@David-TP 

Thanks for your message. To answer your questions, to the best of my knowledge:

1. no it doesn't go red

2. i've not been able to consistently replicate it, but what happened the other day was I was working from home alone fine, then my kids came home from school and barely started their PCs when the network went down.

3. i do not need to restart the deco - i have been waiting around and it was fixing itself after a while. in the last couple of days i've been forced to run a long ethernet cable from the router upstairs directly to either a deco unit up here, or straight into the powerline socket in the mains.

i've saved the system logs - which one(s) do you want?

update - when logged into the web ui, i notice the CPU load fluctuating between 25% to 83% with one occurance of 100% while monitoring. Memory usage seems stable around the 50% level

  @David-TP 

The current setup is:

router --- main X55 --- <wifi> --- X55#1 --- <wifi> --- X55#2

                                                      \                            \ <powerline> -- PCs

                                                       \

                                                        \ --- PC from ethernet port

                                                         \

                                                          \ --- <powerline> -- PCs / PS5

Deco is set to Access Point mode

router is a mikrotik hex router model RB750Gr3

so when this first started happening, i tested the router directly with a laptop with an ethernet cable connected directly to it using another port, and it connected while the deco did not.

i ran an ethernet cable directly from the router upstairs to the back of the second hub - which itself was also connected to the powerline socket, and this seemed to fix the issue.

but since using that workaround, we have found on occasion the connection still getting extremely slow, so i moved the ethernet socket from the back of the hub directly into the powerline socket (it has 2 ports) which seemed like just moving the end of the cable from one point to another, but it did seem to improve the signal.

currently there are 12 devices registered with the deco - this includes a printer, a couple of smart speakers, a couple of smart switches

just to reiterate, as far as i know apart from using the ethernet cable extension, nothing in software and hardware has changed since i first noticed this, apart from the firmware which was set to automatically update.

thanks

  @David-TP 

I'd say that is generally true. With the help of a couple of long ethernet cables, i've slightly modified my network. It's now more like this:

Green = ethernet

Cyan = powerline

Purple (dotted) = mesh wifi

With all other devices connecting to the mesh wifi, including the PS5. It did seem that starting a gaming session on the PS5 started the slowdown of all network machines. 

i have a problem with the same firmware (release 48241) on 5x X50s . should i start a new thread or add to this one?

a few curiosities. firmware updates are disabled in the app. cpu is pinned at 100% on the main unit. network often is usable for maybe 15 minutes.

often reproducible

-paul