As an employee of the big red checkmark company above (I'm in Corp
Finance, not remotely close to Tech Support), you have a few issues on
your WiFi for that router.

It's one of a handful of things, they'll all require you to do some
Googling. Keep in mind, you're trying to mate a relatively new Actiontec
product with a 10+ year old wireless chipset. We've had a lot of changes
in the past few years. 

The biggest two I've found in new equipment is 802.11R and WPA3/WPA2
hybrid network security. I'm not sure where Actiontec buried each
setting, but a quick Google search should find both for you. 802.11R
could be labeled as Fast Handoff/Fast Roaming, it pre-fetches data as
you move between nodes, and handles moving/offloading between WAPs in a
theoretically faster manner than without it. I've got a relatively
robust Ubiquiti network running around here, and I've shut it off. No
performance delta across multiple buildings in my home and
inside/outside. I'm sure if I were in say an arena, with hundreds of APs
it might help, but with a residential network that is heavily used, it
offered no noticable performance gain for the headaches it caused.

My Boom and Radios (which you have) stopped connecting; the Wifi chipset
in there (An Atheros AR2413A/AR5005G/AR5BMB5 Mini PCI) can be had with
firmware that supports 802.11R, but bluntly, it isn't worth it. Ask how
I know... 

Here are a few breadcrumbs for you, Google around, it should get you the
info you need:

https://forums.verizon.com/t5/Fios-Internet/Printer-Gives-an-Authentication-Error-when-SON-is-Active/td-p/902850

If I were you, I'd switch you r network security to WPA2/PSK, from
WPA3/WPA2, and turn off Fast Roaming/802.11R. The re-enable each one,
one at a time, until the radios break again. You've found your problem.

Actiontec also has really robust logging inside the router; poke around
in there and read them. It will tell you precisely when/where the unit
is having issues handshaking with the Radio and Boom. My issues have
never been with WiFi6, it's always fallen back to a the aforementioned
protocols above.


Good luck.


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