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I am worried that there is not really a benefit of doing that, just more noise and energy consumption.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that I understand the "more noise and energy consumption" part, since we're still talking about the same router with the same connected devices.

But I do have multiple SSIDs on my router. One is explicitly for IoT devices, and they don't have network access, so they are isolated from my computers, NAS, etc.

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The more SSIDs being broadcast the more airtime is wastes on broadcasting them. SSIDs are also broadcast at a much lower speed so even though it’s a trivial amount of data, it takes longer to send. You ideally want as few SSIDs a possible but sometimes it’s unavoidable, like if you have an open guest network, or multiple authentication types used for different SSIDs.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Is there a measurable, real-world effect? Because if so, I don't see it, and I can max out my router's bandwidth pretty easily without noticing any slowdowns (this is with 30+ devices across three different SSIDs).