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Disabling 802.11e APSD (WiFi power saving)
Hi all, I have received a new RBR750 with two satellites in our home. We have about 60 smart lights and led strips from lifx. They are being controlled via a local homeassistant server on the lan. ...
mark0077 wrote:
The next thing he did was disable the WiFi power saving feature, which these strips seem to request/make use of, which then allows them to into a sleep mode. I guess this only works if the network/router supports it. I want to disable this on my orbi network, even if it means telnetting into the router.
It seems "a bit much" to think that a WiFi feature that became officially part of the standard in 2007 would be the cause of IoT devices not working correctly in 2022. (plus two days).
The reasoning seems exactly backward:
- Device wants to use power saving feature.
- Router supports power saving feature.
- Solution is to turn the feature off on the router.
As far as I am aware, Netgear has not published anything specific on the topic of power saving. There is this article about WMM
https://kb.netgear.com/221/WMM-WiFi-Multimedia which has a puzzling statement:
What this sounds like is WMM is the "key", and the user gets to choose between performance of multi-media and not having disconnects "under certain conditions." These days, WMM performance might be significant issue for the 5G band, but not the 2.4G band.
Aside from enable/disable WMM, there is no option to tinker with individual components of Power Save Certification.