Hi,
I've been having significant issues with this for a while and nothing seems to work.
I have a streamer which is about 10 y.o. It uses the first generation of Airplay exclusively with the 802.11n protocol and accepts both 2.4G and 5G bands. The firmware is updated to the last version (7.8.1). I stream iTunes, Youtube, etc... from my iPad. Unfortunately, there is no customer support or forum I can find to help my with this particular streamer (Micromega WM10).
With my router set on the 5G band and channel 52, everything works flawlessly. Unfortunately since last December, my router will not stay on channel 52 (which is a DFS channel). My ISP changed a few things and unfortunately, I can not manually select DFS channels on my router any longer. What I had to do was to call them so they can change it remotely, which they did, but unfortunately, "something" happens within 48 hours, sometimes just a couple of hours, where I get automatically booted off this channel to another one (usually 157). For some reason, my streamer doesn't like this channel at all and doesn't pick up anything. I have tried every channels available (on the 5G band, it's 36 to 48 as well as all channels on the 2.4G band) and they will work for a few minutes and then the connection drops for about 10 seconds and comes back. This is very very very annoying. My router is in the same room as the streamer and the connection is excellent (wifi throughout my whole condo is very good, no dead zone, no problem).
I tried the following:
-Reset router to factory settings
-Tried a different router
-Reset streamer (Airport Utility says it's working fine)
-Tried every single available channels available on both bands
-Separated or unified bands
-Tried streaming from iPhone or PC
-Every hardware/software involved are up to date with Firmware, etc...
I was thinking of running my router in bridge mode and get another modem to use DFS channels but after doing some research, it seems like other people have a similar issue... (I'm in Canada and while these DFS channels here are available, I guess it's only in theory because now they get switched automatically to a non DFS channel). Using a DFS channel was a band aid solution it turns out.
Is there anything I can configure in my router and/or streamer that would fix this?
After resetting the Streamer, I configured it by using the option to "join an existing network" (which is the recommended method in the manual). I tried the other option which is to "Create a New Network" but that didn't work at all, possibly because I'm not sure what addresses I should use for this type of config or how this works in general.
Using my router portal (10.0.0.1) there are many things I can configure but I do not know what does what (DNS, DHCP, etc...). Is there a type of "unique" connection I can make between the router and streamer?
I've been having significant issues with this for a while and nothing seems to work.
I have a streamer which is about 10 y.o. It uses the first generation of Airplay exclusively with the 802.11n protocol and accepts both 2.4G and 5G bands. The firmware is updated to the last version (7.8.1). I stream iTunes, Youtube, etc... from my iPad. Unfortunately, there is no customer support or forum I can find to help my with this particular streamer (Micromega WM10).
With my router set on the 5G band and channel 52, everything works flawlessly. Unfortunately since last December, my router will not stay on channel 52 (which is a DFS channel). My ISP changed a few things and unfortunately, I can not manually select DFS channels on my router any longer. What I had to do was to call them so they can change it remotely, which they did, but unfortunately, "something" happens within 48 hours, sometimes just a couple of hours, where I get automatically booted off this channel to another one (usually 157). For some reason, my streamer doesn't like this channel at all and doesn't pick up anything. I have tried every channels available (on the 5G band, it's 36 to 48 as well as all channels on the 2.4G band) and they will work for a few minutes and then the connection drops for about 10 seconds and comes back. This is very very very annoying. My router is in the same room as the streamer and the connection is excellent (wifi throughout my whole condo is very good, no dead zone, no problem).
I tried the following:
-Reset router to factory settings
-Tried a different router
-Reset streamer (Airport Utility says it's working fine)
-Tried every single available channels available on both bands
-Separated or unified bands
-Tried streaming from iPhone or PC
-Every hardware/software involved are up to date with Firmware, etc...
I was thinking of running my router in bridge mode and get another modem to use DFS channels but after doing some research, it seems like other people have a similar issue... (I'm in Canada and while these DFS channels here are available, I guess it's only in theory because now they get switched automatically to a non DFS channel). Using a DFS channel was a band aid solution it turns out.
Is there anything I can configure in my router and/or streamer that would fix this?
After resetting the Streamer, I configured it by using the option to "join an existing network" (which is the recommended method in the manual). I tried the other option which is to "Create a New Network" but that didn't work at all, possibly because I'm not sure what addresses I should use for this type of config or how this works in general.
Using my router portal (10.0.0.1) there are many things I can configure but I do not know what does what (DNS, DHCP, etc...). Is there a type of "unique" connection I can make between the router and streamer?
