Recent content by strumf666

Bought another router to use as an AP, not problems since.

Hi, 1. Volumio. 2. Yes. 3. Not for long and it got worse with time, at first a restart was good for a couple of days at least, later on, for a few hours at most and occasionally rpis would drop from wifi during music playback (usually it happened when they were idle). 4. Yes, I had issues on...

Update: After changing the channel for 2.4GHz, RPi's are not dropping from network anymore, even though I am back on the same channel as before... Seems like the router needed to have the settings "refreshed"? Sadly, that's not the case for 5GHz... Also 5GHz is weird as @Sky noticed from the...

Domain666/5G are my SSIDs.; Domain665 too, but thats another router in the basement so not important in this case. RPi's are b/g/n/ac, before this issue I had them on 5GHz, and I plan to return them to 5GHz if possible. Thanks for the explanation; I wasn't aware of prime channels, I thought they...

I changed 2.4GHz channel to 1. What makes you think it will work better on 1? I get a lot of overlap in both cases. How would you suggest to max bandwidth for 5GHz?

Still only RPI's having the problem; laptop, phone and tablet work normally on both frequencies. For 5GHz (Domain666_5G) all setting are already set as @Sky recommended and I am the only one in range using it, so interference is quite unlikely to be the cause of the problem. For 2.4GHz...

Well, I switched RPi's to 2.4 GHz and the issue still exists, so my second assumption that 5ghz is to blame is incorrect. I'll check WinFi and inSSIDer next, thanks for the suggestion.

Well this exact same setup worked without problems for a couple of years, and at the time when problems began I didn't upgrade or change anything, so I am a bit puzzled... Could be that router is starting to give up since it was damaged by lightning about a year ago (dead wan port), but until...

RPi is running a music player os/distribution (volumio) which has option to store credentials for a single wifi network, so jumping around isn't an option, afaik. Is it possible to see if the router is forcibly disconnecting a client in log? The other disappearing RPI has ~10dBm stronger...

FW is latest. Both rpi's are missing and of course are unreachable as well. Phone and tablet works fine. No errors in syslog A few refreshes later, on RPi appeared back and it is reachable and works as it should. After a few restarts of the missing RPi it is also back and working normally. I...

Latest fw, I believe, I'll check when I get home. Clients aren't spread evenly, most are on 2.4GHz, because they don't support 5GHz. The ones having problem are on 5GHz, though (a few RPi 3b+) Adding meaning connecting clients to the wifi, disappearing meaning they can't be reached on the network.

Is there a practical limit to how many clients it can handle (in AP mode if it matters)? Atm I have around 20 clients connected, most to 2.4GHz, some on 5GHz, and after adding the last few (on 2.4) some of the existing clients on 5GHz are disappearing and I can only get them back after either a...

Well, that defeats the purpose of having a guest wifi. I would like to avoid having to use 2 APs if possible, hence the question.

Can AC87U in AP mode be used to transmit home wifi and guest wifi somehow?

Router works, I assigned one of the Lan ports as wan, but I would like to try to fix the wan port.