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What is the "SYNC_AP" SSID
This has been puzzling me for months. At first, I thought I was some WIFI IoT device that was in setup mode and I'd just forgotten about it. However, today, I had to move the channel of my main ...
Mikey94025 , you are spot on. Yes, I do have a BroadLink Smart Motion Sensor with Hub. When I unplugged it, the WIFI SSID went away. When I plugged it in, it came back.
Now, I just have to workout with Broadlink what this is and why its there.
The confusion was that the WIFI channel shifted when I changed my Orbi WIFI channel - thus making me think it was related to my Orbi system.
I had previously tried searching for the term "SYNC_AP" before, but no hits came up - the posting about it on the UAE Amazon web site must have been recent.
Thanks again Mikey94025 !
Here are the two graphics....
Which WiFi Analyzer app is this?
I have three such apps, but none of them have the same display. (One can never have too many WiFi apps.)
I suspect something strange. 802.11ac is not a 2.4G capability. (5G only)
The analyzer I was using was the one located at: https://matthafner.com/wifi-analyzer.
As for the 2.4Ghz and 802.11ac, I was using a 2.4Ghz only WIFI connection at the time I got the snippets. Of course, the Orbi broadcasts the same SSID on both 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz - perhaps this is the reason for this weird info?
It shows 5Ghz and 802.11ac when I use a 5Ghz WIFI connection as below - but, of course, with a different MAC address:
All of the router/satellites show the same thing - an SSID for 2.4Ghz and for 5Ghz with different MAC addresses.
However, I don't think this has anything to do with the "SYNC_AP" SSID. Note that it only appears once (not multiple times like my main "Orbi06" SSID) and the "SYNC_AP" is only on 2.4Ghz.
Posting graphics again with MAC addresses masked out.
SSID I'm talking about:
SSID of one of my Orbi nodes using a 2.4Ghz WIFI adapter:
SSID of one of my Orbi nodes using a 5Ghz WIFI adapter
