Hi!

After a few hickups (got great help here!), I have my ER706W running now smoothly (still in "testing mode" beside my ISP's router, within it's DMZ and double NAT, once everything works I'll bridge that one), but encountered one problem with band steering:

If I set band steering to "prefer 5 GHz", which is the desired setup, and my phone is too far from the AP/router and the 5GHz signal gets too weak, it would disconnet and switch to my mobile internet, not roaming to the 2.4GHz band. I enabled already RSSI to -80 dBm and -75 dBm, but same behaviour, at a certain point 5GHz drops, but 2.4GHz does not connect automatically, but does so only when manually connecting on the phone (Pixel 8). Both bands use the same SSID.

When I disable band steering, mostly it would connect to the 2.4GHz band and not move over to 5GHz, which in the end isn't optimal, but still better then just dropping the connection as described above.

Any hint in the right direction what I would need to do? I try to avoid having separate SSIDs per band (also, in this case how would the phone prefer the 5kHz SSID if available?).

Of course the best solution would be adding 1-2 AP to improve 5GHz coverage, this is already planned but might need to wait a bit until I can wire them together. And I guess even then might be at a certain point the limit where 5GHz isn't viable anymore but 2.4GHz works still fine...

I am using the latest controller version (on Debian). I had ran WLAN Optimization a few times, but I guess with only a single AP, this can do only that much...