XT8 Disconnects and high pings on 42095.

[CarsonL]

Hi guys,

I have 2 XT8 running on 3.0.0.4.386_42095-g30cf4ad with the manufacturing year of late 2021. The consistency of the wireless backhaul is awful still tends to get disconnects even with -68 dbm to -75 dbm on the wireless backhaul which is hidden and not under DFS channels.

Even during a NTP update (every 24 hours), it will subsequently disconnects everything on the node and proceed to have no internet. Or once it connects back, it will proceed to disconnect it after 3 minutes then only comes back after reconnecting again. Not to mention, the node seems to get very very high pings even during a Zoom call which is irritating and frustrating. Can't return this product and can't possibly upgrade it as it is still very new.

Anyone can figure out what's the issue and how to solve this?

Additional info :
Using Fibre under Maxis (I live in Malaysia). Usual pings are 3-4ms back to the ISP with 300 mbps down and 50 up.

Using iPhone 13, iPad Air 4th Gen and ROG Zephyrus G14 with a MediaTek wireless AX card.

 

[CarsonL]

Also sometimes it can get these kinds of errors.

 

[tgl]

-68dBm is not a great signal level. If you can reposition the node to see -60dBm or better signal from the primary, you'll probably find that that improves matters. Otherwise maybe it's time to look into wired backhaul.

 

[CarsonL]

-68dBm is not a great signal level. If you can reposition the node to see -60dBm or better signal from the primary, you'll probably find that that improves matters. Otherwise maybe it's time to look into wired backhaul.

A wired backhaul is not possible for me, and also I cannot get the dbm lower than what I stated above.

 

[RogerSC]

A wired backhaul is not possible for me, and also I cannot get the dbm lower than what I stated above.

If it were me, I'd be thinking about adding another node, given the -68 to -75dBm between the router and node that you quoted. Just a thought, though. Not sure that would solve all the problems that you're seeing.

 

[CarsonL]

If it were me, I'd be thinking about adding another node, given the -68 to -75dBm between the router and node that you quoted. Just a thought, though. Not sure that would solve all the problems that you're seeing.

It doesn't seem like adding more = better as Asus software is quite buggy still.

 

[CarsonL]

Anyone?

 

[jelaware]

Anyone?

What's with the weird firmware version? My XT8 is running 9.0.0.4.386.46980
Skip the latest one (48706), it has serious bugs as reported on reddit

 

[CarsonL]

What's with the weird firmware version? My XT8 is running 9.0.0.4.386.46980
Skip the latest one (48706), it has serious bugs as reported on reddit

and is it okay???