in mind, a couple of feature suggestions:
1. Is it possible to force NetSpot to gather data via both frequency bands? This would be particularly useful when a site is using “SSID Name” for both the 2.4 GHz band and the 5 GHz band. It would be nice to show both sets of numbers for all sample points. Naturally, this would extend survey times, as each sample point would have to be run twice.
2. Alternatively, it would be nice to force a single band for testing.
3. If #1 isn’t possible, could NetSpot (optionally) force the testing machine to disassociate from the SSID and re-associate at each sample point?
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