The me and the wife and kids are all working/schooling from home so I thought it would be a great time to mess with the network.
I had an RT-AC68U that was working fine except for some range issues on one side of the house. I replaced that with an RT-AX88U and everything seemed to be fine until we realized this morning that my daughter's laptop can't see the router SSID. It can see many other SSIDs in the area, but not the one broadcast by the new router. Many other devices have no issue.
Her laptop is a hand-me-down and is pretty old. I tried the minimal configuration, changing the SSID, and placing the router in legacy mode. Nothing worked. I looked for new drivers (Realtek RTL8188CE) but the circa 2013 drivers are the newest available.
I swapped back to the old router and the laptop saw and connected immediately.
Any thoughts on what might be going on?
I had an RT-AC68U that was working fine except for some range issues on one side of the house. I replaced that with an RT-AX88U and everything seemed to be fine until we realized this morning that my daughter's laptop can't see the router SSID. It can see many other SSIDs in the area, but not the one broadcast by the new router. Many other devices have no issue.
Her laptop is a hand-me-down and is pretty old. I tried the minimal configuration, changing the SSID, and placing the router in legacy mode. Nothing worked. I looked for new drivers (Realtek RTL8188CE) but the circa 2013 drivers are the newest available.
I swapped back to the old router and the laptop saw and connected immediately.
Any thoughts on what might be going on?