About to pull my hair out - RT-AX88U Pro 2.4 Wireless clients dropping

[Tech9]

Well, so far so good.

Broadcom is always adjusting things. It was the same with the previous generation radios. When I purchased my Asus router a new firmware was released on the same day. It had really bad Wi-Fi and I was thinking the router is defective. They somewhat fixed it later, but it was similarly to your experience disappointing. With a new model router you have to be patient. It may start working properly and with 3.0.0.6 (or perhaps then 3.0.0.8?) firmware somewhere in 2026.

 

[The_Bishop]

Option #3:

Ah, ok. Got you.

Being as there's an option for multiple guest networks, might make another one for the IoT stuff.

 

[Logi]

Ah, ok. Got you.

Being as there's an option for multiple guest networks, might make another one for the IoT stuff.

All my devices (not IoT) use 5GHz, therefore I have dedicated the 2.4GHz to IoT, no need to use the Guest network

 

[The_Bishop]

Broadcom is always adjusting things. It was the same with the previous generation radios. When I purchased my Asus router a new firmware was released on the same day. It had really bad Wi-Fi and I was thinking the router is defective. They somewhat fixed it later, but it was similarly to your experience disappointing. With a new model router you have to be patient. It may start working properly and with 3.0.0.6 (or perhaps then 3.0.0.8?) firmware somewhere in 2026.

I'd love to see Merlin migrate to the new firmware platform, but I understand that's a lot of work and leaves a lot of legacy routers behind.

It still amazes me that a fairly mature network standard can be this buggy with new models, though. Thanks for the help!

 

[The_Bishop]

All my devices (not IoT) use 5GHz, therefore I have dedicated the 2.4GHz to IoT, no need to use the Guest network

I wish that was the case, still have stuff that requires 2.4.

 

[The_Bishop]

Well, over 4 hours of uptime and nary a whisker of trouble. Thanks for the support, everyone!

 

[Tech9]

What settings change stabilized the connection to your 2.4GHz clients?

 

[The_Bishop]

Honestly? All I did was switch to Merlin from the stock firmware, and it has been flawless. I also disabled Wifi 6 on 2.4 as I don't have any Wifi 6 devices and Wifi 6 gives my Recteq grill problems.

Edit: I'm at 27.5 hours of uptime on the problematic devices and no issues.

 

[jg01]

Maybe it was the WPA2 key, might need WPA/WPA2.

 

[The_Bishop]

Maybe it was the WPA2 key, might need WPA/WPA2.

Nope, had WPA2 for a long time prior to the router swap.

 

[KevTech]

Honestly? All I did was switch to Merlin from the stock firmware, and it has been flawless. I also disabled Wifi 6 on 2.4 as I don't have any Wifi 6 devices and Wifi 6 gives my Recteq grill problems.

Edit: I'm at 27.5 hours of uptime on the problematic devices and no issues.

I think Merlin is still on the 3.0.0.4 firmware and if you were using the latest stock it would have been the 3.0.0.6 firmware.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Disable also the above.

 

[The_Bishop]

I think Merlin is still on the 3.0.0.4 firmware and if you were using the latest stock it would have been the 3.0.0.6 firmware.

I'm aware. Just a touch disappointed about the lack of stability in the 3.0.0.6 firmware.