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WiFi 7 and iPhone 16 Pro Max along with wireless backhaul
Having issues with iPhone 16 Max Pro's and iPad Pro's each will intermittently drop WiFi signal & WiFi calling and try to default toward using the cellular network. My setup is the following: F...
phillipsaz your config seems almost identical to mine, house too, except I have 2 satellites.
Is this a 970 system? If it is, the wireless backhaul does not use the same channel as the devices do - it's a dedicate wireless backhaul. Right FURRYe38 ? Is this true for 770 and 870 as well?
Not a lot to offer here, we know Apple/NG are working on this. It's actually banding issues, conflict between devices. The 2.4 and 5GHz channels don't really affect the 6 and 7 usage (5 is used for the 7), and we don't know what the 6E/7 channel decisions are that are being made as we have no config for that.
My experience has been when the devices flip to 5G, if you wait max 2-3 minutes, they figure it out and flip back - you don't have to forget the network. Can you try that? It's a lot easier if it works for you.
phillipsaz , my RBE973 Mesh System is no longer doing the WiFi/cellular flips since, 1) I reduced the WiFi channel collisions in my home by turning off one satellite (I still have 2 mesh nodes), and, 2) updating the firmware that was released last month (I’m old and can’t remember the version #, nor do I want to retype this info if I try to leave Safari, go into Orbi App to verify, and then come back to find this post “won’t post” when I do finish typing, sorry).
Another work around I used when I was dealing with the “flips” (before I resolved the issue last month as outlined in previous paragraph), was to go into my iPhone 15 pro max (WiFi 6E iPhone version) Settings and select my RBE971 Orbi “IOT” SSID. My iPhone would connect to the 2.4Mhz band, and very shortly after that connection was made, I went back into iPhone Settings and reconnected to the Orbi Main 5/6/7 MHz WiFi SSID.
Another work around I used when I was dealing with the “flips” (before I resolved the issue last month as outlined in previous paragraph), was to go into my iPhone 15 pro max (WiFi 6E iPhone version) Settings and select my RBE971 Orbi “IOT” SSID. My iPhone would connect to the 2.4Mhz band, and very shortly after that connection was made, I went back into iPhone Settings and reconnected to the Orbi Main 5/6/7 MHz WiFi SSID.