Windows 10: Roaming Aggression unavailable on Surface 5 and 6?

Hello,


I support about 325 Surface Pro's for retail salespersons across 10 locations. Our wireless in a retail setting can be a bit challenging as our sales staff move around retail floors and we find that as they travel away from an access point and pass another, they are not being handed off to that AP. The sales staff are using Surface 5's and 6's.. I followed Microsoft's advice from their page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/surface-wireless-connect but those options are not available on our Surface 5's and 6's for adjusting Roaming agression on the wireless card.


However, I find it available on a test Surface X that we're evaluating. Is there a workaround for the Surface 5's and 6's or, even better yet, an effective solution. When I adjusted the Surface X to Medium High, I had no handoff issues whatsoever across a 180k SqFt retail space.

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Roaming aggressiveness doesn't change anything

Hello _gjg,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Roaming aggressiveness is the rate at which your device selects and switches to the nearest available point of access, offering a better signal. The Sensitivity depends on the signal strength and quality, not on the distance to the Wi-Fi point.

In this scenario, you might want to reset roaming aggressiveness to check if it works out for you. To do reset, you will have to run a PowerShell command.


To check the existing value of Roaming Aggressiveness run the below command from an Administrative PowerShell Command prompt.

• Right click on the Start menu and select
  Windows PowerShell (Admin) and type the command as : Get-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty –Name “Wi-Fi”
  
• Make sure to change the Wi-Fi string to what your adapter is called.
  

To set Roaming Aggressiveness, execute the following commands from Administrative PowerShell Commands.

• Set-NetAdapteradvancedProperty -Name “Wi-Fi” -DisplayName “Roaming Aggressiveness” –DisplayValue “1. Lowest”
  
  
• Set-NetAdapteradvancedProperty -Name “Wi-Fi” -DisplayName “Roaming Aggressiveness” –DisplayValue “5. Highest”
  

Hope it helps.

Mala S

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Change Roaming Aggressiveness on Windows 8 Phone

Hi,

Thanks for your answer Karolina, I apprecaite it

I was, however, asking if it's possible to alter the roaming aggressiveness on the Windows 8 phone.

Thanks, Tim

 

Change Roaming Aggressiveness on Windows 8 Phone

Hi,

My friend has a Windows 8 Nokia phone (Nokia 532 I think) in Student Accommodation that is between two Access Points.

The device is roaming between the two access points that are broadcasting the same SSID.

This causes an intermittent connection, sometimes causing a self assigned IPv4 Address.

I was wondering if there was any way to lower the roaming aggressiveness on this device, and if so, how to do it.

Thanks for any help.