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Dropouts & strange wifi icon after switch to orbi
Hi, The other day I switched over to a new Netgear Orbi Mesh system with a RBR850 router and RBS850 Satellites running firmware V4.6.3.16_2.0.51 All seems ok for all my devices except for the wo...
The WiFi symbol with a 'x' on it is not unique to Lenovo. Apparently it indicates there has been "a change" since the last time the laptop connected to this particular WiFi system, probably a different password.
https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/wifi-network-has-x-next-to-it.489938/
This article recommends 'forgetting' this WiFi network and connecting to it again.
There is no obvious reason why a device would lose WiFi after five minutes.
I would attempt to replicate the experience with other WiFi networks. (friend? neighbor? work?. What about a smartphone Hot Spot?)
Would also 'forget' both the primary and guest networks, select the primary network and mark it to 'connect automatically.'
Geez. What a pain!
CrimpOn wrote:The WiFi symbol with a 'x' on it is not unique to Lenovo. Apparently it indicates there has been "a change" since the last time the laptop connected to this particular WiFi system, probably a different password.
https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/wifi-network-has-x-next-to-it.489938/
This article recommends 'forgetting' this WiFi network and connecting to it again.
I think this solves the issue. For what it's worth I previously had muliple SSID's on different VLANs (Meraki setup). The BJC_Guest SSID was an old SSID that the majority of my devices connnected to. I tried to be cleaver/lazy and resuse the same SSID/password in the hopes all my wifes devices and IoT stuff would just auto connect.
After "forgetting" and reconnecting the drop-out issues appears to have resolved itself.
I'll keep monitoring for a bit but appears to be all godo now :-)
Thanks for your help