New X50 3-pack, bad latency and drop-out issues, super disappointed
I bought an X50 3-pack to replace my existing Netgear Nighthawk MR60/MS60 setup which for the life of me I could not get adequate whole home coverage with even after adding an AX1600 extender. I live in a fairly standard 3-level townhouse, around 2200 sqft, nothing crazy at all.
I was so fed up with the Netgear setup I was super stoked to install the X50s and finally get rid of my WiFi woes. Spent way too much time troubleshooting already.
So now I'm here, with this new X50 pack, and while the coverage is better, I now have a new problem... latency and dropouts.
My gaming PC is downstairs and in the same room as the main X50 that is connected to the internet router. The latency to the internet on my desktop will seemingly at random just spike out of nowhere and sometimes will also drop out completely for a couple of seconds resulting in packet loss. Obviously not good for online gaming as it basically makes it unplayable when you're in competitive matches. Here's a screen of a continous ping showing the latency spiking all over the place. This particular screenshot isn't even showing the worst of it as it frequently spikes up to 1000+ms and with timeouts:
On the Netgear Nighthawks, while the coverage wasn't great, I would get a SOLID 10/11 constant ms ping with almost zero spikes and no timeouts whatsoever.
My PC setup is a ASUS B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) mobo with an onboard Intel AX200 160MHz Wifi/Bluetooth card. I've tried all sorts of different driver versions from the recommended ASUS version to random other ones I've found elsewhere and the latest version (23.30.0.6) from intel, nothing seems to make a difference driver wise:
I've also tried putting the Decos into AP mode which didn't do anything. Tried a myriad of other settings within the Deco app such as locking my PC to a specific Deco (the one closest to), forcing 2.4 GHz band, turning off Mesh, ran network optimization, etc. to no avail. Firmware is all up to date as well.
I'm at a loss for words at this point and am extremely disappointed. TP-Link Decos were fairly well reviewed and like I said, I was excited to finally rid myself of WiFi problems, only to be seriously frustrated and disappointed yet again. The product itself looks slick, was easy to setup, the App is great... but it's all out the window if it's unreliable.
Why is this so difficult? Does no one make a good product anymore? I thought shelling out $300 would be enough to get reliable Wi-Fi.
Any tips / help would be appreciated at this point as now it's looking like I'll have to switch back to the Netgears or hard-wire my desktop I guess (which kind of defeats the purpose of a Mesh Wi-Fi network...).
K this is not about getting 'low gaming latency' or hard wired connections; this is about this Deco system dropping out and spiking high latency randomly for no reason. Something this system is doing internally is causing this. The below should NOT be happening during regular usage. I play AOE4 which is an RTS game online, when these drops occur, the game disconnects. This makes the game pretty much unplayable online when I'm getting disconnected and high ping spikes every 20-40 seconds.
Timeouts occur causing the game client to disconnect and reconnect:
The pings to 8.8.8.8 is Google DNS, not the game server.
I'm in IT and i know when something isn't right. This Deco system is NOT right, this should not be happening. AP is in the same room right across from my PC. The AP is directly connected to internet modem.
This was NOT happening on the Netgear system.
This also happens when I download something on this system from my PC. Absolutely horrendous latency spikes. This system seemingly cannot handle standard network traffic, it's like i'm going back in time 10 years to when someone else uses the network everyone else's network drops. This is ridiculous.
