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Beam Forming & iOS issues - likely bug
Yesterday I updated the Firmware to 1.4.0.34 and turned on Beam Forming. After that I was unable to backup any of our iOS devices vis WiFi. Rebooted the world without any affect. Turned off Beamfo...
I believe it's been noted is that setting for Implicit Beamforming is for legacy devices/standards, and normally not needed. Explicit Beamforming is built into the 802.11ac standard and on by default. Consensus seems to be to just leave it off unless you have a unique situation that requires it.
Mark thank you for your comments on Implicit Beamforming. I really know nothing about it. I just noted that when I when from on AirPort Extreme to a TimeCapsule with Beamforming in 2013, the change was huge. So when I discovered it was not turned on, I decided to give it a try.
I really did not see any significant change, but I was only using seat of the pants observations. I did some some improvement with the multiple Orbi units before I tried the Beamforming.
My specific setup may be a factor. We have default backups of iOS to iCloud. The backups that were failing, were manually activated requested WiFi backups to iTunes. i.e. open iTunes and click on "Back Up Now" button. After syncing and apparently making the backup a gray triangle appears next to the iOS device in the sidebar saying something about a reconnection or connection -
Not really important now, it may be in the future.