I am having trouble understanding how is it possible that when your router is powered down, the condition (WiFi.status() == WL_CONNECTED) is still true? If this is the case, what if the ping also returns successfully? This doesn’t make sense to me. What firmware version are you on? Note that the auto-reconnect logic was not included in earlier firmwares. I’ve tried two different router, as well as my phone’s WiFi hotspot, as soon as the network is down, WiFi.status() == WL_CONNECTED becomes false. I have not seen a counter example so far.
