Comment on [PSA] Wifi warning on the refurbished OLED decks
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 2 months ago
My white OLED has connection issues to my Unifi 7 Pro AP. So it’s still pretty messy depending on your Wi-Fi setup.
What kind of issues do you have?
You might try disabling some wifi 7 features as well and see if that fixes things. Different routers will have different settings, but some will let you change the wireless mode from BE (wifi 7) to AX (wifi 6) or to AC (wifi 5). If you go to one of the older wifi modes and you still have issues, it may be a defective wi-fi card in the deck.
Random disconnects. Sometimes I leave my Deck downloading something and come back later only to find out that the download stopped (connection timeout or similar errors). Steam switches to offline mode and to fix it I have to turn Wi-Fi off and back on, and sometimes only a full restart does the trick.
Thanks for the troubleshooting tips, but I’d rather not downgrade my home Wi-Fi because of one device having issues. I use many other Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7 devices just fine on that access point and because I access files on a local NAS via wireless devices frequently, I kind of want the performance benefits of (up to) Wi-Fi 7.
Automatic band steering also works great with all other devices, so I’d rather not setup separate Wi-Fi networks for each band. Wi-Fi 7 can bundle bands together anyway, so I’d lose that ability as well.
I’ve read about quite a few people having issues with the OLED and 6E/7 APs, often related to 6 GHz so I’m pretty sure it’s not a defect specific to my device. You got me an idea though: maybe I can blacklist the Steam Deck from the 6 GHz band on my access point, not sure.
I didn’t think you should downgrade permanently, just was suggesting it as a temporary troubleshooting step for narrowing it down.
Twerp10@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Can you separate the 5 and 2.4 bands into separate SSIDs?
Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This is probably the easiest solution, it’s what enabled me to use wireless streaming with my quest 3, with it’s WiFi 6 jankyness