Hello all I am somewhat new to the forums.
I recently got a Nexus 7 tablet. The wifi in my house is pretty weak downstairs so I bought a 3700 to use as an additional wireless router with my Fios Actiontec Router upstairs. I set it up per the instructions I saw on the netgear site, disabling the DHCP in the 3700. I gave it the same SSID name and WPA2 security as the fios router so that, hopefully, there would be a seamless switch between the two signals when one my smartphone or tablet moved from upstairs to downstairs and vice versa. The phone or tablet would just switch to the strongest connection.
THe phone does this perfect as does my ipod. The Nexus 7 does not. The Nexus 7 finds the new signal, then it shuts down the Wifi connection, and then after about 10 seconds it reconnects to the stronger signal. Has anyone had any issues like this with other devices? Is there something possibly setup wrong in my settings? Should I just go and assign the Netgear a different SSID and manually switch each time (which I'm trying to avoid doing?)
Thanks!
Brian
I recently got a Nexus 7 tablet. The wifi in my house is pretty weak downstairs so I bought a 3700 to use as an additional wireless router with my Fios Actiontec Router upstairs. I set it up per the instructions I saw on the netgear site, disabling the DHCP in the 3700. I gave it the same SSID name and WPA2 security as the fios router so that, hopefully, there would be a seamless switch between the two signals when one my smartphone or tablet moved from upstairs to downstairs and vice versa. The phone or tablet would just switch to the strongest connection.
THe phone does this perfect as does my ipod. The Nexus 7 does not. The Nexus 7 finds the new signal, then it shuts down the Wifi connection, and then after about 10 seconds it reconnects to the stronger signal. Has anyone had any issues like this with other devices? Is there something possibly setup wrong in my settings? Should I just go and assign the Netgear a different SSID and manually switch each time (which I'm trying to avoid doing?)
Thanks!
Brian