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What device seems to be repeating DHCP requests?
Can you turn this device off then see if the 5Ghz radio stops this drop out?
Is Smart Connect enabled or disabled?
Smart Connect is not on by default and disabled.
I have isolated everything off the 5Ghz band and only have the one device connecting to it while troubleshooting.
The DHCP logs show something interesting for the one device that is connecting but as you will see below a number of devices are all doing the same thing regardless of WIFI band.
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:50:48
[WLAN access rejected: incorrect security] from MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:50:44
Further back in the logs there is multiple entries for the device connected that are from DHCP as well.
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:36:49
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:36:48
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:35:39
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:35:36
The DHCP lease time seems to be really short as I can see the previous time this lease was renewed,
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:45:05
And previously to that,
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:08:29
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:08:28
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:08:14
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:08:12
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:08:10
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:08:08
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:08:02
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:07:52
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.102)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:42, Sunday, May 28, 2023 08:06:35
Other devices, connecting to 2GHz also have multiple DHCP entries which seems odd.
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.136)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:36, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:46:43
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.136)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:36, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:46:40
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.136)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:36, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:44:37
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.136)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:36, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:44:15
[DHCP IP: (192.168.0.136)] to MAC address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:36, Sunday, May 28, 2023 14:44:12
Thinking to rule out the DHCP SYN/ACK traffic I might assign a static address to the device on the 5Ghz network and see if it stays connected.
Hmmm. I believe SC is enabled by default. Especially after a factory reset.
So what IS this device? Brand and model?
The device I now have isolated to 5Ghz WIFI is a late 2021 Apple iMac running Ventura OS 13.4. In addition this I had a standard Acer Aspire laptop running Windows 11 which also displayed the same behaviours when connecting to 5Ghz WIFI. Didn't really matter which device it was, even multiple iPhones for instance, 10, SE and 14 Pro would all behave in the same way.