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mapotter99
Jul 09, 2024Apprentice
Possible Fix for iPhone Dropping WiFi
I have an RBE973S system. think I have identified the reason my iPhone keeps dropping WiFi, and I wanted to share so others can see if it solves their issues. On your iPhone, go to Settings>Cellula...
mapotter99
Sep 24, 2024Apprentice
I spoke too soon. My iPhone 16 Pro Max with WiFi 7 seemed better for the first evening after upgrading, but it is now behaving exactly as my old iPhone 15 Pro Max with WiFi 6e did.
The settings options are exactly the same.
For me, setting “WiFi 6e mode” to off helps a bit, but not entirely. It also doesn’t help that the iPhone changes this back to automatic on its own after a period of time.
The settings options are exactly the same.
For me, setting “WiFi 6e mode” to off helps a bit, but not entirely. It also doesn’t help that the iPhone changes this back to automatic on its own after a period of time.
- 0tisSep 24, 2024Guide
Mine continues to drop when walking around my house … or sometimes even standing still in the same room with full wifi strength.
Jumps to 5G; my call drops or my zoom call freezes for a moment and reconnects.
Still incredibly annoying, and still astonishing to me this hasn’t been fixed yet given what we spent on this system, and how basic our ask is (“Please just allow us to stay connected when we are standing still and using the most popular mobile device on the market” — this doesn’t seem like a big ask…).
- BpberthiaumeSep 30, 2024Tutor
Also incredibly frustrated with the Orbi 970 product and iPhone Wifi Dropping... My wife had the iPhone 15 Pro Max while I was on the non-wifi6e iPhone 14. We got these routers and she constantly experienced Wifi droppage while my phone was unscathed. Forced us to go back to our older Orbi wifi system and kept this in the closet as a massively expensive paper weight because we were beyond the return timeframe...
Fast forward to where we both upgrade to the new iPhone 16 Pro Max and we set the 970's back up. Continue to experience Wifi droppage as its clearly happening when you are far enough away from the router you're connect to and it tries to jump you to a closer satellite... Completely lose Wifi, switch to 5g, probably takes a few minutes in total to get reconnected (unless of course we wander back to another part of the house and switch routers again due to signal strength and it repeats).
Absolutely insane Netgear cannot figure this out for a system that costs well over a grand... countless 'secret' firmware updates sent by tech support with no progress made whatsoever...
- donawaltSep 30, 2024Mentor - Experienced User
Wow you have countless firmware updates being sent to you? That's a LOT. At least they are working on it....So then what firmware version are you running now on the router?
You don't by any chance have devices on Manual IP + DNS assignment do you? Default is Automatic assignment, just wondering...