Will User Services Be Affected During Wi-Fi Access Point Switching?

Now the smart Wi-Fi is an essential thing for families, restaurants and shopping malls. But sometimes for various reasons, the Wi-Fi needs to switch to a new access point. In this case, will the user services be affected?

 

• For buffered services (such as video play), no obvious service interruption is sensitive to users during the switching.

• For services that are not buffered (such as web browsing), services will be interrupted transiently (varying based on the user devices and Wi-Fi environments) during switching and will be restored to normal after the switching is completed.

 

The following table lists the reference data of service interruption duration in various switching scenarios.

Switching Scenario	Service Interruption Duration
	IOS Device	Android Device	Windows Device
ONT to ETH/PLC AP	7s	10s	1s
ETH/PLC AP to ONT	5s	11s	1s
ONT to Repeater	8s	9s	8s
Repeater to ONT	12s	10s	2s
ETH/PLC AP to ETH/PLC AP	1–4s	10s	2s
Repeater to Repeater	4s	10s	4–8s

 

NOTE:

The actual Wi-Fi switching duration is strongly related to factors including the user terminal type, operating system type and version, and Wi-Fi chip driver. Interference sources in the actual environment also need to be considered. Therefore, the data in the preceding table servers only reference.

 

User terminal examples in the reference data are as follows:

IOS device: iPhone 6

Android device: HuaWei Mate 7

Windows device: Lenovo YoGa1

 

From the above article, we know that the buffered services will not receive much impact. However, unbuffered services will need to wait for the switching is completed. If any question, please feel free to contact: [email protected]