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Chromecasts intermittently visible on Arcadyan gateway router LAN with TELUS Boost Wi-Fi extenders
It appears that chromecasts are not working on my TELUS network primarily due to multiple access point and possibly the multiple wi-fi bands being "AP Isolated". This means that when you want to see...
I just figured this out yesterday, swapped my fiber back over to my action Tech t3200m and said to heck with it. My smart lights, my smart plugs, my cameras, chromecasts, everything runs on 2.4ghz. except our phones and laptops so good luck setting up a 2.4 GHz device from a 5 GHz device. I thought the hub was broken at first, so I got Telus to swap it out with a new one, only to have the same issue. This band isolation feature is not a good idea yet, too many devices still rely on 2.4ghz. Which wouldn't be a problem if it could hand off the connection from 5 to 2.4ghz but that's where the issue lies. I would go to set up a Chromecast with my phone and it would fail when "teaching" the Chromecast the wifi name and password (handing off from 5ghz to 2.4ghz so the devices can be on the same frequency. So I disabled smart steering on my t3200m and now I have a 5ghz connection for most of the time, and I can manually switch over to 2.4ghz when I need to, and my smart devices can all stay connected to the 2.4ghz all the time.
I got my 2.4ghz only smartbulbs set up on the Arcadyan wifi hub by enabling Wi-Fi > Smart Device Network. It creates an unbroadcasted 2.4ghz network so you could manually connect your phone/other set-up device to that and set up anything that requires a 2.4ghz network that way. It's been working fine for my bulbs.
