UPDATE: It was the phone. It seems that if the Nokia 5.3 can see a viable 5GHz WiFi that it knows about, even if it's set to not autoconnect, it does attempt to authenticate anyway, and then it drops the 2.4GHz connection... leaving the user with NO active connection afterwards. Original post- I…

With your phone, the device shouldn't even try to connect to the 5G radio if it isn't set to auto-connect (and if it doesn't have the password), so forgetting it from the phone should solve that problem. It turns out that forgetting the 5GHz connections DID solve it, I thought I'd done that, I ob…

Odd 2.4GHz disconnections due to 5GHz radio getting involved? Bug? (EX3700 EX6120 Nokia 5.3)

Installing and Using OpenWrt

psherman February 25, 2024, 2:04am 7

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