BE6500 Wi-Fi 7 High Gain Wireless USB Adapter Intermittent interruption
I am using the newly released wifi 7 USB adapter with my TP-Link Tri-Band BE19000 WiFi 7 Router (Archer BE800). It seems to provide much more bandwidth than my old wifi 5 network so I won't complain too much but it seems to be experiencing intermittent interruption where the speed will suddenly drop from a consistent 1.2 Gbps down to almost zero. It will then stay at zero for as little as a few seconds or as long as a whole minute. I am transferring large files from my attatched USB HDD to my network NAS. Neither of these sem to be the bottleneck in this situation and the files are very large sequential reads and writes so the HDD should not be bottlenecking the transfer. Also, a single file is being transferred for many minutes at a time so iops is not an issue here. I understand that wifi can have unstable speeds but there are instances where the speed will go to zero for more than 60 seconds which is not normal.
I realize that as an early adopter that these kinds of issues are bound to happen. I was wondering if there might be an explanation to this issue. Hopefully a driver update in the future might fix this issue. I am doubtful that it's a problem on my end but I am open to that possibility. If anyone can help, it would be appreciated. I will post the firmware version the router is using as well as a screenshot of the network graph. Thank you!
Firmware Version:
1.1.6 Build 20240808 rel.26673(5553)
Hardware Version:
Archer BE800 v1.0
It seems that all three of these networks have the issue. Smart connect is enabled for 2.4/5ghz, all maximum channel widths, all auto channels, PSC is enabled for 6Ghz, 6ghz mode is ax/be mixed. MLO is enabled with all three bands.
For what it's worth the dropping seems like it may be a bit less often after the driver update. Also, I am using the internal SSD now instead of the attached HDD.
MLO example with two drops:
6Ghz example:
2.4/5Ghz example:
I seem to be getting somewhat similar speeds with all three of these networks. Hope this helps, I might be able to do more tests tomorow if you want.