@David-TP ... yes. When I first bought the 3 unit kit, They came with the original firmware v1.0. But as soon as I brought them online, the mobile app told me to update the firmware on all of them. So I upgraded all 3 units to 1.2_1.1.0_230522. I bought a 4th unit and realized it had a different hardware version, so it got the 1.5 firmware update. Everything has been working completely fine since the original setup. PiHole was 192.168.6.6 and worked fine with all my devices. I set the router to 192.168.6.1 and it's DNS under More->Advanced->DHCP->Primary DNS to the PiHole address 192.168.6.6 with no secondary DNS. Again, until the latest firmware update, everything has been working fine. There were no alterations to any network settings on the router or the servers. I simply got a message in the app that a firmware update was available, so I applied it. That's when the problem started.

 

I decided to revert (rollback) the firmware. I downloaded it and went into the web-ui ... not the mobile app. I picked the firmware and clicked upgrade, but it simply failed and said to get the latest upgrade... which is already on the router/points and is causing the whole issue. There doesn't seem to be a way to force older firmware back onto the router/points.

 

So for the sake of my wife's access to work and streaming... I switched the router back to Google and Cloudflare DNS. So all outbound traffic/requests work. However, all inbound traffic is stopped at the router now. It's as if Port Forwarding just stopped working.

 

So I'm still at a loss and trying to figure out how to fix the issue since I can't seem to rollback to the firmware that was working.

So before I start to apply the firmware, I decided to turn off PiHole and my entire ProxMox system to eliminate it from thought. I spun up a new web server (with nginx) and a new Teamspeak 3 Server (yeah, I'm dating myself admitting this one). Then I went into the TP-Link app on my Android phone to change the Port Forwarding from the ProxMox servers to the new Windows servers. DENIED! The app will not let me Port Forward even after deleting the ones pointing at the ProxMox servers. So this has nothing to do with my ProxMox setup. I can't Port Forward any new address from the app. The error I get when trying... "Adding this entry will assign a fixed IP address to this device and clear the IP address you reserved for this device before. Add now?" ... so I click Add ... "Failed to save your settings. Please try again." over and over and over. So I can't even set up any new Port Forwards regardless of where they are pointing to.

David-TP wrote

  @Zen007 

Hi, Thanks for the further update.

1.2.0 Build 20231229 is the latest firmware version for Deco X55_V1.26 while 1.5.1 Build 20240417 is for Deco X55_V1.6.

Personally, I don't think the firmware 1.2.0 caused the reported issue, but we can try to downgrade one of the Deco X55_V1.26 to 1.1.0 first:

- The firmware downgrade needs to be implemented via firmware recovery:

How to use firmware recovery on Deco

1.1.0 firmware download link:

Deco X55(US)_V1.26_1.1.0 Build 20230522

 

It is suggested to recover one of the satellite Deco X55_V1.26 back to 1.1.0 first, then switch to this unit as the main Deco so that we can keep the previous network configuration:

How to replace the main Deco with another Deco

 

Wait for your reply and best regards.

 

The firmware rollback to 1.1.0 then immediately rolling back up to 1.2.0 worked! All I can think of is that even though the Deco app (Android) showed the 1.2.0 firmware applied "successfully" ... somehow it really didn't complete. Because again... everything except Port Forwarding worked fine. I didn't change any of the setting in the router. I didn't use a satellite as a new main router. I simply rolled back my current Main router and rolled it forward again... this time from the web interface.

 

I am back in business! Thanks for the help!

 

I don't see a way to mark this as the "Solution" or "Solved" ... so for anyone reading this thread... the above info from @David-TP worked.

 

  @David-TP hey, is there any upgrade coming anytime soon? This issue is real and there are other threads also talking about this.

 

This issue started happening to me as soon as I upgraded via OTA like in April. Unfortunately support team wasn't any helpful stating that there are no issues with the firmware. I bought these devices as an upgrade to my former X20s but these have been much worse because of this.

 

I'm writing now because I'm tired of it already. I have to go every couple of days to unplug and plug back every device when the network becomes too unstable.