› UKTH forums › ๐ Wireless Routers & Modems › ASUS & Wireless › ASUS ZenWiFi AX Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System Not sure if this is the right place to ask…. I am thinking of upgrading my Google Mesh wifi to the above.ย Has anyone used this and does it...
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December 7, 2021 at 5:53 pm #16629
On what firmware are you? For me, Teams issues arose after upgrade from 42095 firmware to newer versions.
The only firmware without problems today is still 42095 (for me at least).
Try to revert back to 42095.
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December 7, 2021 at 5:55 pm #16630December 7, 2021 at 6:05 pm #16634This really looks to be a radar related issue you wont catch by changing disconnect time at night.
But probably a firmware bug if it doesn’t happen with other fw.You need to login in order to vote
December 7, 2021 at 6:42 pm #16637As @jackydecoster suggests – 42095 is the gold standard currently

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December 7, 2021 at 7:43 pm #16639Can I roll back without issues with settings? I don’t have time to reconfigure everything from factory fresh, so would really want to do that as a last resort.
Plus, where is the ROM now? Asus seems to have had a clear out and only has the current one?
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December 7, 2021 at 8:04 pm #16640Can I roll back without issues with settings? I donโt have time to reconfigure everything from factory fresh, so would really want to do that as a last resort.
Don’t own the ย ZenWiFi AXย but usually with ASUS firmware’s, rolling back 1 or 2 versions is usually possible.
No idea regarding ROM files
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December 8, 2021 at 4:53 am #16641As @jackydecoster suggests โ 42095 is the gold standard currently

Totally agree with that, 42095 is best for Team’s stability.ย Also for general stable connection.ย Come on ASUS, please fix this.
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December 10, 2021 at 8:50 am #16663Okay, so I’ve rolled back to 42095 (found the firmware on the Asus site) and we’ll see how this fares today.
I also did a full reset*, which caused no end of problems trying to find the mesh node and reconnecting again (eventually it just connected by itself, which begs the question – did the WPS reset method actually work?)ย I am now connected with a new SSID and passcode I had to create upon reset, so it seems it already recognised the node and downloaded the settings by itself.
The Asus setup wizard, and even the app, seems to give little to no information on how to do things – and manual searching for a new node always failed. You just have to wait it out. Pretty poor, and surely a nightmare for people less experienced/patient.
My USB flash drive (a small 32GB stick to share some media with TVs etc) also stopped working and I had to format it and set up again. Even toggling the settings off/on didn’t make it show up anywhere. Minor issue for a flash drive, but would be annoying if you had a huge hard drive with media. Sure, it may have been possible to get it working without a format, but I couldn’t find a way.
One thing of note is that when I look at the node via AIMesh and click on Network to get uplink/backhaul information, I now see the PHY rate properly again. Previously this was 0 transmit and 0 receive (can’t remember what firmware did this). It’s currently showing 2882.3 and 3062.5 (the latter the highest I’ve ever had from when it did show properly).
I pray that it doesn’t drop to 2.4GHz or anything silly! The 5GHz-2 channel has returned to WPA2-Personal from what I’d set it to beforeย (WPA3). Not sure about the security issues, but right now I don’t want to alter anything for obvious reasons! It doesn’t seem clear if changing anything for the backhaul is causing the problems.
(Also, I do think the radar issue I mentioned was a red herring as it failed around 1610-1612 every day this week with an error relating to the node – and no mention of radar issues for any day other than the one I posted above)
* I didn’t reset the logs so some information was retained, but all the key settings were reset. Shame there’s no ‘reset to default’ for each individual Wi-Fi channel, as it’s quite hard to remember what was default after you change certain settings.
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December 10, 2021 at 11:29 am #16666My USB flash drive (a small 32GB stick to share some media with TVs etc. also stopped working)
Does sound like you had a few issues after the factory reset, let us know if the stability improves as after all your hard work, it better had

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December 10, 2021 at 11:45 am #16667My USB flash drive (a small 32GB stick to share some media with TVs etc. also stopped working)
Does sound like you had a few issues after the factory reset, let us know if the stability improves as after all your hard work, it better had
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</noscript>I expect some of the issues were down to not just doing a reset but rolling back the firmware. As the issue with Teams seemed to occur around 1610-1613 every day this week (if not at other times also), it should be easy to see if it works today! Unless she doesn’t have a call, because they’re having a Christmas party tonight and perhaps they’ll all finish early!
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December 10, 2021 at 3:17 pm #16669always next week

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December 10, 2021 at 4:31 pm #16670She’s still working and had no issues (as of 1630) so that’s a great sign!
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December 10, 2021 at 4:34 pm #16671Great news so far, it is good when tech works as it should do ;)
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December 10, 2021 at 5:12 pm #16672Less good for Asus which really needs to fix this issue. Worse thing is, when do I consider it safe to do another upgrade given the grief in rolling back once again if it fails?
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December 10, 2021 at 6:37 pm #16673Less good for Asus which really needs to fix this issue. Worse thing is, when do I consider it safe to do another upgrade given the grief in rolling back once again if it fails?
Good question, alas most of these consumer grade manufacturers are the same , Netgear etc. the only way is to either test and report so others can benefit, or wait for others to evaluate – which is why member such as @dodgydrains are good to follow as they are happy to test and feedback faults etc.
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