Wifi Drops When Moving from Downstairs to Upstairs

[YorkshireMash]

When moving around the house, particularly from downstairs (where the router is) to upstairs, my MacBook loses connection. Actually, it remains connected, but I am unable to route anywhere. I'm running on the 5GHz side.

Disabling the NIC on the Mac and reconnecting it brings everything back to life. Signal strength is absolutely fine.

I suspect there's probably a simple setting on the Billion 8800AXL that I run, that might fix this, or go some way to fixing this...

Any ideas?

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[billion_fan]

When moving around the house, particularly from downstairs (where the router is) to upstairs, my MacBook loses connection. Actually, it remains connected, but I am unable to route anywhere. I'm running on the 5GHz side.

Disabling the NIC on the Mac and reconnecting it brings everything back to life. Signal strength is absolutely fine.

I suspect there's probably a simple setting on the Billion 8800AXL that I run, that might fix this, or go some way to fixing this...

Any ideas?

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Try changing the channel to fixed channel eg channel 36

[YorkshireMash]

Apologies - went quiet as it seemed to work. Must not have kept an eye on it, as it hasn't made any difference

[Tomken]

It's quite possible that because of the construction of your home that you are going through a "blind" spot.

5GHz uses what is known as a splatter effect where the signal bounces off walls, whereas 2.4GHz goes through them - at least to a point depending upon the thickness and materials used.

Change to 2.4GHz to see if you still experience the problem.