Issues with Apple devices
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Hi all,
Have been using my Deco M5 mesh kit (2 APs) for a few months and I love it. The wife, however...does not. I am Windows/Android and she is all Apple. Her Macbook constantly takes several seconds to reconnect to the Wifi when coming out of sleep mode. Same thing with her iPhone, which is particularly annoying because we use Chromecast Audio's for our multi-room music setup so when she wants to open her phone to change the volume it can take a full minute or two to reconnect to wifi after which Google Home can re-connect to the Chromecast Audios to be able to adjust the volume.
I would say 9 times out of 10, my Android phone stays connected and does not have this issue. Occasionally I will have to toggle Wifi on and off again on my phone to get it to re-discover the Chromecast devices, not ideal but only happens once every few weeks.
My WIndows laptop stays connected and connects right away out of sleep mode. Her Macbook takes a long time to reconnect when its woken up and will regularly get stuck on the 'Resolving Host' message in Chrome when she is trying to load a web page, usually until the page times out. When she retries a few times eventually it will load.
I have put her devices as 'Priority devices' in the Deco app. Tried creating a new network in case any legacy settings applied to the old wifi name was causing issues, didn't help.
I found another post suggesting I change the DNS servers to a public server which I did, it doesn't help.
I know there is no magic 'make this thing work for OSX/iOS devices' switch, but I can't figure this one out. Is there anybody else with this issue? Any potential solutions? This is driving her nuts and by extension me because I have to hear about it all the time...
Thanks!
