Hello all, please can I pick your collective brains?
I have an RT-AX86u router. Two nights ago all of my Alexa's were disconnected from the network, this happens from time to time, so I did what I usually do. I turned all of them off and rebooted the router, I then turn all the Alexa's back on one at a time. All bar my two Dots 4th gen connected. I have tried to reconnect them several time since then but to no avail. Today I decided to take the plunge and put merlin on my router as when I disable wifi6 the 2.4ghz channel does not have any internet but the 5ghz was fine, and I read that flashing with Merlin solves that issue. So now I have just looked at my client list and found that somehow both of the Dost had been blocked from internet access and also my sons PC and I know I had not done it and nobody else has administrative access to the router other than me. What I would like to know is that has anyone else had this issue and if so how is it happening? I found that this latest iteration of the ddwrt firmware seemed buggy randomly loosing wan connection thus requiring a reboot, plus the loss of internet only on the 2.4ghz band was the tipping point to moving on to Merlin firmware.
Thanks in advance for any input.
I have an RT-AX86u router. Two nights ago all of my Alexa's were disconnected from the network, this happens from time to time, so I did what I usually do. I turned all of them off and rebooted the router, I then turn all the Alexa's back on one at a time. All bar my two Dots 4th gen connected. I have tried to reconnect them several time since then but to no avail. Today I decided to take the plunge and put merlin on my router as when I disable wifi6 the 2.4ghz channel does not have any internet but the 5ghz was fine, and I read that flashing with Merlin solves that issue. So now I have just looked at my client list and found that somehow both of the Dost had been blocked from internet access and also my sons PC and I know I had not done it and nobody else has administrative access to the router other than me. What I would like to know is that has anyone else had this issue and if so how is it happening? I found that this latest iteration of the ddwrt firmware seemed buggy randomly loosing wan connection thus requiring a reboot, plus the loss of internet only on the 2.4ghz band was the tipping point to moving on to Merlin firmware.
Thanks in advance for any input.