Wi-Fi network problem

Networking & Firewalls
1

Hi, I really don’t know where to ask for help, this is why I’m bothering you all here…

I live in a flat and I have a fiber connection to my pfsense firewall. The firewall has a managed switch and I have some pc wired to it an also a Netgerar router with built in wi-if that is set in access point mode. I use all day long a pc that’s cabled connected to the switch and I don’t have any problems or single packet loss. But with my Wi-Fi devices every night I have to put them in flight mode and reconnect back to my WiFi bucasse suddenly they stop working and not all at the same time…how can I resolve this annoying problem?

2

A guess would be there is something wrong with the Netgear wifi. Try updating the firmware.

3

It should be already up-to-date but I’ll take a look. What can I do if the firmware is already up-to-date? I tried changing WiFi channel but it didn’t help. Living in a flat where there’s a lot of WiFi interference from other apartments is there a preferred channel combination to set the AP?

4

I checked and the firmware is up-to-date…… don’t know what to look for at this point😊 any help?

5

I would if possible see if you can locate another WiFi ap. I had a WiFi problem once it was 100% just a bad ap.

6

Just curious but did you check the wifi router for updates or the Netgear website? I found that while my Netgear Nighthawk MS/MR60 devices said there were no updates available, there were two sitting on the Netgear website, both that mentioned wifi connectivity in the release notes.

7

This sounds like DHCP lease issues actually, if you have to turn off wifi and back on again every day.

Are you sure your wireless router is in ap mode ? Should be plugged in from say port 1 on LAN port of Linksys and then to a switch port, did you disable the DHCP server on the Linksys router ?

8

One of the WiFi Device that’s experiencing the problem has a static ip reserved from the pfsense dhcp server. The wireless router I’m sure it’s working in AP mode and its DHCP server is disabled.
I have to switch off and back on the WiFi on the device (phone or tablets) not at the AP level

9

What kind of device is it ?

10

I have that problem with iPhones and iPads I can’t test a window pc because I don’t have one. Also a Mac book pro when connected via wireless does the same. I think the problem is due to the many WiFi network from other apartments…I think they interfere in some way. If this would be the cause I don’t know how to face the problem….

11

I checked on the official website and for my model D7000 the lates available firmware is 1.0.1.78 and it’s the same firmware I have installed on my device