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EX7000 extender dropping wifi connections
I have a Starlink connection which was served by a Nighthawk R7000, which served 3x EX7000 extenders. All on the latest firmware and working perfectly, but would sometimes drop the wifi connection of...
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Thanks for that.
I've now turned on FastLane and that seems to have fixed the problems, it connects instantly instead of a turning circle for ages. I also tried connecting a Ubiquiti AP to the extender and it refused to work (it got an IP address but couldn't connect a device) until I activated FastLane. So the problem appears to be whenever 2.4GHz and 5GHz is shared, and Unifi highlights it too.
I'm going to keep an eye on it.