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iPad Pro wifi dropping out on Orbi
I have an Orbi with the Satellite amazon echo. Over the past 6 months or so we've noticed a common behaviour with the iPads and sometimes iPhones in the house. It's a standard 4 bedroom home, sin...
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I've seen other similar posts and the resolution appears to be related to advanced wifi settings and turning on/off beamforming and changing the preamble mode to long.
I have tried the above and variations on the above, but still no change in behaviour.
What version of Apple iOS are you running on your iPads and iPhones? The latest version of iOS (14.1) has some quirks regarding WiFi connectivity. Be certain you've selected the proper configutation in iOS for your ORBI WiFi.
Another ORBI "Advanced" setting to try is to turn off "Enable Fast Roaming". That worked in my scenario. Good Luck!
tucsontico wrote:Be certain you've selected the proper configutation in iOS for your ORBI WiFi.
Can you elaborate on what I would do in iOS for this, please?
tucsontico wrote:Another ORBI "Advanced" setting to try is to turn off "Enable Fast Roaming". That worked in my scenario. Good Luck!
Enable fast roaming has been off as long as I can remember.
Thanks for your suggestions.
