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Firmware 12.1.11.10 iPhone disconnects
After quite a good run with the previous firmware, this update is causing issues again with at least my iPhone. It randomly disconnects and most times I can toggle the WIFI on the phone a few times ...
Turns out, if IPV4 is set to manual, automatic DNS doesn't work on iPhone/iPad. The DNS has to be set manually as well. Not sure why this wasn't a problem with v9.13.2.1, but it is now.
I cannot replicate this behavior on my PC as there is not an automatic DNS option, DNS must be set manually when setting a manual IP address.
At any rate, I think this is the solution: when setting a manual IPV4 address on an Apple device, scroll down to the DNS settings and configure the DNS manually as well - Automatic DNS does not work in this case.
I'll write this down to user error, I guess, uncovered by new firmware behavior.
Interesting results so far...
so far, no more disconnects on the iPhone 17 Pro after enabling WPA2 and WPA3 on the WiFi 7 main SSID. It's only been 24 hours but looks promising. But why? And why did I choose that as my first thing to try? Gut feeling? But I'd been using WPA3 only on that SSID for months with the previous firmware and possibly longer - no idea how long, really. I'll give it a few more days, and if solid, will flip it back to verify.
There are still some bad behaviors with IPv6 and Apple devices using WiFi7 that NG is aware of.