Weird connection drops on 5ghz Wifi GT-AX11000

[ebalsumgo]

I cannot pinpoint the exact firmware upgrade, but it has been done sometime in the last 2-3. Currently running the latest (3004.388.7), and every so often, it is not exactly on a perfect cadence; connection drops for a second on the 5ghz radios (I do not have non-IoT devices connected on the 2.4, so actually have not tested that band to see if it is isolated to 5ghz radios or not). You can see below I usually maintain an auto-reconnect connection to my home server with this path: home->external DNS name->ssh home, though it is irrelevant, I can do a direct local connection, and the same issue is present:

╭─ 12:48:36  boris@zeus  ~ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ✔  192.168.1.76 
╰─❯ Shared connection to router closed.
Last login: Thu Jul 18 07:57:08 2024 from 192.168.1.1
╭─ 15:49:04  boris@zeus  ~ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ✔  192.168.1.76 
╰─❯ Shared connection to router closed.
Last login: Thu Jul 18 15:49:03 2024 from 192.168.1.1
╭─ 18:58:31  boris@zeus  ~ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ✔  192.168.1.76 
╰─❯ Shared connection to router closed.
Last login: Thu Jul 18 18:58:31 2024 from 192.168.1.1
╭─ 22:04:44  boris@zeus  ~ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ✔  192.168.1.76 
╰─❯ Shared connection to router closed.
Last login: Thu Jul 18 22:04:44 2024 from 192.168.1.1
╭─ 03:07:05  boris@zeus  ~ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ✔  192.168.1.76 
╰─❯ Shared connection to router.kurktchiev.me closed.

I have browsed various threads on the forum and have:
- locked the control channel
- disabled key rotation

I have NOT tried:
- Dropping 160hz band+DFS

Weirdly I also had to flat out disable the second 5ghz radio as all clients connected to it would at most achieve 200mb throughput even though there is no interference on 161+ channels anywhere near me, but that feels like more of a red herring potentially.

The 2.4 radio and the 5 are separate SSIDs, no Smart Connect is enabled.

Any thoughts or ideas are welcome.

 

[ebalsumgo]

Just wondering if anyone else has seen similar things or if maybe my unit is in need of a hard reset or something...

 

[jerry6]

when I have weird problems like that a reboot/ reset usually fixes the problems . when was the last time you did a clean install or reset after upgrading the FW ?

 

[ebalsumgo]

yeah reboots do not do anything. I have not done a hard reset and do everything again from scratch since I set up the router last year... was hoping to avoid resetting everything ahahahah