IoT Network - Deco XE75 - Unstable
TL;DR - I was hoping by enabling the IoT network I'd have stable connectivity as it's at 2.4Ghz. So far...not the case. Does anyone out there have same/similar experience and what have you, or can you suggest, be done ?
The attached image is my setup, a mix of ethernet from a switch off my router for work Laptops and the Deco's broadcasting 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz to all non IoT devices on "Internet" + all IoT devices on Internet_IoT. There are upwards of 70 devices attached to the network, most are running off the Deco's and many of those are IoT devices (TP-Link bulbs and switches, Google Home products, a Leviton switch and a Good Earth light fixture).
1. One of the Deco XE75's stopped functioning properly throttling bandwidth from an already bad 50 x 10 (my over the air Wireless) to 20 x 2 last week. I've now completely reset all the Deco's and rebuilt the network from scratch, not a trivial exercise.
2. Before and now again I'm having trouble with the Google Hub constantly dropping off the IoT network and reconnecting within 2-3min normally. Other devices appear to be stable but it's hard to tell as they don't have displays. The hub has been reset multiple times and is now off the IoT network where it's stable
3. The mobile app on Android is horribly slow to report device status and often reports Deco's offline for 2-3min when I know they're actually online
4. The browser portal is worse and missing many features, it stinks
PS: I's a big, old, long, farmhouse with brick and unknown substances in the walls that block signals, that's why I have 6 Deco's indoors, 3 backhauling by ethernet and the 6th, an M5 on ethernet in my garage. The network is in Access Point mode.
Blue lines = Ethernet
Green Lines = Wireless
The firmware has been updated, three wired X75 v2 1.24 and two WiFi v1 are on 1.28
The device that was unstable was the main device, a wired v2 and is now stable after a complete reset and recreation of the network.
Mesh for the Google Hub has been disabled, is on main "Internet" SSID and Mesh disabled.
Initial feedback is the IoT network is very unstable and is dropping internet connectivity repeating 3-4min cycles. I may need to revert to a previous firmware (where can I find this?).
@jzchen, no, IoT devices don't consuming anywhere close to that kind of bandwidth. Even if they were all running symultaneously (that would mean an action being performed such as bulbs or switches on/off, music or video streaming at exactly the same time) they'd consume just less than half of the upload. When I use monitoring tools it's typically around 1mbps in inbound/outbound traffic when it's static.. Here's a pic of my avaible bandwith from a quick test. We have, although not tons compared to cable or fibre, enough. Our ISP services are delivered over the air which is why it's so limited.
And we consume quite a bit of data, we average approx 400GB-425GB monthly although in Dec when transferring images to our cloud accounts we managed to use over 800GB. If bandwidth was an issue I'd see it affecting everything we do and have running internally, which we don't. We have 6 Blink cameras and a Nest doorbell for the property that are in "always watching" mode plus 2 people working from home on video calls almost all day and in the evening we're using video streaming services. If avaible bandwidth was an issue most of that would be failing, never mind IoT devices.
