Deco X60: Very frequent connection drop off
Deco X60: Very frequent connection drop off
Hi Deco/TPLink community :
I have 2x Deco X60 (3.0) units bought in Dec. 2022 , about half year ago, it was working mostly fine until this month ...
Ever since I upgraded the firmware (version : 1.2.4 Build 20230601 Rel. 37750) some time last week , multiple of our devices , including iPhone 14 Pro Max, and 2 x MBP (Intel chip) laptops have been experiencing consistent / very frequent connection drop offs.
I logged in into the web console and pulled the system logs.
Searching the mac address of my device (which is an Apple MBP laptop , 2019 model running Ventura OS 13.4)
You see that it keeps dropping off twice within a few min. with "client_mgmt: client(......) not found in arp table ......"
5651:Tue Jun 20 11:11:16 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(5C-52-30-9C-A7-46) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=0
5718:Tue Jun 20 11:11:33 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(5C-52-30-9C-A7-46) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=1
5761:Tue Jun 20 11:11:50 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(5C-52-30-9C-A7-46) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=2
5874:Tue Jun 20 11:12:25 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: mac 5C-52-30-9C-A7-46 had uploaded
6763:Tue Jun 20 11:17:17 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(5C-52-30-9C-A7-46) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=0
6815:Tue Jun 20 11:17:34 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(5C-52-30-9C-A7-46) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=1
6854:Tue Jun 20 11:17:51 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(5C-52-30-9C-A7-46) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=2
7031:Tue Jun 20 11:18:50 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: mac 5C-52-30-9C-A7-46 had uploaded
The full logs a few seconds before the drop off, it showed a few other errors ("triggerMonSteering: Failed to get uplink rssi for ...") and it seemed multiple devices were affected altogether :
Tue Jun 20 11:17:46 2023 user.notice dhcpv6: start dial, iface=br-wan
Tue Jun 20 11:17:47 2023 daemon.err nrd[1308]: triggerMonSteering: Failed to get uplink rssi for D8:EB:46:0D:FC:31
Tue Jun 20 11:17:51 2023 daemon.err nrd[1308]: triggerMonSteering: Failed to get uplink rssi for CA:AB:FF:5A:61:D2
Tue Jun 20 11:17:51 2023 daemon.notice nrd[1308]: estimatorPerformMeasurement: Do 11k measurement for D8:EB:46:16:30:22 on channel 6 from serving BSS APId 255 ChanId 6 ESSId 0
Tue Jun 20 11:17:51 2023 daemon.err nrd[1308]: estimatorCmnHandleBeaconReportEvent: Invalid beacon report for D8:EB:46:16:30:22
Tue Jun 20 11:17:51 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(AE-76-F9-3E-0F-EC) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=0
Tue Jun 20 11:17:51 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(5C-52-30-9C-A7-46) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=2
Tue Jun 20 11:17:51 2023 daemon.err client_mgmt: client(4C-2E-B4-EB-88-D9) not found in arp table disconnect_counter=1
Please help ! This is severely affecting our work from home and normal life now...
Thanks!
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Try changing the DNS into 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 - my network has been stable for 24 hours on this DNS. Hope it stays that way ofcourse.
Succes ermee
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How is the full factory reset going ?
Do you experience the same issue after running factory reset ?
In my situation I found DNS config. largely depends on the ISP .
I'm now with Exetel in Australia here, I found the Google's 8.8.8.8 wasn't performing any better than the ISP's default DNS servers so I stayed with the default / automatic.
However when earlier I was with Optus the Google's DNS seemed better than what Optus offers.
Speaking of providing logs to TP Link support - I can't speak for you and it's up to you how to define "safe" :)
I shared my full raw logs exported from the Deco GUI tho - I did open it with a text editor and made sure there was no sensitive information included (such as login user name, password, my address , etc.) . Personally I'm fine with sharing IP addresses and Mac addresses with the TP Link support.
If factory reset couldn't fix the issue for you and the logs don't help - you may want to ask your support engineer how to downgrade your X60 firmware version
You're not alone ...
Check the discussion earlier in this thread and see if a full factory reset helps.
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Both @ErnieBernie and @lyle-w suggestions are worth a shot and I hope you could also help me check which case here is quite like yours:
Fix unstable connection when connected to the Deco network
Thank you very much.
Best regards.
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Hi Lyle,
The reset went wel, thanks. First I followed the advise to stay offline with the DECO for many hours. Then I reset the main Deco and configured it with the DNS from Cloudflare ( thanks to @dlfranks ) instead off my ISP's DNS (Bredband2 in Sweden). I am not so fond of Google and try to avoid them as much as possible but that's another story :-) After a few hours I added the kitchen satelite and few hours after that the upstairs satelite. That all goes automatically and is quite simple. I noticed that my LG tv needed some help with finding the right DNS and my iMAc and Apple TV device as well. In the meantime I monitored the whole network with a Ping program and never lost a package so that's promising.
I have had contact witt the TP Link Support (fast and professional service I must say - I didn't get paid for saying this by the way ) and they forwarded a special Firmware that helps retrieving the correct logs they need. I should upload that and retrieve the logs needed and forward to them as soon the Deco starts to loose connection again. Before sending them I will make sure no sensitive information is included. But sofar so good and it's still working. However the network has not been in full use yet.
Since I have the V2 version the latest Firmware is from 2021. My Deco has not been updated for a while so htah could not be the issue. I was to fast to asume that I had the V3 as well with the latest Firmware update. So no need to downgrade for me.
Now wait and see what happens the coming days.
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I have to say that our support tickets were handled completely differently - I wasn't given any "special version" of firmware to collect logs, and after I provided the debug level logs exported form GUI, the engineer just replied that those logs are not helpful and asked me to chase ISP - I argued that how could other devices could keep online with no issue while only one specific client device was having the dropoff at the time if that was ISP problem - (s)he turned to say that the logs I shared looks all good but they could/might offer a replace of modem - if I keep getting this on one particular unit , or they may help to downgrade my firmware via a remote session.
Anyway, a full factory reset did seem to do the magic for me - and looks like does the same for you too - so I guess this likely to be some kind of config/data cache / software issue that triggerred by a firmware upgrade or config changes at some point - the firmware itself should be good on a new/fresh installation.
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