I truly, very much appreciate the interest, and weirdly I did get some different behaviour from these devices after cold booting them, which I suspect means a warm reboot doesn't actually reset the baseband radio entirely, so there ya go, there's some truth a complete cold boot.
So I tried...
I've had adaptive QoS off the entire time. One of the RT-AC86Us is the router, the other is just an AP in AiMesh. I'm not using QoS in any way on the network.
The downgrade to 386.3_2 does not seem to have had any measurable effect. Wireless to Wireless clients still have about 10 seconds to...
Hello there,
I was witnessing the exact same behaviour as the OP on a pair of RT-AC86U connected over AiMesh on Merlin firmware 386.11 as well as the Asus stock firmware before that. Much like Frank Munroe in #4, the problem shows up over time and is largely mitigated by reboot. Switching from...