The firmware upgrade finally came through today (12/26). It appears that the auto-prompt to upgrade was accidentally pushed two weeks ahead of the actual firmware release.

Upgrading the Firmware on Archer AX55 from "1.1.1 Build 20220621 rel.71166(5553)" to "1.1.5 Build 20221105 rel.1354" is repeatedly failing to connect to server, with error stating "Unable to connect...