This has been driving me crazy.
For the last 2 days or so, I've noticed that my iPhone is constantly connecting and disconnecting from the wifi on my Flint 2. The iPhone is the most obvious one, and my wife says she’s noticed her phone dropping but not constantly like mine. I've noticed that our two Nest learning thermostats are periodically losing their connection on 2.4G, though much less frequently. Other devices, like PCs and an apple TV seem to be rock solid still. I believe they're all on 5G.
The steps I've tried in as close to the order as I can get:
- Rebooted the phone multiple times
- Rebooted the router multiple times
- Forget and reconnect to wifi on my phone
- Test on 2.4G network on my phone
- Updated the router firmware to beta
- Rolled the router firmware back one release (4.6.4)
- Updated back to latest release (4.6.8)
- Disabled the private MAC address feature on my iPhone
- At this point I began to wonder about whether my neighbor's wifi networks could be crowding the channel my SSIDs are broadcast on. A very close neighbor just had GFiber installed, which would probably come with an equipment change. After doing some analyzing, it seemed there was some room for improvement on 5G and 2.4G, but nothing major. I selected some new channels. No change.
- I also added two more smart plugs to my 2.4G network. I thought maybe there were too many wifi clients. It's somewhere around 30, which sounds high, but lesser routers seemed to do fine with that. I had trouble believing the Flint wouldn't be able to handle it. I unplugged three of them and rebooted the router. No change.
None of these steps has helped at all. Is it my router? Is it our devices? I'm at a bit of a loss.
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