OK, next question. On some suggestions from Gemini, it seemed like something was really stuck on using the pi5's address as the DNS server, so I set up a simple redirector on my desktop using dnsmasq...

So, I have two BE63's (they say they're BE10000s) that have been working fine in AP mode for a long time. I have (had) a Raspberry Pi5 running pihole for DHCP/DNS because the Verizon FIOS router's...

@Riley_S yeah, was kind of assuming that. It got so bad last night I just flipped the Deco's to access point mode and that did solve all of my networking issues including using the wired backhaul....

So I recently purchased a pair of Deco BE63 routers from Amazon. Main reason was to use the home wiring Ethernet as backhaul as my previous Eero's started to fail miserably due to some combination of...