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kai00051
Jan 25, 2019Aspirant
Spectrum Mobile - S9+ wifi seeing network twice
My family has 2 ipads, 2 kindles, 2 S7's, 2 Nest Cams, Chamberlain garage door, 1 Roku TV and a Chromecast device - NONE of which have problems with my Orbi mesh network.
I just got an S9+ throug...
ekhalil
Jan 25, 2019Master
kai00051 wrote:
........... The 2.4 and 5 are named the same (by design) and the phone just bounces back and forth all day long between the 2.4 to 5, and in the meanwhile uses data when struggling with wifi.
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How do you know that the networks are one for the 2.4 and the other for the 5 GHz bands? I'd rather think it's one from the router and another from the satellite, isn't it?
I would think that the phone is seeing the two networks strong which can happen if your nodes are close to each other and keeps roaming between them.
Do you have "Fast Roaming" enabled? New phones should support fast roaming 802.11r