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ikky
May 12, 2022Aspirant
new wifi with same name and password, Meural wont connect
Hi, I recently purchased Google Mesh access points to help with some external smart cameras located outside the house. . I used the same network name and password for it as my old network as I hop...
plemans
May 12, 2022Guru - Experienced User
Are you using any special characters or spaces in the ssid or password?
It shouldn't be an AX issue as I've used AX networks with both my meurals.
Are you using wpa3? You could try setting wpa2?
- ikkyMay 12, 2022Aspirant
Thanks for the response. I appreciate it.
SSID is alpha, password is alphanumeric... no special characters. Using WPA2.
It connects to the guest network without any issues..(its on the same hardware its a s/w config.... and it has the same configuration and a similar password layout) and has no issues.
I have to assume its cached a MAC address of the AP and the SSID associated with it and it doesn't like that the SSID is now associated with a new MAC address. Deleting the App, factory reset of the display, using a new device to configure, all did not help.
- plemansMay 12, 2022Guru - Experienced User
if you set your phone hotspot with the same exact ssid/password as the router, can you set it up? (shut off the router while trying this)
- ikkyMay 20, 2022Aspirant
Sorry, it took a while until I could shutdown my home network ( I work from home, and small children etc use the network all day...)
Results were the same.