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Xr500 randomly disconnects from wifi
I bought his router about 9 months ago. Most of the time I have no issues. However lately I have been disconnected and reconnected multiple times. I am not a gamer. I wanted a quality wifi for my hom...
Sorry to hear you're having that issue, try my above suggestion if you haven't already. Then use a WiFi analyser to find the least congested channel and change to that in the WiFi Settings. Does it occur on all wireless devices or specific ones?
I took off smart connect but continue to loose signal. It drops from all devices (computer, phone, tv streaming, etc).
- Okay try the above suggestions regarding channels. Have you changed any Advanced WiFi Settings at all? If you look in the logs in System Information around the time it happens are there any entries?
I have not changed any wifi settings. Everything is "enabled". The drop happens on both 2.4 and 5.0 at the same time. As for the logs, I can only see what is happening today (not last night when it dropped). I don't know how to see back then. Also I'm frustrated the "device manager" for the Nighthawk Ap does not work on my iOS phone. I've got everything current and did a reboot but the ap does not fully function. I have to login on my computer to use all the functions. I've read in this community that many others have had that problem too. Back to the dropping issue...should I changed something on my wifi settings?
- Give the devices that are dropping connection a static/reserved IP in LAN Settings, use the IP they're already getting and then reboot the router and see if they disconnect again.