Hello Merlin Gang,
I noticed the other day that a MU-MIMO setting, which I thought was enabled by default, was actually disabled by default. When I was researching routers about a year or two ago "MU-MIMO" seemed to be a really HOT buzz word that everyone was talking about it. If you bought a new router and it didn't have that, you f'ked up! So I bought the AX88U because it had all the cool features I'd been researching. MU-MIMO seemed like a cool feature and that it would boost performance! I thought it was just something the router *did* on it's own. I didn't realize it was a setting that I had to enable.
Anyways, I found it the other day and enabled it in my router and rebooted. I switched it to "DL/UL OFDMA + MU-MIMO" and thought I'd be set and ready to experience the benefits of the router being able to stream data more efficiently and to multiple hosts simultaneously. But there's just one problem: It broke the casting ability of my LG smart TV.
I sometimes cast Youtube from my android phone to my TV, and usually the TV just shows up when I click the cast button. The other night, I went to cast something, and it wasn't there. I tried closing the app, turning off the TV, nothing. Then I remembered that setting. I went and disabled it, and boom it worked again.
Anyone know why that would happen? I'm not sure what network protocols the LG TV use to show up on the network as TV that you can cast to, perhaps UPnP or something else. But it clearly was broken by the setting that I had turned on. I'm fine leaving it off, but if that setting is designed to increase the performance of the network, I wish it would work.
I noticed the other day that a MU-MIMO setting, which I thought was enabled by default, was actually disabled by default. When I was researching routers about a year or two ago "MU-MIMO" seemed to be a really HOT buzz word that everyone was talking about it. If you bought a new router and it didn't have that, you f'ked up! So I bought the AX88U because it had all the cool features I'd been researching. MU-MIMO seemed like a cool feature and that it would boost performance! I thought it was just something the router *did* on it's own. I didn't realize it was a setting that I had to enable.
Anyways, I found it the other day and enabled it in my router and rebooted. I switched it to "DL/UL OFDMA + MU-MIMO" and thought I'd be set and ready to experience the benefits of the router being able to stream data more efficiently and to multiple hosts simultaneously. But there's just one problem: It broke the casting ability of my LG smart TV.
I sometimes cast Youtube from my android phone to my TV, and usually the TV just shows up when I click the cast button. The other night, I went to cast something, and it wasn't there. I tried closing the app, turning off the TV, nothing. Then I remembered that setting. I went and disabled it, and boom it worked again.
Anyone know why that would happen? I'm not sure what network protocols the LG TV use to show up on the network as TV that you can cast to, perhaps UPnP or something else. But it clearly was broken by the setting that I had turned on. I'm fine leaving it off, but if that setting is designed to increase the performance of the network, I wish it would work.
