User owned smartphones and tablets in my organization are quite frequently connected to neighbor SSID which is being serviced by other company and its authentication method is open system.
To explain detail:
- user set their device to connect to company SSID(‘SNS’, WPA2-Enterprise/AES) and then it works fine while they are using it
- later on when they want to use again, which wakes up from power saving mode, they see their device connects to other SSID(‘OllehWiFi’, Open System) not company SSID
- so user needs to make their device connected to company SSID again, but this makes user unhappy because they don’t want to do this all the time whenever it happens
- however laptop users never experience this, this only happens to BYOD
How come this is happening? Feels like mobile devices prefer to connect to ‘Open System’ rather than connecting ‘recent connected SSID’ when it make association waking up from power saving mode(Both SSID signal strength are almost at the same level, from -50 to -60 RSSI) Is there any way to avoid this from happening?
Any assistance will be much appreciated.