On Fri, 2024-05-24 at 11:02 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
This smells of Captive Portal and MAC Randomizations.
I had a ISP-supplied router that behaved that way. I'd continuously have to re-authenticate my phone with it. And I don't mean while going around the house using it, you could spend hours in one spot just reading the web a few metres away from the router, and it'd drop connection on you again and again. I stopped using it, it was such a pain.
This kind of authentication thing is made worse in a home, because these days there are so many things connected via WiFi that don't have a browser, there's no way for them to re-authenticate themselves.