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paulddraper on Jan 22, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Does It Take So Long to Connect to a WiFi Acce...

Naive question...why does that mess with the network? Your router has the correct MAC <-> IP mapping, and iPhone kid is the only one losing out.

ams6110 on Jan 22, 2017 [–]

Not sure but the correlation of Apple device walking in the door and entire home network hanging is pretty consistent.

I presume the router periodically issues "who has 192.168.1.10" or whatever and upon getting responses from two different MAC address just gives up.

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