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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...
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.
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.
- Just checking the admin page, and at one moment it showed my iPhone as 2.4Ghz connection, and a moment later 5Ghz. Sometimes it shows 6Ghz. Is it having issues hopping between these? And why the heck did it show a 2.4Ghz connection??
Just buggy admin software?0tis I saw exactly this behavior on older FW - 9.12.4.x versions! I had a signal detector on it too, the 5GHz at least had a perfectly strong enough signal that it should not have gone to 2.4 or cell.
But I have not seen this behavior once on 9.12.4.16. Are you on that version?
Also - per my post in msg #93 and #94#, you really should test signal strengths if you are on 9.12.4.16. You may have just moved the problem. It could still be getting equally strong signals at the point of failures that's confusing it.You won't know what's going on unless you measure the signal strengths with an app - it's easy enough to do.
- Yes I’m definitely on 9.12.4.16. Maybe I’ll have to go through testing signal strength. I can’t fathom I’m still over saturated since I removed a satellite. Each one has to be a good 40+ feet from the other two, separated by floors and walls. One satellite is wired backhaul. When I sit near either one I get rock solid 6G speeds over 1GB near the hardwired locations). . In the current location (my bedroom) it just seems to endlessly toggle between 2.5 and 5 and just dropping wifi altogether, although when it rests on 5G I’m getting a solid 300MB (it doesn’t seem to want to connect 6G where I am now).
- Now I’m noticing in the admin page that my iPhone at one minute was connected at 2.4Ghz (how can that be??), and the next moment at 5Ghz, then the next moment WiFi dropped entirely and it switched to ceullar etc. These switches and drops keep happening, all while I’m stationary. When it connects well I get a strong connection and 300Mb on speed test, but only for a minute until this cycling begins again. What the heck.