OOOkkk found a solution at last--contacted the asus support guys and they suggested setting up a guest netowork on the 2.4g freq... worked like a charm. I gave access to this new ssid to the intranet so my phone can communicate with it
So this is a more elegant solution than adding an older...
im aggrieved there isnt a more elegant solution...
apparently my existing router shold just "let" the device be connected on the 2.4
are there any experts on the smartconnect rule out there
Got this from their CS email
—I believe the issue might be with your network. Our devices can only operate on 2.4GHz this is often an issue with mesh networks. Do you have a way of creating a unique SSID the only has 2.4 GHz or the ability to blacklist/whitelist the device to just 2.4 GHz? the...
Update
So bluecave dropsnout of aimesh and I cant goto router webpage. Internet still works.
Asus asked to return the bluecave for repairs. What’s going on ??
did you figure this out
im having problems with my blue cave i added to rt88ac... when setting up theres no problem with aimesh
after a week or so blue cave likes to go offline!
every damn week
ok my blue cave frequently gives up on the aimesh and its started to become frustrating
i also dont seem to get to router.asus.com webpage when this happens.. nneds a hard reset...
whats going on..
starting to think of calling up asus help line now..
but for this expensive system there really...
Ok I think I changed it to not enabled prior to screen shot. I reenabled it later and left it like that.
Ok the iPhone does see the tv when using the tv remote app. There’s another Samsung app Smart Frame where you can cast to the tv - that’s the one that’s not working correctly. It can...
i did see 2 wires connected to wlan card-one black, one white-- they the ones we talking about?
also did the ookla banging many times-- that 866.7 never changed, not even the .7!
approx 118down and 12up
also opened up the back vover and pulled out and reattached the wlan chip, cleaned the wires connecting.... instantly reconnected to wifi... earlier it used to take many "airplane mode" off and on maneuvers to reconnect to wifi so far o good... also difficult to edit this post whil e writing...