OK after hearing from my wife today that she is was having problems maintaining a good signal in other parts of the house now closer to the router. So I opted to get a good mesh system, which is on its way here. The mesh system I bought can either work in router mode or AP mode. for the time being I will just turn the radios off on the Pano router and connect it to an open port as there is obiviously some sort of issue happening with the WIFI on this thing. To answer all your questions, The 2.4 GHZ is pretty congested but nothing has changed from that since I moved in. As for turning it off an on...yea i did that first and multiple times. I didn't change anything. The TV in question has the ability to automatically switch from 5GHz and 2.4 GHZ. I thought maybe the TV was the problem until other devices started having issues.
I have a relatively large house and as stated do not have the ability to move the router to another room. The router is located in almost the top corner room of a two story which is not ideal but didnt have a choice. I will add though that when I first moved in and hooked it up I tested the signal strength around the house with a few analizer tools I have to see if I were going to need to purchase a mesh or more powerful router. Towards the other end of the house the signal was defanately degraded but where the TV/living room is, the signal on both the 5 and 2.4 GHZ channels were good. so I decided to stick it out with the Pano router and had 0 problems until about a week ago.
Fast-forward to last night when I tested again, the signal strength at the end of the house is now non-existant and the Living room strength is poor for 5G and fair for 2.4G. As if the antenna gain for the WiFi has been turned down. As stated earlier, nothing has changed in the area that I know of. The signal coming into the router and to my wired devices is strong and fast as it should be. The router WiFi is the only thing effected.
I appreciate all the help IDK maybe I recieved a dud, who knows?! There is something going on with it. I am going to try the AP mesh if that doesnt work I will bridge the pano router or just give it back abd buy my own. Sucks that I have to do that but I really have no other logical options at this point
