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A few changes for WiFiSTA performance #6020

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@YordanYanakiev

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@YordanYanakiev

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WiFi

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ESP32/ESP8266

Is your feature request related to a problem?

One of the root of the performance issues related to the Wifi.

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In WiFiSTA.cpp the user "mlord" ( Mark Lord ) ( https://github.com/mlord ) discovered that the performance issues is related with incoherent with the normal setup initialization in the AUTHMODE.

    if(password != NULL && password[0] != 0){
               wifi_config->sta.threshold.authmode = WIFI_AUTH_WEP;  
                _wifi_strncpy((char*)wifi_config->sta.password, password, 64);

this is incoherent with the nowdays most used WPS2 PSK, and therefore it should be :

    if(password != NULL && password[0] != 0){
               wifi_config->sta.threshold.authmode = WIFI_AUTH_WPA2_PSK;  
                _wifi_strncpy((char*)wifi_config->sta.password, password, 64);

aside of that the current scan overdo it with Scanning all chaneles:

wifi_config->sta.scan_method = WIFI_ALL_CHANNEL_SCAN;

and it should be the fast scan:

wifi_config->sta.scan_method = WIFI_FAST_SCAN;  

these changes drop significally the time for connection from 3 to 17 seconds on some setups down to almost instantly
( the problem discussed in here : #2501 (comment) )

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