NIntendo Switch Connectivity
Hi there,
I have an issue that seems to pop up regularly in forums, with no solution that works for me.
I have fibre coming to my home to an Optical Network Terminal, to my Archer AX55 which connects to the ISP via PPPoE (edit: the ISP asks that the wan be set to use the vlan tag 40).
FWIW, I also have two RE605X extending the network via EasyMesh but not sure that's relevant.
All devices work fine except our Nintendo Switch. (edit: the Switch connects to the router but fails connecting to the outside world on the connection test). Nintendo says to enable port forwarding for UDP on all ports - which is crazy and would break other connections, but whatever, doing that and enabling forwarding for ports 1-65535 (and binding the Nintendo to a static address of course) still doesn't solve my problem.
Here's the kicker: if I unplug my Archer and the extenders, and plug in the ISP-supplied router, it works. Since that router also supports EasyMesh, I can even connect the two RE605X's to it and the Nintendo Switch still works. No port forwarding needed, no nothing. The ISP-supplied router just works. So clearly, the Archer is doing something funky, but I can't figure out what. I tried putting the Nintendo in DMZ, no dice. I figure it's the Archer trying to be fancy but I'm not sure what's getting in the way. I tried turning off the SPI firewall, still no luck. Any ideas? The Archer is so much faster than the ISP's router, and I'm already invested in tp-link because of the RE605X mesh extenders, I'd hate to have to throw it all out and start over with another brand. Any ideas?
