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Problems switching in mesh
Since a year I have a setup with one router (RBR850) and three satellites (RBS850).
This should be set up as a mesh network, so that my devices automatically switch one from to the other.
The reception is great in the house, every room has full reception. However, the switching between different satellites does not work well at all. Very often after I moved through the house, my iPhone says it's connected to wifi, but shows 5G instead. Then none of my wifi functionality is available, e.g. control Sonos. Could anyone tell me what could be set up wrong?
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what firmware version are you on?
What modem/gateway is the router connected to?
how far apart is the router from satellites? they should be at least 30ft apart?
What are the interior walls of your home made from?
Do other devices have issues or just the iphones?
As I have just read in a White Paper on WiFi6e and seen with my RBK853 system, the APs are there for devices to find and decide and select which AP has the better connection. I have long since thought the same that things would migrate around even out and connect to whichever AP they were closer to thinking that would be the better connection. Nope. And they don't and haven't in the 3ish years I've had the RBK853.
I just installed a trial version of FW that took out my RBSs. That left only the RBR and everything connected to it just fine and some devices that are way on the other side and levels of the house normally with two APs between there and the AP/RBR that they are currently connected to. All connected way better than I thought they would with better than they normally do when connected to the closer APs. As of 19 hours of things stewing, I have one AP on the far West end of the house with a device that is on the far East end of the house with the RBR between the two and the other AP, far East end, there are two devices from the far West end connected at full speed with the two APs between them. But all the rest of the gear is connected to the RBR in the middle and at better connections than they normally do. And some are in bad places.
So every device has three APs to choose from and they are connecting far from what one would expect or it would be logically. It sounds like since your phone didn't jump to the next best AP, your phone didn't think it was the next best compared to the last one, there could be interference that is causing it problems in looking for a new connection and now the best connection as far as it's concerned is the 5G. That's part of the nature of "The Ghost in the Machine". And we have no control over it . . . nor any of the new congestion and inference that may have popped up since and will over time.
Your phone is made to go to the best signal and also is set to believe that 5G will always be the best. </book>
