Guys need some help on something...
I have 2x Asus OnHub in Mesh. Previously the Nighthawk R7000.
Anyway main OnHub is in the basement and secondary OnHub is 2 floors up in my bedroom.
Even with only the single OnHub in the basement, I get full signal bars upstairs on my iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 6s Plus. Not covering a huge space. 2,100 - 2,200 sqft max.
Anyway I have been having issues with WiFi Calling dropping and reconnecting randomly since I switched to the OnHub. I've reset them both and even went with a single one to see if Mesh was the issue.
Contacted support and they were trying to figure it out. Sent them the log and also reported from the app which send them the statistics. They're pretty much ignoring me at this point since they can't figure it out.
Anyway I've always monitored which node I connect to to see how well the device picks the router with the best signal and it's pretty random when I'm in the main level. Sometimes it picks the one above me in the bedroom and sometimes it picks the one below me in the basement. Anytime I go upstairs, the phone automatically switches to the bedroom OnHub from the basement one and that's pretty cool.
So anyway I started wondering if my WiFi Calling was dropping because I was switching from one to the other and the indicator on the phone was just a bit delayed when it was actually dropping WiFi Calling. The past couple of day I started monitoring more frequently and it seems like when I'm in the living room, it just picks 5Ghz from either OnHub. Then when I move to the front of my house, I may drop 1 bar on WiFi for a couple of seconds and sometimes my phone gets greyed out in the Google WiFi app.
I never actually lose Wifi on the phone itself. Once the app refreshes, it shows that the band has changed and that I'm on 2.4Ghz of the OnHub that I was connected to. After a couple of minutes I check again and I'm on 2.4Ghz on the other OnHub and after a few seconds I'm on 5Ghz of that same OnHub.
So it looks like band steering is working well without dropping me off the network and that the device is switching from one OnHub to another OnHub based on signal strength, channel, and etc.
But this strikes me as strange since I don't think it is my phone that is doing this as in actively seeking the strongest connection on the best band because my signal strength barely drops to warrant it. And I'm not leaving my house.
And while it switches from 2.4Ghz to 5Ghz and to another band on the second OnHub, my WiFi Calling indicator stays on so my theory is busted.
So my question is, is the OnHub juggling my phone around to give it the best and strongest connection at all times?
As far as I know, based on the current standards, it is normally the client that seeks and holds on to the AP and normally doesn't switch until it drops signal strength quite a bit.
In my case, my phone seems to be switching to both quite often when I'm in my living room and always on 5Ghz except when I go to the front of my house where it switches to 2.4Ghz on the existing router then switches router to 2.4Ghz again and then to 5Ghz on the second router if it has a stronger 5Ghz signal than the first router!
Any insights or comments?
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from local ad. All seems to be working but currently I'm on Linksys EA6900 with xvortex FW. I've 8 port unmanaged gigabit switch. Is this the right setup?
