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CAX30 - 2.4 wifi bad /5ghz good?
Not sure what's going on but all of a sudden the router won't allow connection via wifi 2.4 but does connect on 5 ghz. Reset the router to factory specs - I'm using xfinity service On several devic...
The only options are Channels 1-11.
I manually selected each channel with no change. I think it's more than a channel / interference issue.
During my testing I noticed that sometimes my 2.4 SSID shows up and sometimes it doesn't. When it shows up I try to connect to it and I get the message -can't connect to the network. I'll do the "forget the network" routine and reboot the modem/router and the laptop and try the process again. Sometimes it shows up, I connect to it and it works for maybe 30-40 seconds and then disappears. The 5 ghz side works perfectly. but the 5 ghz side seems much slower than the 2.4 side.
I'm leaning towards a faulty sporadic 2.4 transmitter issue. Anyway to test that?
Anyway to test that?
Perhaps confirm that the network is gone using a wifi analyzer app?
I confirmed the network is up/down using the graphing component of a wifi scan but it seems this forum doesn't allow images, even low res to be attached or included. It keeps saying try later.
but it seems this forum doesn't allow images
A bug which has been reported to Netgear. Very annoying.
I confirmed the network is up/down using the graphing component of a wifi scan
If the network disappears, then I think you either have a failing 2.4 ghz radio or the gateway is rebooting. Since 5 ghz never disappears, it does point to the radio.