2.4 GHz network VERY unstable with Deco XE70s
I am experiencing an issue with the 2,4 GHz networks provided by my XE70 Pro mesh (3 nodes). The mesh provides 3 networks: main, IoT, and Guest. The IoT and Guest are 2.4 GHz only. The problem became apparent when my Wyze cameras were often VERY slow to connect to and sometimes even appear offline. These camera are 2.4 GHz only and are on the IoT network. Thought it may be a coverage issue so moved some cameras closer as a test, but no luck.
After lots of Googling research and seeing other reports of similar issues, I started to look for tools to help me diagnose my particular issue. I found a tool called WIFI Explorer which has provided some interesting insight into the behavior of my network. I'll use screenshots below to tell the story. Since I have 3 XE70s in my mesh network, there are 3 versions of each of my networks (main, IoT, and Guest) visible at any given time.
I'll start by showing a picture of the signal strength of my 5 GHz network from the XE70 node that I am closet to:
The signal strength remains nice and flat for the 5 minute duration shown, which is what you would expect of your network. This is consistent across all XE70 nodes regarding the 5GHz network. Never appears to be a drop in signal strength.
However, I'll now show the signal strength for all 3 nodes for the 2.4 GHz IoT network.
Node 1 - closest to my location:
Node 2 - Room 2
Node 3 - Room 3
All 3 nodes show VERY frequent times of complete outage during the same timeframe! This also happens on the 2.4 GHz network of my main network and Guest networks so is common to the system. I thought perhaps that it may be something in TP-Links implementation of a mesh network, but there have been times when ALL THREE are out at the same time giving me ZERO 2.4 GHz network coverage and wreaking havoc on my 2.4 GHz-based devices - particularly my Wyze cameras to the point where they are damn near useless.
I certainly HOPE someone can help here as I really want to like TP-Link products as I have quite a few. And I will be MORE THAN HAPPY to admit ignorance if it is something that I am doing wrong. Nothing special about my configuration as it is as it was out of the box. No fancy config here.
I am quite remote with the next neighbor about 1/2 mile away, so I would not think interference plays a part here.
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I am having the exact same issue. This is manifesting as frequent disconnects of my MyQ Garage Controller and the MyQ app showing the garage door as offline at times. In addition, this results in erratic garage door open/close behavior when using MyQ from my Teslas. In addition, I have Home Assistant running on my network and it continuously monitors my Whisker Litter Robot 4 - also a 2.4 Ghz device. I see the LR4 getting dropped from the network and reconnecting at least 8-10x per day.
I also have a large number of Wyze cameras and have the same connection issues, although I had originally attributed this to the large number of cameras I have versus the 2.4 Ghz network, but this is starting to make more and more sense.
I'm running 3 XE70 Pros. One on each floor of my house. The middle floor has the connection to the Internet with the other two nodes connecting directly to it.
| XE70Pro(3.0) |
1.2.11 Build 20240724 Rel. 38913 |
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Hi, thank you very much for the message.
It is suggested to test the beta firmware here to see whether it helped:
| Deco XE75/70 Pro_V2/V3 | 1.2.14_build_20250217_Beta |
It could revert to the official firmware 1.2.11 directly via the web UI.
Wait for your reply.
Best regards.
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@rd117 fwiw - the beta David just posted is the fw I run now and it is a mile ahead of the stock in respect to helping with this issue. Not perfect, but massively better! I'd have thrown these out long ago if not for this fw.
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So far the new beta firmware seems to be operating much better. Do you have any ETA as to when this will become a fully-fledged release?
One question I did have. I did notice that 2.4 Ghz is now being spread across different channels depending upon node. In my particular case, it's splitting between 2, 6, and 10 which means there's still some slight overlap. Any reason why it's not picking 1, 6, and 11 in the US?
Also, let me know if it would be useful for me to provide logs from my mesh setup for further debugging and log cleanup.
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When is tp link going to release the official firmware? The 2.4 band is useless with constant disconnects on IOT devices.
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@Oakley2008 My guess is never. Still waiting for my S7's to get an update! lol. TP-Link is a lost cause. Never again.
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Any update on a release date for the official firmware? It's crazy that the last official release is over a year old (build date July 2024) with 2.4 Ghz not working properly, and we're still stuck using beta firmware for the 2.4 Ghz fix. Is there even newer beta firmware than the February 2025 build?
These are not timely updates and these issues are seriously making me consider another product or brand.
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