Deco x20 full bars but no network
Just setup a deco x20 3 pack this week, in router mode, and I am having a number of connectivity issues; my laptop can't keep a stable connection despite getting full bars; sometimes the network can stay active for a few hours, sometimes a few minutes. I am about 10 feet from the main wired deco. During these issues, I am unable to even ping LAN IP addresses. The cellphones (Pixel 3aXL's) in my house see this to a much lesser degree, and typically do not occur at the same time. I leave my computer pinging 1.1.1.1 during these issues mostly to identify when I can start using the internet again, and when the ping does succeed its between 20 to 3366 ms
Another things of note, is the mesh occasionally will redirect me to a secondary deco, ~120 ish feet away compared to the nearby 10 foot away main deco.
I only got the deco's for mesh's fast wifi change stuff, as I previously just had a second router with the same SSID to fill the property. I do have a powerline ethernet connection to that furthest point, but because the appliances on the same circuit it varies 0.5-70 mbps, typically around 10, but I was hoping the mesh would get stabler than that (300 -> 150 -> 75 out there). Ethernet seems pretty stable (haven't tested as much, since im usually on my laptop, but it seems good), so it doesn't seem to be the decos ability to actually route packets.
downloaded the log from the web interface, and the only mention of my laptops MAC address was copies of this:
Sun Jun 27 14:36:27 2021 daemon.notice nrd[10479]: wlanifBSteerEventsHandleBeaconReport: Beacon report from A4:C3:F0:47:29:E4: APId 0 ChanId 36 ESSId 0 bssid C0:C9:E3:A1:A8:17 rcpi: -76
Sun Jun 27 14:36:27 2021 daemon.notice nrd[10479]: stadbEntry_modifyTriggerThreshold: For client A4:C3:F0:47:29:E4 RSSI: 11 | RCPI: -44 | threshold RSSI: 18
I'm wondering if AP mode rather than router would provide more usable (non-dead) results, but that seems unlikely to me given the fact that I do have a connection, just no traffic. Any suggestions would be helpful.