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Going nuts with Orbi 950 WiFi authentication(?) issues (every 2 weeks)
Good Morning!
I have an Orbi 953 (Costco version of Orbi 960 with a few differences), along with 2 satellite devices. I have around 90 devices connected across two SSIDs, let's call them "main" an...
NutsWithWiFi wrote:
- 2.4 GHz channel. Auto (almost all of my IoT devices use this)
The 2.4G channel setting affects only the router. WiFi devices scan the entire set of channels looking for an access point that has a strong signal and offers an SSID that they recognize. "Auto" means that the router scans the 2.4G channels and picks one of them based on some algorithm that is not documented. Some users prefer to specify the 2.4G channel based on their own analysis. If the 2.4G channel is changed, all of the WiFi devices will soon find it.
Information about the 5G and 6G capability is not relevant:
They went for the oldest (and cheapest) 2.4G WiFi chips, not even supporting 802.11n (2009).
The RBK953 package supports a separate Internet of Things (IoT) SSID. See page 64 of the User Manual:
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RBKE963/RBRE960_RBSE960_UM_EN.pdf
I have a suspicion*, and it is only a suspicion, that the guest network may have a time limit on how long devices are allowed to remain on the network, which might explain why devices broadcast DHCP requests that are not answered.
* Actually, it's a very dim memory from a post in the last month or so. With my memory, it could have been a dream.