I have around 35 wifi devices in my home, and always used a huawei AX3 router.
I switched to a asus RT-AX86U, but a lot of my (smart home) devices like smart bulbs and camera's wont connect. I could turn the smart bulbs off/on again, and most would connect.
However, my camera's will not connect to the router, neither my smart hub. I even tried resetting the hub's network settings, and tried connecting it to the asus but failed.
After factory resetting the device twice and messing around, i was not able to fix this. Again i had to turn off/on bulbs in order for them to connect.
Frustratedly i disconnected the router and put back my old huawei AX3, and all devices connected really fast and without problems....
So I thought it was the asus, even though it received lots of praise. I packaged it up again, and searched for another router. I bought the Cudy M1800. Once again, exactly the same problem.
However weirdly, the smartthings hub now instantly connects without problems. But the smart bulbs and camera's have the same issues. Turning them off/on makes the smart bulbs work, the smart camera's don't feel like connecting at all. Same for my vacuum robot, and probably devices im forgetting.
So, i am receiving the Dynalink AX3600 today, and am hoping that this will work better, but im now curious to why these devices won't connect to a same SSID and password. All routers i tried were wifi 6 enabled, and all smart devices do not have wifi 6. I thought (searched online for it) that it's easy to replace a router, as long as the SSID and password remain the same.
Help would be appriciated. Again, i already tried to reset the wifi of the smartthings hub (and later of a camera) and they failed to connect.
Please run the following commands (copy-paste the whole block) and paste the output here, using the "Preformatted text </> " button:
Remember to redact passwords, MAC addresses and any public IP addresses you may have
Do that on both AX3 and the other router.
You are right that keeping the same SSID and key works fine. It is most likely that your settings are not compatible with some of the smart devices, like wpa3, fast roaming, etc.
Thanks for the quick reply! Where does one execute that command? Tried it on the page of the web interface with the console in my firefox browser, and getting a syntax error.
Some clients are really specific about the connection they've learned to trust, getting confused even about the most minor and trivial differences (and there are rather opaque options, which might be set by proprietary firmwares).
If you're plagued by this, it's usually better to teach them about a new network (different ESSID/ PSK), rather than trying to emulate the specifics of the old one (avoid WPA3, unless you know what you're doing, as many clients don't support it - especially IoT stuff (the esp8266 can't do it)).
That's sad since i have many devices,and also routines connected to them, it probably takes me 6+ hours of constant work to make everything as it was then.
But i will do that then.
