Netgear R6900v2 drops connections

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi,

I have R6900v2 with openwrt 21.02.1 r16325-88151b8303. The wifi settings are as Apple recommends. Despite that, our Apple devices frequently lose their wifi connection, despite being near (within 10m) of the router and having a decent signal strength.

(Sidenote: FWIW I can't seem to connect to the router with r8188eu or bcm43228 devices from my linux box at all. On the rare occasions these devices associate, dhclient fails to get an address.)

I would appreciate any suggestions for troubleshooting the dropped connections.

Thanks for any pointers. I would also be willing to use a different router if I could be relatively sure it would work better.

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This was actually easy to work around. I'd been using the 2.4GHz frequency radio0. Maybe the settings weren't quite right. In any case, by enabling the 5GHz radio1 with WPA2-PSK, AC mode and 80MHz width, I connected readily with two of the devices that previously had problems.

Thank you

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