After reading this yesterday I had a look and my backhaul is dropping to 2.4 as well, "weak signal" with an RSSI of -38, 5 RSSI is normally around -44...Reset last night did not resolve, as I woke up to a 2.4 backhaul. Currently rolling back to 42095It certainly isn’t proving as unreliable as each firmware after 42095 prior, but I am confirming random node dropouts to 2.4ghz on the backhaul after 24-48 hours of uptime. This is with a hard reset of all three units after manual upgrade. This could have causes other than firmware, but was not observed on 42095. I may try swapping the router for another unit to see if that helps.
On the upside I fixed dropouts of 2.4ghz IOT devices with a few tweaks to settings. Will give it another week to try and achieve stability.
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After reading this yesterday I had a look and my backhaul is dropping to 2.4 as well, "weak signal" with an RSSI of -38, 5 RSSI is normally around -44...Reset last night did not resolve, as I woke up to a 2.4 backhaul. Currently rolling back to 42095
It certainly isn’t proving as unreliable as each firmware after 42095 prior, but I am confirming random node dropouts to 2.4ghz on the backhaul after 24-48 hours of uptime. This is with a hard reset of all three units after manual upgrade. This could have causes other than firmware, but was not observed on 42095. I may try swapping the router for another unit to see if that helps.
On the upside I fixed dropouts of 2.4ghz IOT devices with a few tweaks to settings. Will give it another week to try and achieve stability.
I decided not to swap my units or downgrade to 42095 for now, rather I turned off the roaming assistant setting on the 5ghz wireless backhaul. Seems to be stable with no node drops now. Scanning Wifi indicates my neighbours Wifi jumps in on a clashing channel from time to time, so more than likely that is knocking out the backhaul, which drops to 2.4ghz. Turning off roaming assistant stops the dropsIt certainly isn’t proving as unreliable as each firmware after 42095 prior, but I am confirming random node dropouts to 2.4ghz on the backhaul after 24-48 hours of uptime. This is with a hard reset of all three units after manual upgrade. This could have causes other than firmware, but was not observed on 42095. I may try swapping the router for another unit to see if that helps.
On the upside I fixed dropouts of 2.4ghz IOT devices with a few tweaks to settings. Will give it another week to try and achieve stability.
Interesting, Ive always had roaming assistant disabled on backhaul, no issues with dropping to 2.4 until I installed 45898 and none since rolling back to 42095I decided not to swap my units or downgrade to 42095 for now, rather I turned off the roaming assistant setting on the 5ghz wireless backhaul. Seems to be stable with no node drops now. Scanning Wifi indicates my neighbours Wifi jumps in on a clashing channel from time to time, so more than likely that is knocking out the backhaul, which drops to 2.4ghz. Turning off roaming assistant stops the drops
Seems ok for the moment, dirty upgraded from 42095.
Just to confirm, since my manual upgrade to 45898 and hard reset of each node I’ve had no problems whatsoever since turning off roaming assistant on the backhaul, tweaking the 2.4ghz band to fix it, limit it to 20mhz and setting the professional settings as follows:I decided not to swap my units or downgrade to 42095 for now, rather I turned off the roaming assistant setting on the 5ghz wireless backhaul. Seems to be stable with no node drops now. Scanning Wifi indicates my neighbours Wifi jumps in on a clashing channel from time to time, so more than likely that is knocking out the backhaul, which drops to 2.4ghz. Turning off roaming assistant stops the drops
AP mode, 3-4 days running, is stable for 5GHz devices so far. I do have a scheduled reboot every 7 days though. I'm sticking with it for the moment.
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