My 950xl is messing with my router.

[cicero goncalves]

OK guys I have a very weird problem. Every time I connect my 950 XL to my wifi network it completely disables my router. I mean the router becomes unusable, even then the wired connections stop working. Is anyone else having this issue? Does anyone know what might be causing?

 

[rkamp]

Are you connecting to a 2.4 GHz network or a 5 GHz network? There are major problems with 5 GHz Wifi connections.

 

[cicero goncalves]

I have been using a mix network but ill disable the 5ghz and try it again.

 

[MaulerX]

Is it a dual band router?

 

[TexasLabRat]

my guess for root cause is that the AC code is buggy on the phone and is freaking out a lot of routers that don't have good exception handling in their code. One solution *might* be to lock out AC capabilities on your router to restrict it to only N and see if that helps.

 

[cicero goncalves]

Well, I still have to do some more tests but locking the router into 2.4Ghz did the trick. ill try it for a little longer and update this post.

 

[horseybob]

I've got an Asus AC-68U and a 950XL and have had it connected to 5GHz since 11/25/15 without issue. Went that route to avoid typical 2.4 issues. Only issue seen to date is that occasionally I'll see that I could get an extra bar by switching back to 2.4.

Zero major or minor issues. Get a new router. It'll cost way less than your phone, and speed things up, too!

 

[pdch]

Make sure your mobile hot spot name is not the same as your wireless network name. Also, turn off wifi sense and see what happens. I have had mine on both my 2.4 and 5ghz bands (normally use 5) with absolutely no problems. My router is an amped wireless Athena.

 

[rkamp]

I'm having the problem on Netgear R7000 router with the latest version of firmware. Connecting the Lumia 950 XL to the 5 GHz networking will cause the phone to randomly soft boot (to a point where the phone becomes unusable).. Using the 2.4 GHz network, I have had solid connections and no rebooting for 4 days.

 

[sarcasticWeasel]

OK guys I have a very weird problem. Every time I connect my 950 XL to my wifi network it completely disables my router. I mean the router becomes unusable, even then the wired connections stop working. Is anyone else having this issue? Does anyone know what might be causing?

I have also had this happen, starting almost immediately after I got my new phones home. I am trying limiting them to only the 2.4Ghz and so far it seems better. I hope they get his fixed.

 

[JettleMania]

I have also had this happen, starting almost immediately after I got my new phones home. I am trying limiting them to only the 2.4Ghz and so far it seems better. I hope they get his fixed.

Gosh, I can remember back to getting my first iPhone... the 3s...? It did the same thing to my Netgear router--swapped it out for an Apple Airport and never looked back. That said, I've since moved to Windows and have not experienced this issue, not even with the 950xl.

 

[lotfico]

cicero goncalves:

I hope you are doing well. I have the exact same issue. We even asked our ISP to provide a new router as the last think I thought about was the 950 XL. From the day I have brought the device to office, the wireless connection on router completely shuts down & the router needs to get powered off, we go on for 15 minutes & then again wireless turns off. My wired connection works however & I would appreciate any feedback.