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Disabling WMM Disables N? FW V2.2.1.210
While turning off WMM for both 2.4 and 5GHz in Advanced Setup -> WiFi Settings to see if my LIFX bulbs will stop randomly dropping the network, I noticed with WMM off my late 2011 MacBook Pro saw all...
Have you had any luck with your LIFX bulbs? I have a couple that keep dropping off the network and need to be re-setup probably weekly. The rest work fine but it's always these two, and I've even moved the bulbs around to where other ones are plugged in, but sure enough they keep dropping, so I don't think it's the pysical location of them (they're central anyway and have a strong signal).
Just curious because it's a bit of a pain and I never had these issues when I use my Amplifi setup instead of Orbi.
Review this to see if anything helps?
dkleinknecht wrote:
Have you had any luck with your LIFX bulbs? I have a couple that keep dropping off the network and need to be re-setup probably weekly. The rest work fine but it's always these two, and I've even moved the bulbs around to where other ones are plugged in, but sure enough they keep dropping, so I don't think it's the pysical location of them (they're central anyway and have a strong signal).
Just curious because it's a bit of a pain and I never had these issues when I use my Amplifi setup instead of Orbi.
Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately this doesn't seem like it will help. My issue is that I'll have all my bulbs connected and working fine, but then seemingly out of nowhere a couple of them will just drop from the LIFX app and will need to be reconfigured for my wireless network. So I'll go through the process of reconfiguring them and they'll show up again for a bit, but then again out of nowhere they'll drop again and I'll need to reconfigure them.
The thread you linked me to seems to be if I couldn't get them to connect at all, which isn't my problem. Thanks though!
My LIFX lights still drop the wifi connction randomly (every month or so,) forcing me to unplug the lamp and plug back in making the light search and join the wifi again. If WMM worked better with Orbi, I wouldn't mind keeping WMM off, but as my initial post shows you lose AC and N wireless (!)
Disabling WMM was listed as a solution by LIFX for lightbulbs and other IoT devices losing connection: https://support.lifx.com/hc/en-us/articles/213188743-Troubleshooting-setup
