Hi there,

 

Having upgraded to the Archer BE550/BE9300 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router, I find that I experience an unreasonable amount of buffering which my previous router didn't do. 

 

Anyone having the same issue and potenially found a resolution?

 

What is experience i have - 

 

1) During browsing on my laptop(s), via the various family iPhones connected, and using applications such as Facebook, Instragram, YouTube etc. the application(s) frequently pause loading and the spinning wheel appears for 20 to 30 seconds. Being on a high speed broadabnd connection with 800Mb download and 45Mbit upload, and not experienceing this on the previous routher I unsure what else to try from what I done below.

 

Devices this is experienced on, all has the latest OS updates, driver updates,

 

1) iPhone 12 Pro (Wi-Fi 6), iPhone 13 Pro (Wi-Fi 6) and iPhone 16 Pro (Wi-Fi 7).

2) Surface Pro 8 (Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz 5GHz, Channel 64, 1729,1297Mbps)

3) Macbooks Air (Wi-Fi 6)

 

Devices not experiencing the issue,

 

1) Desktop + xbox, which is cabled (CAT6) into the router. 

 

Things tried to resolve the issue,

1) Optimising Wi-Fi channels

2) Adding, removing OFDMA/MU-MIMO (this is normally enabled)

3) Different Wi-Fi Security methods with WPA2-PSK[AES]+WPA-PSK[TKIP], WPA3-Personal, WPA3-Personal+WPA2-PSK[AES] - (WPA3-Personal, is normally enabled)

4) TWT On/Off (this is normally disabled)

5) Guest Wi-FI Off (this is normally disabled)

6) 6GHz Off (this is normally disabled)

7) Various Channel bandwidth (normally enabled 2.4GHz (20MHz), 5GHz (20/40/80/160MHz)) 64 DFS.

8) Smart connect (Enabled)

8) MLO On/Off

9) Updating DNS(s) to 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8