Radio dropping out periodically

[billsey]

I had to type this twice, since it was so kind as to drop signal just as I tried to post the last one...

My Almond+, running firmware AP2-R072-L009-W016-ZW016-ZB005 is cycling the radio between full power (four to five bars on this system) and no power (one bar or no bars, either way the connection is dropped) every few minutes. I'm running 11NGHT40 on the 2.4 GHz band with channel 9 (automatically selected). My WiFi analyzer shows close to -50 signal level when I'm seeing good signal, for both the main SSID and the Guest SSID, and essentially zero when it drops out. Competing systems in the area include one on channel 1 with -70 signal strength, one on channel 3 and one on channel 5, both in the -90 signal range, there's another at channel 6 but it's got less signal strength than those.

Any idea what's going on?

[Deleted]

How far away from the router are you? Is there anything in between or are you line of sight?

I was having similar issues on my setup, but only on my iPad when I was upstairs or in a certain room in the house.  I tried everything to make it work.  Finally, I got an android device and WIFIFOFUM.  I discovered that it turns out I had ducting throughout my house that was affecting the reliability.  When I was upstairs on my bed, I would see the signal drop and come back on about a one-two minute cycle.  Using SpeedTest I would see the speed change dramatically.  Off my bed, the signal was much more stable with much better results. 

I ended up adding an upstairs router which covers all the dead-zones in my house. 

Hope this helps.

[billsey]

I'm less that twenty feet from the router, and almost line of sight through a corridor that just blocks. The 5GHz signal is steady, the 2.4GHz cycles. The picture shows the cycling using inSSIDer. I captured a video, but it doesn't look like I can attach that here...