[RESOLVED] RE655BE (EU) Stability issues when MLO is active
Update: Starting with 1.0.8 has finally fixed the issue. Cheers!
Hello,
I set the RE655BE (EU) up as AP mode.
Configured OFDMA on all bands, and MU-MIMO where possible (5 & 6). These settings can only be set on the web interface, not the app for some reason.
I set everything as Wifi7 WPA3 (or WPA2/WPA3), disabled WPS (though the AP is still signaling the WPS tag on the 2.4 and 5 bands for some reason), put bandwidth for every band to their respective maximum (40, 160, 320), and set the lowest channel on all bands.
I haven't tried EasyMesh, as I have no other EasyMesh devices. The router has wifi completely turned off, so the RE655BE is the only networking device emitting wifi in my home's network.
It's rock solid, and the signal is great even though I have a TON of neighbors and office wifi signals around me (it's a high density mixed-use apartment neighborhood).
Buuut... If I turn on MLO, even though I only have one device using it, stability breaks. It happens more often when my MLO smartphone is far away from the AP. After a while, all wifi goes offline (including non-MLO). OFDMA and MU-MIMO don't change how often it crashes. The AP is still accessible from ethernet, but no wifi available whatsoever.
When wifi was down, I logged into the AP using ethernet, and did a small test: I changed configurations on MLO, and also on different bands (because that triggers a wifi network restart), but it didn't make wifi work again. I have to reboot it to make wifi work again.
So... In summary, if you disable MLO, the RE655BE is a rock solid device.
But MLO is just a no-go for now.
Hoping that you will fix MLO sooner than later.
Cheers!
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@Joseph-TP Much appreciated it!
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Thanks for letting us know. Did you test in Access Point mode or only Repeater mode? IIRC, it worked in Repeater mode, but does not work when you put it in Access Point mode.
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@apreslin Version 1.1.3 is no longer wrongly signaling the WPS flag ![]()
But I'm having login issues ![]()
I had to reboot the RE655BE several times until it let me in through to the settings webpage.
Now it logs into the settings web page ![]()
Though the TP-Link Cloud page inside the settings page isn't working (request timeout) ![]()
Also, logging in using the app is also not working.![]()
Something is messed up.
A hard reset and re-configuring everything might fix it, but I don't have the time right now.
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@Joseph-TP See new issues with 1.1.3 (EU) on the above post.
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@heffeque Where did you get the new firmware? I only see 1.0.8 on https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/re655be/v1.60/#Firmware
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@apreslin Here:
https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/re655be/#Firmware
But this one is EU only: less channels available (due to EU regulation) on the 6 GHz band than the USA version, plus maybe other SW/HW changes that I'm not aware of.
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heffeque wrote
@apreslin Here:
https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/re655be/#Firmware
But this one is EU only: less channels available (due to EU regulation) on the 6 GHz band than the USA version, plus maybe other SW/HW changes that I'm not aware of.
Thanks! I guess I should wait until there is a US version. Then again, sounds like it may have introduced new bugs.
@Joseph-TP is TP-Link going to release a US version of this?
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