Wifi not visible for wifi 4 device when in all mixed mode
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Hello.
Recently replaced my old router with ax73.
I have an old laptop Dell latitude e7240
I used smart connect but the WiFi was not visible on my old dell.
What I was able to figure out that this settings are causing problems.
802.11b/g/n/ax mixed
When I disable Smart connect and isolated 2.4 GHz wifi it becomes visible when switching to old b/g/n
802.11b/g/n mixed
So the problem is I would like to avoid separated wifi 4 network and use smart connect.
Regards
Chris
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Hi,
if you cant use smart connect, you have to set same SSID and password on 2.4 and 5 GHz.
So you can configure the bands like you want and your clients will roam and use the best band for the device.
Also take a look to the WLAN security options.
Hope this will help...
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Hello.
Not sure You understood my doubts.
I would love to use smart connect but i cannot.
Simply because when wifi is set to 802.11b/g/n/ax mixed, my device that is 'n' (wifi-4) capable does not see the network.
So i need to use 802.11 b/g/n setup to be able to connect wifi-4 device to it.
My thinking is that when i use 802.11b/g/n/ax mixed mode when device is 'wifi-4' it should also see the network (the negotiation on b/g/n/ac/ax is between device and router)
The security options is not an issue in that case. I use WPA3-Personal+WPA2-PSK[AES]
So to summarize.
The problem is the mode 802.11b/g/n/ax mixed that is not supporting wifi-4 (n) device. Or at least the wifi is not visible on the device when in this mode.
So i have to somehow limit 2.4 frequency to b/g/n speed what is pretty bad.
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Hi,
yes, you are right, it should see the channel.
.But if you dont have any ax device, and have trouble with it, you can go with b/g/n at 2.4 GHz.
When you use same SSID, password and security on the 2 bands it is pretty the same like SmartConnect.
I use it with Re300 in OneMesh. This device is WIFI 5 dualband, and i have also trouble with 2.4 GHz in b/g/n/ax mixed mode.
I had to setup the AX73 like a WIFI5 device and WPA2 only in both bands (RE300V1 don`t like WPA3) to get OneMesh working with RE300V1.
But OneMesh is another part and more things have to fit.
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Yeah thx.
I have only one WiFi-4 device.
This is what I did exactly so I reserved 2.4ghz for it.
And yeah this is exactly the pain I have with it. So I had slow down and separate frequency for only one device.
Not sure since I'm not the expert in WiFi but it looks like a bug for me.
It should see and negotiate own WiFi standard for wifi-4 and still be able to handle higher WiFi standards on same frequency
This was exactly the case with my previous Asus router
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Hello @clydzik
I personally don't agree that there is a bug in the Archer AX73. As stated by aTOMic1971 that the wifi 4 device should be able to see the 802.11b/g/n/ax mixed signal, I would suggest you google online to check if there are any suggestions provided by Dell support, as I can see some feedback when searching 'dell latitude e7240 cannot connect to wifi 6', you can check if you can update the driver or reinstall it, then check again if it can see the wifi 6 signal.
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Thanks.
That so correct and yeah obviously I should try update drivers first. Since it can a bug in there on old laptop.
I wrongly assumed that if it worked with WiFi-5 router it should also here.
Unfortunately after updating the drivers nothing changed.
Regards
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