Deco M5v3 Network unstable and unusable after update to 1.5.1 firmware

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Deco M5v3 Network unstable and unusable after update to 1.5.1 firmware
Deco M5v3 Network unstable and unusable after update to 1.5.1 firmware
2020-11-18 01:22:37
Model: Deco M5  
Hardware Version: V3
Firmware Version: 1.5.1

Prior to updating my network from 1.4.9 to v1.5.1, my network was running flawlessly.

 

After updating my 3 Deco5v3 units to v1.5.1 firmware from v1.4.9, my network became completely unstable and was unusable.

 

The Decos would randomly drop off the network with a blinking red light. In response to this, I did a reset on each unit, then recreated the mesh network. This made no difference.

 

The WiFi and the connection between the Main Deco and the Cable Modem starting see ~20% packet loss as shown by PingPlotter.

 

Over 3 days, I tried various resets, change ethernet backhaul cables. Reboot the cable modem multiple times. Made each of the Decos the main Deco. And, none of these things helped.

 

Today, I used TFTP and restored v1.4.9 firmware back onto each Deco. I then reset each of the 3 Decos and recreated the network. After doing this the network was completely stable with no Decos dropping off. I was still randomly seeing ~15% packet loss over WiFi. As a result, I disabled Beam Forming, rebooted all Decos and the packet loss as completely stopped. The only way I can force any packet loss is to set PingPlotter to 1 second ping interval and then about every 10th ping will show loss.

 

This 1.5.1 firmware seems to definitely have issues!

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Re:Deco M5v3 Network unstable and unusable after update to 1.5.1 firmware
2020-12-04 19:12:49

@navigator48 I will agree on tha 1.5.1 it's pretty unstable. Maybe an option to downgrade in future versions?

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2021-01-20 23:27:08

@navigator48 I'm having the same issues and its very problematic, , could you please please reply where did you get the 1.4.9 firmware and what exactly is the procedure to replace it (how to use tftp on the deco, etc)?

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Re:Deco M5v3 Network unstable and unusable after update to 1.5.1 firmware
2021-01-22 21:43:39

@HSB  Disable beamforming restart and it will become stable. This is how I solved problem of instability.

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Re:Deco M5v3 Network unstable and unusable after update to 1.5.1 firmware
2021-01-25 09:25:13

@Timos89 Thank you so much for this tip, it completely stabilized my network! I wouldn't be able to catch it myself, cheers ;)

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