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Unable to connect to WiFi after SSID Change on R7900
Product: Nighthawk X6 R7900 Firmware: V1.0.4.46_10.0.53 OS: iOS, Android, MacOS I recently changed the SSID and password for this router. After updating the SSID and password, none of the devic...
Be sure that WiFi Protected IP address is disabled on Apple devices.
If you set WiFI security to NONE, does any wifif device connect then? After checking this, re-enable WPA2 and AES only on the router.
Is Smart Connect enabled?
Try setting manual channels 1, 6 or 11 on 2.4Ghz and 40 or 149 on 5Ghz.
Be sure WMM is enabled.
What Brand and model is the ISP modem the router is connected too?
Thanks for the response.
- For "WiFi Protected IP address" are you referring the MAC address privacy setting?
- Setting security to None does not allow devices to connect
- I updated the channels as described - no material effect; on the rare occasion that my Android would establish a connection it did seem to last slightly longer (maybe 30 seconds) but it always failed again
- Smart Connect was disabled; I enabled it and tried again, but to no effect
- WMM is enabled for all bands
My building provides me with a single wired connection, and I have my router plugged into that. I don't know what the hardware is on the other end, unfortunately.
Interesting...not connecting at all to the router with no WPA enabled.
Yes, on iOS, disable this setting.
So no devices are getting connected to the router at all and not getting any kind of IP address from the router on the device?
Or are they connecting and just not getting any internet services?
On my Android device, it will report that it is connected sometimes, usually for less than 5 seconds. This is both with WPA2 AES and without. Once I got it to connect for about 30 seconds. When it reports that it is connected and it stays connected long enough, I can see that it does get an IP address, and it appears it can access the internet. But the connection always drops and the re-connect cycle starts over again, until the device finally gives up and stops trying to connect.
I have not yet had any success with my Mac maintaining a connection for even a couple of seconds, and I don't have an iOS device at my side right now, but was having issues with an iOS device last week when this issue started.