Summer was great in my household, all my wireless devices were getting along just fine with my AC87R and Merlin's great firmware till start of school and now 3 apple devices are pushed upon my household all having to work so my kids can get their education. Now I have to deal with a MacBook and two tablets that all seem to want to have the Wi-Fi all to themselves.
It first started when connected via 5 GHz which has been all over these forms but never bugged me. But for some reason these devices only connect within very close proximity to the router. So I tried the normal trick, turn off beamforming, nope doesn't help and now the roku's upstairs won't stream properly so beamforming goes back on. So I decide to put them on 2.4 and now we have the coverage and the connections. But when they are connected many of my older 2.4 GHz devices become flakey and WiFi calling does not work properly on the cell phones. I only use 20 MHz in 2.4 band for N connections so I am not turning of N so that is out.
So my only solution was to break out my old N16 router, and set it up as a access point and carve out a channel and SSID only for the Apple devices and disabled N support so we are back to basic G. Now the world is in harmony again. I sure hope the other kids homes have patience to work though this issues. I could just image what they may be going though.
It first started when connected via 5 GHz which has been all over these forms but never bugged me. But for some reason these devices only connect within very close proximity to the router. So I tried the normal trick, turn off beamforming, nope doesn't help and now the roku's upstairs won't stream properly so beamforming goes back on. So I decide to put them on 2.4 and now we have the coverage and the connections. But when they are connected many of my older 2.4 GHz devices become flakey and WiFi calling does not work properly on the cell phones. I only use 20 MHz in 2.4 band for N connections so I am not turning of N so that is out.
So my only solution was to break out my old N16 router, and set it up as a access point and carve out a channel and SSID only for the Apple devices and disabled N support so we are back to basic G. Now the world is in harmony again. I sure hope the other kids homes have patience to work though this issues. I could just image what they may be going though.