Apologies if this isn't the right place for troubleshooting this, but I came via github and thought this was worth sharing.
The symptom is that my wireless devices started dropping their internet connections in a rather dramatic fashion. Wired devices had no trouble with internet access. Certain wireless devices had no trouble with local network connectivity. In fact, I recently used scp to copy a 3gb file without any issues.
Writing this, it also just occurred to me that I haven't reproduced the issue on a non-Apple product. Two different MacBook Pro models (2013) and an iPhone 6 both had identical trouble at the same time, but a Nintendo Switch seemed to work fine.
The issue also seemed to occur intermittently. A few days passed without any noticeable issue, and suddenly it returned in full force. Stupidly, I didn't confirm that the Nintendo Switch was working while the Apple products were having trouble.
I also have to admit that there's a plot hole in my story, because I recently formatted a partition and as a fair-weather router person, I'm confused by the release versioning. I know that I installed whatever the latest stable release would have been on January 22, 2018, but I don't actually have the file. Looking at the download page, it looks like the legacy 380.xx_y has been getting updates along with 38x.y_z, so my best guess is that 382.1_2 is the firmware that was giving me intermittent trouble, based on the assumption that I would've gotten the latest major stable release.
However, I just upgraded to 384.3_0 stable in an attempt to fix it, and the symptom continued. This persisted through a factory reset, though I didn't do a hardware power cycle.
I noticed this thread and it's unfortunate that OP lost his cool because the Wifi symptoms he describes sound pretty similar to what I was experiencing. I don't have a deep knowledge of these routers, but I think the AC88U is the same as the AC3100, and I don't know if those behave similarly to the AC3200. Regardless, it seemed related.
Anyway I figured I'd just downgrade to 380.69_2 and sure enough the problem went away immediately. So I don't actually have a problem since I'm perfectly happy running that firmware, but I figured I'd leave this here.
Thank you to everyone who works on these releases and helps out in the forum. You've done a very good thing and I appreciate it!
The symptom is that my wireless devices started dropping their internet connections in a rather dramatic fashion. Wired devices had no trouble with internet access. Certain wireless devices had no trouble with local network connectivity. In fact, I recently used scp to copy a 3gb file without any issues.
Writing this, it also just occurred to me that I haven't reproduced the issue on a non-Apple product. Two different MacBook Pro models (2013) and an iPhone 6 both had identical trouble at the same time, but a Nintendo Switch seemed to work fine.
The issue also seemed to occur intermittently. A few days passed without any noticeable issue, and suddenly it returned in full force. Stupidly, I didn't confirm that the Nintendo Switch was working while the Apple products were having trouble.
I also have to admit that there's a plot hole in my story, because I recently formatted a partition and as a fair-weather router person, I'm confused by the release versioning. I know that I installed whatever the latest stable release would have been on January 22, 2018, but I don't actually have the file. Looking at the download page, it looks like the legacy 380.xx_y has been getting updates along with 38x.y_z, so my best guess is that 382.1_2 is the firmware that was giving me intermittent trouble, based on the assumption that I would've gotten the latest major stable release.
However, I just upgraded to 384.3_0 stable in an attempt to fix it, and the symptom continued. This persisted through a factory reset, though I didn't do a hardware power cycle.
I noticed this thread and it's unfortunate that OP lost his cool because the Wifi symptoms he describes sound pretty similar to what I was experiencing. I don't have a deep knowledge of these routers, but I think the AC88U is the same as the AC3100, and I don't know if those behave similarly to the AC3200. Regardless, it seemed related.
Anyway I figured I'd just downgrade to 380.69_2 and sure enough the problem went away immediately. So I don't actually have a problem since I'm perfectly happy running that firmware, but I figured I'd leave this here.
Thank you to everyone who works on these releases and helps out in the forum. You've done a very good thing and I appreciate it!
