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lordhamster

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Earlier this year, I moved into a 4,200 sqft house which had cat 5e going to every bedroom. Naturally, I bought an entire Ubiquiti setup with a Ubiquiti Nano HD (4x4 mimo) AP wired in each room and an outdoor access point outside. :) Anything worth doing is worth OVER doing.



Works great except for ONE location. For some reason, in my master bedroom suite's bath. When positioned on the counter in this room, my 1st gen iPad Pro 12.9 will frequently suddenly drop wifi (despite having a full-blast 5G connection). Oddly, it does NOT auto-reconnect again after dropping.... rather it will set there disconnected indefinitely. If I go back to the wifi menu, it searches for wifi, and of course finds my SSID and shows a full blast connection.

Speed tests from this location yield 400-530mbps download throughput. I've had the same phenomenon happen on my iPhone XS Max in the same location but otherwise nothing else is exhibiting this behavior anywhere else in the house.



Not sure if it is the iPad (which I've re-formatted), or my network.



Some facts.



  1. I use a Ubiquiti USG 4P

  2. Two Ubiquiti POE switches (16 port 150W, 8 port 150W),

  3. 9 Ubiquiti Access points (5 Nano HD, 1 AP AC in wall (for garage), 2 AP HD, 1 AP AC Mesh Pro) this setup gives me full coverage in basement, garage, all rooms and outbuilding.


Everything is set to Low power for 2.4Ghz and "high" for 5ghz.... which is my #1 suspect for causing the issue. Perhaps I should crank down the 5G power? I've also got 5G band steering on (which I also suspect could be an issue).





This issue is causing me to rip my hair out. ESPECIALLY the iPad's refusal to re-connect itself without human intervention.

Help!
 
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