Deco P7 - half of network loosing internet connections - but no indication on nodes
4 Deco P7's in AP mode, main node connected through Ethernet (so this should be the backhaul),
Ethernet -> P7 - P7 - P7
-P7
ie the main node is probably connected to 2 nodes through Powerline, one of these 2 nodes connected through a 2nd line node through Powerline.
All nodes showing green and working normally, and all powersupply's showing green (>50 Mbit/s connectivity through Powerline).
All generally working well after spending a lot of time getting all power supplys green. It's a one level flat with very difficult and thick walls.
After working well for a month the situation deteriorated a few days ago.
The 2 nodes on the top line disappeared from the network, and could not be seen by the master node, or app. Weirdly enough all lights, on all nodes and power supplys were still green. Rebooting the 2nd level node brought it back on the network for 1-2 minutes, then fell out again. Reset the node and set it up again, worked for 1-2 minutes. In the end I moved the 2nd level node to a new power socket, and everything is working again.
My concern is that there is absolutely no way of debugging this, through app, LED's or any other means as no Web interface or SNMP is available, making it next to impossible to make the network work optimally. The speedtest seems to only work from the main node, which makes it useless as it's connected through the Ethernet connection. So I have what could be a really good mesh network, but no metrics on how well it works. Even on "normal" TP-Link Powerline units there is a management app and browser access helping the setup process, on the P7's (and possibly all Deco units) the management of nodes in AP mode is appalingly bad. And monitoring of nodes is next to impossible (except for ping or arping).
I have heard rumours of a new version of the firmware, will this remedy any of these shortcomings?
It's a pity, as the nodes work well when set up after trial and error, but when I get a call saying the network is down, it's hard to do anything.