There must be another solution here.
I cannot believe that URC would sell a product with the wifi so poorly implemented. Proper roaming is an essential part of a wifi network; there is no reason it should completely lose signal and fail before it searches for a stronger AP.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Wow. Have you been on the URC forums recently? Have you installed a TRC-1280 for TC? The first generation of these failed miserably. They were completely terrible at holding onto a wifi signal. They could not distinguish between a network that had wpa/wpa2 running at the same time or if your passcode accepted both tkip and aes encryption. The MX5000 which is the footprint and chasis the 1280 is based off of doesn't even support Wireless-N 2.4. And it's still being sold as the modern line!
The DMS-AV from URC has has repeated, documented, massive problems with its NIC causing unit after unit to be DOA in the field right along with the 1280s that are supposed to control them. If you do the TINIEST bit of research you will see that URC has historically released product ahead of its ready date and that their greatest problems with device failure has been poorly implemented Wifi.
And this is coming from a URC fan boy. I have a TC system personally, dozens of whole house systems in the field, and a TC system running my whole showroom along with lights and climate. However, I am not going to pretend that I haven't made probably 50+ calls to tech support to solve these network issues that end up being hardware failure and poor implementation.
The other thing you need to remember is that the MX6000 came out in 2008. Do you know what else came out around that time? The original iphone. I still have my first gen iphone. It connects POORLY to my modern network. My iphone 3gs connects slightly better. Side by side they see totally different signal strengths in the same network. However, my current iPhone 5s has no problems at all. You are dealing with 6 year old technology. How do you expect it to work? That's like asking why your Canon camera from 2006 only supports 5 mp and a modern canon gets 24. Technology changes. Don't dump money into old tech.