RE650 Access Point Mode - Iphone 8 / IOS 12.1 incompatibility issues
This is likely an apple issue, but figured I would also post here in case anyone had any ideas.. I've had a re650 in place acting as the sole wireless access point in our household for almost a year now with no issues what so ever. Recently I've added an Iphone 8 with ios 12.1 and have been running into a really odd issue with it. Any other wifi router / AP (I've tested around 6 others now) there are 0 issues, but when connected to the re650 I get random timeouts. Interestingly enough only to google (from what I've seen). I can stream and browse other sites while being unable to hit google.com, youtube, and any google affiliate site. This is a periodic and random issue. It will last 5 min or so and then everything will return to normal, or I can disconnect reconnect my iphone and everything returns to normal.
Now you might suggest this is an upstream or router issue, but I am unable to reproduce this on any other device. Additionally I ran packet captures on my router (pfsense) and I seem to be getting into a retransmit loop. Basically my iphone keeps sending google syn packets and google responds with syn ack, but those syn ack packets never make it to the iphone yet they leave the router. I'm perplexed by this issue as it almost seems like a QOS type issue, but I am unware of any QOS behind the scenes of the RE650. After 50-60 packets I get a RST and the connection closes. I don't really suspect a hardware issue with either device as both seem to operate fine with other device or other networks, this honestly seems like some incompatibility issue. I just don't get how/why it is seemingly only google.com that I've been able to repro this issue with.
For sake of troubleshooting I also added my old ASUS AP back into the network under a different SSID and I have yet to encounter this behavior..
RE650 is in AP mode w/ latest firmware.