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. Has anyone used this and does it...

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Jacky Decoster wrote:

update: with or without VPN, i’ve experienced the dropouts of about 5 seconds during team meetings. So, VPN isn’t the cause of the dropouts.

That is not what I was expecting, but thanks for spending the time to check

Back to 42095 sounds the best option for yourself I assume

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[Jacky Decoster]

found this post : http://www.snbforums.com/threads/microsoft-teams-connection-drops.73157/post-723498

i’ve activated Adaptive QOS and ‘Learn from Home’ setting : this afternoon I have several teams calls. Let’s see if this setting resolves the problem.

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Great find on SNB Forums, setting QOS type to Learn-From-Home sets priorities for Streaming and other services etc. so hopefully enables your Teams calls to work better. ?

Shame you are actually ‘Working from Home’ rather than ‘Learn from Home’ so something ASUS may need to fine tune ?

Do let us know if this work ?

BTW – Can you remember if 42095 also had ‘Learn from Home’ option and I assume you did not have this set with 42095 ?

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[dodgydrains]

I stopped using the Asus QoS, it is completely disabled for me.  Only things I manually set up are as follows:

1. Set WAN DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
2. Turn on IPV6 to Passthrough and Cloudflare – Server 1 = 2606:4700:4700::1111    &    Server 2 = 2606:4700:4700::1001

My Surface Pro from work looks like comes built with Zscaler installed (I think it is a VPN).  Not had any major Teams issue on 46061.  Last time I could say that after 42095 was a beta from Asus.

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[Jonathan Morris]

I wouldn’t use QoS myself because it impacts the throughput far too much, but it seems another week has passed with no issues. The mesh node has remained on 5GHz throughout and I’ve had no complaints of a chat dropping.

As of right now, the uptime has been 10 days, 16 hours.

I have noticed also that when I go upstairs, my phone (or laptop) is now connecting to the other node quite a lot quicker and then changing again when I return downstairs. I don’t have smart connect enabled, just the roaming assistant on the standard settings.

I think before, even with 42095, it would cling on to one node unless I turned Wi-Fi off and on.

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It will be interesting to see if for @jackydecoster – QOS options does work ? as others do not use QOS and have no real issues with Teams /Zoom calls etc.

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[dodgydrains]

First time my connection has gone 10 days without issues.  From what I can tell it remained on 5GHZ mesh, channel 100 and bandwidth 160, throughout the 10 days.

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[Jacky Decoster]

since activation of Adaptive QOS and ‘Learn from Home’ : no more dropouts from Teams until now…

Will keep you informed.

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Jacky Decoster wrote:

since activation of Adaptive QOS and ‘Learn from Home’ : no more dropouts from Teams until now… Will keep you informed.

Thanks for letting us know

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dodgydrains wrote:

It now looks like FW 42095 has been removed from the ASUS servers. There also seems to be a chipset or design change on the XT8 on routers with production year 2022? This is what it says on FW prior to 46061, Any ideas what it could be:

Ok, so have had feedback form ASUS (after much chasing) regarding the change to the ZENWifi XT8 and removal of legacy firmwares.

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Currently we are facing a shortage of chips.

So we made another hardware version with an upgrade wifi chip set solution (43684C0).

We don’t want users use newer HW to load previous FW, so we will remove old version gradually.

—–

Note: Older XT8 models can use the newer firmwares

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[Jonathan Morris]

After around two weeks of uptime, I experienced a weird situation where all my LAN ports (but not the WAN port or I’d have had no Internet) stopped working. No Philips Hue bridge, no connection to my downstairs computer and no connection to our set top box. Reboots and power switching didn’t fix it, so I opted to do a full reset and restore (which then saw my mesh node disappear for ages, before returning at 2.4GHz!!).

Even that didn’t fix the issue, so I started to think I had a hardware fault – typical!

But, I then wondered if maybe one of the cables had somehow got damaged (how, I don’t know) and I disconnected them all – and then put them back in one at a time. And, bam, the Hue bridge reconnected to the Internet and all the other connections worked again too. None of them were loose, and even if one was – why did they all fail?

Anyone have any idea what the hell happened there?!

I could see nothing in the logs before the reset to hint at a problem, but it continued even after the reboot. And the mesh node has since gone back to 5GHz (by itself) so it’s like nothing ever happened.

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[Grisu]

Did you only make a reboot (by software) or turn off power for short time on ALL physically connected devices?
First might not reset HW completely to remove failure.
Do you use some kind of switch or PLC (PowerLine)?

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[dodgydrains]

UK Sentinel wrote:

dodgydrains wrote:

It now looks like FW 42095 has been removed from the ASUS servers. There also seems to be a chipset or design change on the XT8 on routers with production year 2022? This is what it says on FW prior to 46061, Any ideas what it could be:

Ok, so have had feedback form ASUS (after much chasing) regarding the change to the ZENWifi XT8 and removal of legacy firmwares. —— Currently we are facing a shortage of chips. So we made another hardware version with an upgrade wifi chip set solution (43684C0). We don’t want users use newer HW to load previous FW, so we will remove old version gradually. —– Note: Older XT8 models can use the newer firmwares

Thanks for chasing them on this.  Hopefully it is true and not fixing an issue with V1.

 

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Luckily, ASUS usually are good with that sort of detail, if there is something they do not wish to hit the public domain, then they usually ask me to be discreet, and they have not  😜

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