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Mar 15, 2015 | 12:32 pm
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expert7700
Southwest's wifi is likely sending 'deauth' packets to devices with poor link speeds. The reason for implementing is that one weaker connection can consume a huge portion of the wifi control channel which has fixed limitatiins.
I fly 8x a month and first started seeing this happen late last month.
To help improve connections see if your device has the option to force 5ghz-only radio (instead of the more congested 2.4ghz). Also if there is a WiFi power saving option turn it OFF
Good info there.
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