27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates

Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by embedding-shape on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:35AM (#47074934)

I've had this issue too on older devices, until I made the SSIDs different by suffixing 2ghz and 5ghz to each one. I think I've had it happen both on an older Android and older MacBook but it was a while ago, could be misremembering.

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Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by wtallis on Thursday February 19, 2026 @02:11PM (#47077780)

I think enough of us were running dual-band networks sharing the same SSID back in the day that doing so now cannot be the entire reason for things not working.

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Re:27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and downloa... by yieldcrv on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:57PM (#47079245)

"band steering" implementation from the router side is the issue

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