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images sent from phone are failing and having issues
Hi All, I recently purchased an xr500 router and I've been noticing an issue when sending/receiving pics via text message. When sending, it will stall for awhile and then fail. Sometimes it goes ...
- Could you try disabling MU-MIMO from there please - I'm not sure how new your phones are but might be they don't support it properly.
These should all be the defaults from the device reset. Screenshot attached
Could you try disabling MU-MIMO from there please - I'm not sure how new your phones are but might be they don't support it properly.
I've only received 1 failure since making that change. I'm continuing to test but it does seem like an improvement (watch me be speaking too soon again. lol). My phone is a pixel 3, originally released in late 2018, so I would only imagine that it should be able to work with MU-MIMO without issue. Will having this setting disabled cause me any conflicts with other devices?
- That's a good sign! No it shouldn't cause any issues for other devices.
I appreciate the reply. I'll go ahead and mark this as resolved for the MU-MIMO change and hopefully (fingers crossed) this is all done. If you don't hear back from me, thank you for all your help.