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R7000P Connection Issues with MU-MIMO
I have an R7000P running in AP mode and MU-MIMO turned on. This AP is 10 feet and no walls from my laptop. When I boot my laptop, it tries to connect to my R7000 running in AP mode. The R7000 is 40 f...
Since its a Broadcom chipset based router I would disable MU-MIMO, on Broadcom based AC routers regardless of brand it can cause performance issues as Broadcom didnt do a great job of implementing MU. Secondly, MU on a 3 antenna router is pretty pointless as most clients have 2 antennas and for proper MU functionality to have 2 dual antenna MU devices reciving at the same time you need 4 antenna routers. The only AC router on the market that does well with MU is the R7800 (4 antennas), it uses a Qualcomm chipset, and its Synology equivalent the RT2600ac as well which uses the same hardware.
If you do a little googling, unless you're running a network with a controller that moves the devices around, the device itself is responsible for moving between AP's. its own drivers/software/firmware is whats in controll of it. Not the router.
Since its a Broadcom chipset based router I would disable MU-MIMO, on Broadcom based AC routers regardless of brand it can cause performance issues as Broadcom didnt do a great job of implementing MU. Secondly, MU on a 3 antenna router is pretty pointless as most clients have 2 antennas and for proper MU functionality to have 2 dual antenna MU devices reciving at the same time you need 4 antenna routers. The only AC router on the market that does well with MU is the R7800 (4 antennas), it uses a Qualcomm chipset, and its Synology equivalent the RT2600ac as well which uses the same hardware.