Thank you @alzhao!
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Same SSID for both bands: Noted, but this is the scenario I’m trying to avoid. Many apartments that I’ve stayed in have lots of congestion and noise in the 2.4 GHz band, so I’d like to specifically keep all my connections in the 5 GHz band. I haven’t found a way to force my M1 MacBook Pro to only connect to a 5 GHz network when the 2.4 GHz network has the same SSID, and the 5 GHz RSSI is weaker than -68 dBm, which was often the case and is what lead me to buy the unit. Although it looks like Apple devices using Wi-Fi 6E will need the SSIDs to match across bands: Use Wi-Fi 6E networks with Apple devices
. Really, I could have bought a USB-C Wi-Fi adapter that let me disable the 2.4 GHz band, but this unit offers much more functionality that I’d like to start using. -
Avoid DFS: Bummer, as DFS is a great concept, and most of my AirBnB hosts’ Wi-Fi networks use DFS, so I’m stuck with it.
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Upgrade firmware: I’m looking forward to the DFS fix in 4.1!
4.0.3 is shown as the latest from the unit, and I don’t see a button to trigger the check for update, I assume it happens on page load?
Local upgrade could use a link to the download page.
Googled it and found this page, where 4.1.0 is still listed as beta; while I’m travelling and depending on the unit, I’m not sure I want to take the risk of installing a beta build. I haven’t yet found a link to a build status page to show if the beta build is passing tests.
Seems related, may be different symptoms of the same root cause?
AXT1800’s 5GHz SSID disappears as soon as device is repeating another 5GHz signal - Beta Testing - GL.iNet (gl-inet.com)