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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...
Newest firmware loaded. iPhone 15 Pro Max keeps dropping WiFi especially if I move around the house. I have 4 units (router and three sats). This system just doesn’t know how to do handoffs well. And yes my home may be saturated with so many units (under 6k sqft), but it doesn’t seem to me that too much coverage should be a problem …
Let me jump into the fracus about “best” number of satellites in a NG WiFi 7 mesh network.
This will be at my risk of getting an “I told you so” from donawalt , CrimpOn , and FURRYe38 .
After I explained away to the aforementioned why I was using 2 Satellites behind the RBE971 in an 1800 square foot home with metal roofing and poured concrete interior/exterior walls (thus I thought I would get better signal penetration, wrong!), I finally unplugged 1 of the satellites (the one that was equi-distance between the Router and 3rd satellite).
I was sure my signal strength to connected devices would drop. To my surprise, the devices with 2-bar strengths (using 3-nodes), moved up to 3-bars when using 2-nodes.
After the latest firmware update a few weeks ago, my dropped signals during mesh node transfers dramatically decreased, but there was still one occasionally.
After finally listening to the brain-trust of the Community, I now believe, with WIFI 7 technology, “less” (nodes) is “better” (than more WiFi congestion).
I reserve the right to withdraw this post IF I do experience a WiFi drop during a node transfer, regardless of what level the sunspot warning had specified. It might have to take this action to end “Community Member gloating” over my un-belief.
This will be at my risk of getting an “I told you so” from donawalt , CrimpOn , and FURRYe38 .
After I explained away to the aforementioned why I was using 2 Satellites behind the RBE971 in an 1800 square foot home with metal roofing and poured concrete interior/exterior walls (thus I thought I would get better signal penetration, wrong!), I finally unplugged 1 of the satellites (the one that was equi-distance between the Router and 3rd satellite).
I was sure my signal strength to connected devices would drop. To my surprise, the devices with 2-bar strengths (using 3-nodes), moved up to 3-bars when using 2-nodes.
After the latest firmware update a few weeks ago, my dropped signals during mesh node transfers dramatically decreased, but there was still one occasionally.
After finally listening to the brain-trust of the Community, I now believe, with WIFI 7 technology, “less” (nodes) is “better” (than more WiFi congestion).
I reserve the right to withdraw this post IF I do experience a WiFi drop during a node transfer, regardless of what level the sunspot warning had specified. It might have to take this action to end “Community Member gloating” over my un-belief.
- Thanks for this post. I do have an update.
I went and bought a Deco WiFi 6 system thinking it would be more reliable. Set it up, and the speeds were sooooo slow in comparison. Immediately boxed it up to return it. While doing all this, I had some ideas about how to reconfigure my Orbi mesh. I dropped the 4th unit — so now I’m just using the three I originally got — and also switched locations of the other two, and put one of them in a completely different location exposed better to everything. It has been working great so far, with high speeds and better performance. I haven’t noticed the constant iPhone dropping either.
It may be that placement and saturation were issues for me. Fingers crossed this solves it, will report back with updates.Great! Once you think it's fixed, mark a solution so others will know. Happy it's working better!
- Well, scratch that. The issue continues. Now the weird deop/wifi changeover issue on my iPhone just happens at a different location in the house.
The things are definitely far enough apart. They are floors away and on opposite sides of the house. Have to be 50 feet. It’s just whenever you are on the threshold equally between two, it seems to just get confused, and my wifi signal quality will drop periodically, and then get strong and fast again.
Sigh. Running out of things to try here.
