Weird Issue W/ Nvidia Shield

godreborn · Jul 5, 2020

suddenly, for some reason, I can't connect to 5GHz router ssid. I can 2.4GHz. I don't know if it's a router setting or if it's the shield. I read about people encountering a bug that caused this to happen on the latest version of the software. has this happened to anyone else on here?

Roamin64 · Jul 5, 2020

Does not connect? Can you see the SSID, enter the right password and nothing happens? A quick search showed that the shield tv doesn't support 5 GHz on channels above 50, so a solution is to change your router's to power channels like 36 to 48. Which shield version is it? Can you be more specific when you say can't connect?

I have both 2015 and 2019 shields and my 2015 shield just easily connected to my 5ghz at channel 36. Then I changed the channel to 52 and it took a minute but reconnected and still worked on channel 52.

Could it be you have a old firmware version with a bug? Maybe the bug is router specific (I use a dir-835 with openwrt)? Can you try changing the channel to see if it helps? It definitely works for me although I can't trust wifi, even at 5ghz to stream all the high quality content I want.

godreborn · Jul 5, 2020

yeah, I changed the channel. I think the channel was either 30 or 40. it just suddenly started happening. it can detect the ssid, but it says, "can't find it" after entering the password. I read about this being a common problem, so I don't know if I've encountered a bug that may or may not correct itself. I leave the shield unplugged whenever I'm not using it if that has any effect. my router is a tp-link forgot model number.

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it just connected when I tried it. maybe there was a glitch with the router or the shield.

Little_Anonymous_Hacker · Jul 8, 2020

The WiFi on my 2019 Shield occasionally cuts out, but no other WiFi connection problems yet.

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