Zonkd
Very Senior Member
Today I realised we have been getting random WiFi dropouts on 2 different AC86U's that reside in 2 different households since upgrading them both to 384.6. It first became apparent because Apple TV's and PS4's were disconnecting disrupting Netflix and late night online gaming sessions aggravating a lot of people. Now I've been paying attention it seems to be affecting all devices, though most of them reconnect quickly enough that it won't be a problem. The Apple Tv's cope, but PS4's can't handle it and crash online games.
I've definitely tried everything else; doing factory resets and initialising, clean firmware flashing, flushing nvram, simply using all default settings. I see nothing weird in the system logs.
I decided to abandon ship and flash one of the 86's back to the official firmware. Note I used the latest Firmware version 3.0.0.4.384.32797 rather than the version it originally shipped with. The problem still exists.
My next step will be reverting 1 router to the original firmware version it shipped with 3.0.0.4.382_15098 and see if that fixes it.
Has anyone else seen these Wifi problems and what might be causing it? It can't be an isolated problem because it's happening to 2 different models in 2 completely different households.
I've definitely tried everything else; doing factory resets and initialising, clean firmware flashing, flushing nvram, simply using all default settings. I see nothing weird in the system logs.
I decided to abandon ship and flash one of the 86's back to the official firmware. Note I used the latest Firmware version 3.0.0.4.384.32797 rather than the version it originally shipped with. The problem still exists.
My next step will be reverting 1 router to the original firmware version it shipped with 3.0.0.4.382_15098 and see if that fixes it.
Has anyone else seen these Wifi problems and what might be causing it? It can't be an isolated problem because it's happening to 2 different models in 2 completely different households.