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One auto update they broke my laptop's ability to connect. Turns out they'd auto enabled 5 GHz band steering, but my laptop's chipset only did 2.4 GHz. Even whe
by mikelward 6y ago
One auto update they broke my laptop's ability to connect. Turns out they'd auto enabled 5 GHz band steering, but my laptop's chipset only did 2.4 GHz. Even when it was enabled, the Android management app said the setting was disabled.
Customer support directed me to the forums. Ubiquiti didn't respond to my post. I posted on a thread where someone else was seeing the same problem, where a number of people gaslit me and blamed me for the problem.
I still have no idea if they've fixed their band steering. Or how they decided to force 5 GHz on a 2.4 GHz chipset. Or how to get support. Or how to report a problem.
Definitely won't be buying their products in future.
https://community.ui.com/questions/Intel-Centrino-2200-N-client-cant-connect-due-to-Optimize-for-High-Performance-Devices-setting/af79e64c-978d-49bb-a61d-9fe025a725ed https://community.ui.com/questions/Intel-Centrino-2200-N-cli...
https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Network-Controller-5-12-35/45726736-ee4c-4172-877a-a2303f5d3627?page=10 https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Network-Controller-5...
https://community.ui.com/questions/Default-AUTO-OPTIMIZE-NETWORK-off/4605b0fb-52e6-4793-8e01-514b6fb39b44 https://community.ui.com/questions/Default-AUTO-OPTIMIZE-NET...
- SkyPuncher 6y agoHoly crap! This must be what I'm dealing with. I have an old laptop that I was trying to fire up to run some lightweight games on. I could not get it to connect to wi-fi for the life of me. Must be the band steering.
- bmurphy1976 6y agoWe have 5 ubiquiti switches on our office network that are running 4 year old firmware. The next version after started dropping DHCP packets! I followed the thread for months and months and they never fixed the issue. I gave up caring, stopped watching the thread and swore never to buy any of their products again. I do wonder if they ever fixed the issue. The switches lock up every couple months and need a hard reboot. We also had all sorts of problems with their APs and switched over to Cisco Meraki. As much as I hate Cisco and their ridiculous cost at least the Meraki line works. Obnoxious.
- dkdk8283 6y agoI got bitten by the same problem. There is a workaround but the bug is silly!