Hub Manager Wireless Channels

[andreaferns120472]

In Hub Manager 192.168.1.254, under Wireless Channels do I need to rescan to get the best wi-fi connection every few weeks or should I just leave the settings as they are?

At the moment they are set to 2.4GHz Smart (Channel1) and 5GHz Smart (Channel 36)

[gg30340]

Unless you have a specific problem of the channel being heavily congested with other users  just leave them as they are.

[imjolly]

if you have SKY Q which uses channel 36 I would change the 5ghz channel to either 44/48

[andreaferns120472]

I do have Sky Q and I have changed channel to 44  (5ghz)  Why does this need to be changed?

[imjolly]

the hub and SKYQ in same vicinity both using channel 36 can cause normally the SKYQ to have connection problems. so changing avoids that problem.  I have SKYQ and not had any drops of connection since changing

[andreaferns120472]

I followed your advice and changed the channel (5GHz) from 36 to 44.  However since doing this none of our  apple devices could connect to our wi-fi.

So after this I had to do a factory reset on the Smart Hub 2, so all our apple devices could connect again to our wi-fi.

This was a real pain as I had to enter admin password again on all our devices and I had to enter  all the Port Forwarding Rules I had set up for Fortnite.

So unfortunately your advice was incorrect!

[gg30340]

See message 2.

[licquorice]

No idea why your Apple devices wouldn't connect, if the hub was left as default in Smart Wireless mode, the WiFi channels could be changing all the time without you even being aware of it.

[imjolly]

@andreaferns120472 

sorry but changing channel away from SKYQ is the right thing to do and as already posted changing wifi channel should have no affect on existing devices as 'smart wifi' does this automatically.  the problem is your apple devices - did other devices connect as expected?  did you try just restarting your apple devices?  I would add that I also have numerous apple devices which connected without any problems

[andreaferns120472]

Hi there, our laptops were able to connect just not Apple Devices.  I had to reset hub back to factory settings then everything connected to wi-fi.  I will try again 🙂