AE Roaming WiFi Issues: HELP! About to break something!
So I have 300Mbps from Brighthouse here in the Orlando area.
I have a 5,400SQFT home with 6 bedrooms and 4.5 baths and a office and theater room. Because of the size of my house I had to get the MoCA service that Brighthouse offers called Echo.
I have my cable modem and 3 Actiontek access points... all capable of broadcasting in 2.4GHz and 5GHz.
I bought 4 new Airport Extremes because they allow Mac products to roam better as they are aggressive in searching for best signal while without the Airport Extremes it seems they are not and will just wait to lose signal or barely having any before re-establishing a better connection. All four are set to bridge mode as suggested here on the forums.
Anyways, I have WiFi disabled on the cable modem and on all three Actiontek access points and I have an Airport Extreme connected via ethernet behind each device.
I can be hardwired to each device just fine and it all works great. However, when I'm on the Airport Extreme's WiFi the connection to the internet drops for some reason. I have two terminal windows running and one is running "ping 8.8.8.8" and the other is running "ping 192.168.0.1". The first address is Google's DNS server and the second is my router.
I never lose the ability to ping my router, but whenever I do lose connection to the internet I look at the Google DNS ping terminal and the pings are timing out and airport utility shows the internet globe as orange while all Airport Extremes have a green light.
I am very tired of this because if I am in the middle of a game or something I lose connection and it seems to be happening more often. The only way I can see to fix it is to jump from the 5GHz to the 2.4GHz band or vice versa OR to turn WiFi off on my Macbook's and then turn it back on and the pings start running through again just fine. This problem is occurring on my 2014 Macbook Pro Retina and my 2015 Macbook (12").
Does anyone have any suggestions!?
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)