@Kevin_Z 

this still doesn't fix mine, I attempt a download of 10GB video file and the router crashes several times during the process. can't ping the router for 6 seconds everytime.

after 6 seconds it continues to download until it crashes again. Cannot download 2.5GB of 1 video file before it crashes.

  @saiph do you have any usb storage device connected? When the 128gb usb drive I used was full, the router crashed. I removed it and disabled the storage sharing feature and now it does not crash anymore. Just giving an idea, maybe you do not have any and it is caused by another thing

  @persano nothing connected to it but 3 ethernet cables

its 100% firmware issue as when i updated it to the newest one it happened less.

now the router fails about 25% into a download instead of every like 2% 

same issue as the user above

can't ping the router for 6 seconds. literally only 6 seconds everytime. after 6 seconds of timing out transpires it reconects. 

Kevin_Z wrote

 

Coriander wrote

  @Kevin_Z  just the Guest network or also the IoT network?

 

@Coriander That's right. With this new firmware, the satellite AX55 can also extend the main AX55's Guest Network.

@Kevin_Z I understand that the Guest network can be extended now, I was asking about the IoT network.

Kevin_Z wrote

Regarding Access Control, are you indicating that the settings cannot be synchronized from the main AX55 to the satellite? Please provide more details about the issue so we can investigate further. Thank you.

See my post from last year for more details: https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/675314

I haven't tried again since then (I think), but I doubt that anything has changed. At least there's nothing in the release notes that suggests otherwise.

My network is reasonably stable at the moment, so I don't really want to play around with the settings. Over the last 2 years I've spent way too much time trying to get the WiFi working again after trying a new version or changing some innocent-looking settings.

Actually I don't think that access control over EasyMesh was ever working and I remember that there were other users in this forum complaining about it too.

Even without any more details from my side this issue shouldn't be too hard to investigate on your side. There's no need to always place the burden on the users.

Kevin_Z wrote

As far as I can confirm, EasyMesh does not require support for WPA/WPA2-Enterprise, and AX55 is not planned to support it through EasyMesh.

The AX55 router supports WPA/WPA2-Enterprise and it also supports EasyMesh.
The whole point of EasyMesh is to have a single point to configure all WiFi settings. This should apply to all WiFi settings, no matter what's strictly required by the protocol.

But the worst part is, that those settings are just silently ignored. In the case of access control settings, there's a high chance that this goes unnoticed for a long time.

If it works on the main router, there's no reason to assume that it doesn't work for the satellite units. Most users will not explicitly test each satellite separately, if they do test it at all (which shouldn't even be necessary).

And if WPA/WPA2-Enterprise is configured on the main router, all devices connected to the satellite are silently exposed to an unsecured WiFi network. Granted, this is much easier to notice than the access control issue. But still, something like this should never happen under any circumstances.

I think it's reasonable to expect that two features of a product can be used in conjunction, unless there is a valid reason that it cannot work.

I understand that some features were missing in the beginning. I also understand that EasyMesh is a vendor-agnostic standard and different devices support different features.

But I'm using two identical AX55 devices with the exact same features and it's now 2 years since EasyMesh was introduced. Yet the implementation is still incomplete and progress is extremely slow.

Don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate that TP-Link made the effort to support an open protocol instead of yet another proprietary solution. That's why I bought the devices in the first place. But at some point they just have to work properly.

Now I'm starting to look more at "prosumer" grade access points, despite the vendor lock-in. But after this experience it probably won't be anything from TP-Link.

  @Kevin_Z 

I updated my AX55 V1.6 to this yesterday. I have 2 AX55 V4.6 (1.1.2 Build 20241014 rel.59971) also setup with EasyMesh as satellites. I'm using it in AP mode and ethernet backhaul.

The 2 satelite AX55's are constantly going offline. If I unplug the power and plug it back in - they come back online. Sometimes they reconnect with ethernet, but sometimes they get stuck using WiFi. It varies how long it takes them to stop working again.

I have the AX55 V1.6 plugged into a switch for the WAN port.

AX55 V1.6 LAN 1 -> AX55 V4.6 (1) WAN

AX55 V1.6 LAN 2 -> AX55 V4.6 (2) WAN

I've connected them directly - no switch in between them.

I tried changing the AX55 V4.6 plugging into a LAN port instead. If I do that, it just cycles over and over. My devices will connect and immediately disconnect. It just repeats over and over.

Right now, I keep rebooting one over and over and it is refusing to switch to ethernet. I wish there was an option to specify backhaul types - I'll never want Wifi backhaul.

Edit: One of them seems to be working fine again. The other satellite is refusing to switch to Ethernet. I've tried rebooting it several times. I also reset it and added it back again. It has such a bad signal that it is worthless using it.

I think I'm going to have to roll back. Also, I think I may just switch back to sharing the same SSID and disable EasyMesh. I've spent way too much time and it seems to not "just work."

  @JohnR1 

Same on my side and I failed to finish up this topic when I could in past - when I reported simillar behavior (but with no time to bother with this) I ended up wit semi- functinal wifi backhaul, that is few days stable and the other days completely unusable. If you manage to get an reasonable fix, im interrested.