IoT Devices falling off nodes (only) always requires reboot to fix

[Tech9]

Some of your settings even before you get to AiMesh issues don't make much sense to me. You have WPA2/3 transitional, WPA3 requires PMF, Wi-Fi 6 is enabled on 2.4GHz band most likely in B/G/N/AX Auto, IGMP snooping is enabled, TX bursting is disabled... and you have a bunch of IoT devices which support none of the above and such settings can only make it worse. On 5GHz you push 160MHz wide Auto channel for unknown to me reason, it may only generate higher speed test numbers in expense of lower reliability and range.

 

[jksmurf]

Some of your settings even before you get to AiMesh issues don't make much sense to me. You have WPA2/3 transitional, WPA3 requires PMF, Wi-Fi 6 is enabled on 2.4GHz band most likely in B/G/N/AX Auto, IGMP snooping is enabled, TX bursting is disabled... and you have a bunch of IoT devices which support none of the above and such settings can only make it worse. On 5GHz you push 160MHz wide Auto channel for unknown to me reason, it may only generate higher speed test numbers in expense of lower reliability and range.

Re 2.4Ghz I’m pretty sure I mentioned somewhere above that as you can’t make the settings SSID specific, and I wanted some older iOS devices or iOS devices that will work a distance away and fall to the 2.4Ghz network to also connect, at up to AX. Is this realistic with a 20Mhz wide channel? I really don’t know. But I’d like to retain as many settings as possible for those devices as well as the IoTs. Asking too much? Maybe. I read about IGMP snooping and if I need to tweak some more I can look at it.

Actually the IoT network SSID in GNP uses WPA2 so for that there is a per SSID setting and it works well. My original aim was to remain as close to defaults as possible and tweak only what I need to, to get connected at the strongest node and stay connected. The trial and error parameters I list above work for me, thus far.

My 5Ghz devices connect really well, the speeds are good at 160 and the Smart Connect thresholds mean they find the strongest node and are not sticky if they move. I’m very happy with 5Ghz and as you often state, the client devices decide much of the connectivity and mine (iPhones iPads mostly) work really well in the main, they seem to be much cleverer than Shelly’s at any rate… I don’t have issues at 5Ghz. I know you and others say drop it to 80, but TBH, touch wood, 160 is working well.