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Another bug? Router does not see the manual IP address
Check this image out. I have my MacBook Pro set with a manual address - 192.168.1.154. Yet the router admin web page Attached Devices, and the Orbi app, show it as 192.168.1.22 - an automatic IP/DHC...
donawalt , Ok, I knew I’d checked this before, but I’d forgotten I had. The IP address my iPhone shows in Settings is the DHCP IP I have reserved in the 971 router. It has been that same Reserved IP shown on my iPhone since I installed the router in late May and reserved the DHCP IP after the router first assigned it to the phone, so my device IP’s aren’t all over the board like yours are!
I think my router is probably flooding DHCP requests too like you saw and switched to Static IP’s, but apparently every time the mesh WiFi 7 network drops my WiFi connection, the router sees my DHCP reservation and reassigns the same one, over and over again.
If these 971’s are going to continually drop WiFi, you might as well go back to Reserved IP’s until NG gets this IPV6, DhCP, Static IP issue fixed? At least you’ll know the devices IP, and your static IP’s apparently haven’t reduced the DHCP flooding anyway.
I will say your suggestion to disable 6E and stay on 5Ghz band is not perfect (and won’t be without firmware update), but it seems to be as “reliable” as this WiFi router can be at this point in time.
I think my router is probably flooding DHCP requests too like you saw and switched to Static IP’s, but apparently every time the mesh WiFi 7 network drops my WiFi connection, the router sees my DHCP reservation and reassigns the same one, over and over again.
If these 971’s are going to continually drop WiFi, you might as well go back to Reserved IP’s until NG gets this IPV6, DhCP, Static IP issue fixed? At least you’ll know the devices IP, and your static IP’s apparently haven’t reduced the DHCP flooding anyway.
I will say your suggestion to disable 6E and stay on 5Ghz band is not perfect (and won’t be without firmware update), but it seems to be as “reliable” as this WiFi router can be at this point in time.
HI Roc1 , a few things from your post:
1) You are using reserved IPs in the DHCP range. I am not. I am using manually entered IPs outside the DHCP range.
2) You may have DHCP flooding, as with reserved IP addresses the DHCP server, as part of the router, does have to serve up IP addresses. With a manual IP address, the DHCP is not involved. My DHCP flooding has been eliminated by using manual addresses.
3) I don't have any 5G "flips" or dropped connections with WiFi 6E turned off on my 2 mobile devices that support it - iPad and iPhone. The network has been rock-stable for me with that configuration!
I would like to see 6E work better in the next firmware update, which I suspect will be soon. It should be, especially with NG touting their WiFi 7 support in the 970 series, and with WiFi 7 devices coming...