Re: on switching back and forth between access points

On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:06:20 -0300, Anton Antimo wrote:

> Is this really usual? This is small cafeteria---some 25 square
> meters---and it switches me from access point dc:2c:6e:c4:1e:a9 to
> dc:2c:6e:c4:1e:a8 every now and then. I also began to see these
> missed-beacon messages, which I don't know what they mean. (Any
> explanation would be appreciated.)

Just my guess, but Linux daemons are known to be pretty chatty in
their log messages. Besides which, remember a lot of consumer
hardware, including wi-fi hardware, is expected to be sold pretty much
exclusively to Windows users. (“Linux? What’s that?”)

What this means is, the vendors who make this stuff often don’t do
proper standards-compliance testing, their attitude is “if it seems to
work OK with Windows, ship it”. So then the Linux developers find
shortcomings, and have to work around them in open-source drivers.

Combine the two facts, and you’re going to see lots of complaints in
your logs about issues that neither you nor the driver developers are
in a position to fix.

> [Aug11 11:27] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: missed beacons exceeds threshold, but receiving data. Stay connected, Expect bugs.

If you don’t notice any actual disruptions to network connections, I
would conclude that this is normal ;).