@Nrby_S 

Hi,

I don't know if anything can be done on the router side, but my cure for network devices waking up unwantedly has been to select the option "Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer" in Windows. Of course you will then need to use the magic packet method to wake up the computer.

  @woozle has always been on, even tried turning it off and the behaviour doesn't change 

  @Nrby_S 

Then there must be some other issue. The router does not send out magic packets on its own. I have an Archer BE550 V1 here (which technically should be the same as your Archer BE9300 V1) and my PC is not randomly being woken up via WoWLAN when connected to this router.

Can you please verify the PC does not wake up on its own when it's not connected to the router? (i.e. disconnect the PC's Wi-Fi before putting it to sleep)

  @woozle 

things i've checked are wake timers and i keep doing a powercfg -lastwake and it's always the wifi adapter

when i uncheck "allow this device to wake up the computer" the problem is solved, so for some reason the "only allow magic ..." option is not enough to keep the router from waking up my pc

had a similar issue with my asus router until i updated Group Key Update Period to something like a week, but this option seems to have no effect the the tp-link

  @Nrby_S 

What model of Wi-Fi card does that PC use?

I've had no such problems with Intel AX200/210 and Mediatek MT7922.

In case the Wi-Fi card's driver had some sort of bug that makes it ignore the Windows setting, try to adjust the settings directly in the driver via the "Advanced" tab. Depending on the actual model of Wi-Fi card there are usually several settings relating to the wake up behavior. Maybe disable anything except "Wake on Magic Packet".

  @woozle 

it's an RZ608 Wi-Fi 6E 80MHz onboard on a B550 AORUS ELITE V2 (rev. 1.2), not 100% on the rev. of the motherboard there

i took almost a whole day to test almost all of the settings you mentioned last week and non of them individually solved the problem, it was a pain to keep changing and just wait

i all but gave up on those settings, would be a even bigger pain to test sets of settings, that's why i turned to the router because i was hoping that i can do something on that side to top it from waking up my pc since last time i managed that with the asus just with the gtk rekeying

  @Nrby_S 

I don't know what else could be done. Apart from activating "Only allow a magic packet ..." I've never needed to tinker with any other settings to make WoWLAN work correctly. So it was already unusual that you needed to adjust the GTK setting on the ASUS router.

By the way, make sure the drivers for the RZ608 are fairly up to date. (currently the newest should be 3.4.0.1253)

  @Nrby_S 

I am using these for my MT7922. MediaTek's equivalent of the AMD-branded RZ608 is the MT7921.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/drivers-amd-mediatek-wifi-bluetooth.11384/