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Over the past month approximately the disconnects have become increasingly frequent
My Orbi mesh system is 6 months old. After some initial setup pains, the system worked very well for 3-4 months. Over the past month approximately the disconnects have become increasingly frequent. A...
Thanks for the prompt reply, FURRYe38. The disconnects are all seen at the RBSs, but most of the device use occurs away from the RBR. I have not tried to determine if the disconnects occur in proximity to the RBR. IPv6 is enabled on the RBR. At any given time, there may be 4 or 5 devices connected including Windows desktop, Windows laptops, iPhones, iPads, Wiim network streamers and a Brother printer. (All devices are connecting well at this moment and the network has been stable for hours. Hmmm. Like when we were kids and our toothaches disappeared when Mom told us we were going to the dentist.)
Ok something Im testing right now on with problems seen at the RBS and letting NG know about.
Any of these devices have WiFi7 features, like phones or pads?
What is the brand and model# of the wifi adapters with in the Windows desktop and laptops please.
Please disable IPv6 on the RBR for now.
Please turn OFF one RBS and re-test for disconnects.
Try using manual channels 1 and 40 or 11 and 48.
The disconnects are all seen at the RBSs, but most of the device use occurs away from the RBR. I have not tried to determine if the disconnects occur in proximity to the RBR. IPv6 is enabled on the RBR. At any given time, there may be 4 or 5 devices connected including Windows desktop, Windows laptops, iPhones, iPads, Wiim network streamers and a Brother printer. (All devices are connecting well at this moment and the network has been stable for hours. Hmmm. Like when we were kids and our toothaches disappeared when Mom told us we were going to the dentist.)
You may be onto something very interesting. My problems, now that I think of it, are roughly contemporaneous with a purchase of an ASUS ProArt 16 laptop (H7606WP), which has a MediaTek WiFi 7 MT7925 Wireless LAN card. I ran a command (netsh wlan show interfaces) that shows the Radio Type to be 802.11be.
There is nothing else on the system that is using WiFi 7. There is another laptop that has an Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz card, Radio Type 802.11ax. The desktop is about 8 years old. The Wiim devices only use 2.4 GHz. The other devices (iPhones, iPads are a couple of years old.)
I have disabled IPv6 for now and unplugged one of the satellites.
Awesome. Thank you for the details.
I'm testing with AX210 adapter, NG A9000 BE adapter and ethernet connected PC currently.
Make sure drivers are up to date for your adapters.
You can set Perferred Back on the AX201 which should support 5Ghz. Not sure about the MediaTek adapter if they support perferred band. My A9000 does and have it set to 6Ghz.
Ethernet PC here is tracking as compariton to see if issues seen on wifi is also seen on ethernet.