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Wifi Drops When Moving from Downstairs to Upstairs
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:25 pm
by 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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Re: Wifi Drops When Moving from Downstairs to Upstairs
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 9:31 am
by billion_fan
YorkshireMash wrote: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?
Screen Shot 2016-04-07 at 23.24.44.png
Try changing the channel to fixed channel eg channel 36
Re: Wifi Drops When Moving from Downstairs to Upstairs
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:17 pm
by YorkshireMash
Apologies - went quiet as it seemed to work. Must not have kept an eye on it, as it hasn't made any difference
Re: Wifi Drops When Moving from Downstairs to Upstairs
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:48 am
by 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.