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This is a known issue with some newer Asus routers, particularly the AX/BE series. A few things to try:
Most likely culprit — WAN DHCP behavior:
The newer Asus routers handle DHCP lease renewal differently than the older RT-AC88U. After a reboot, the router may be waiting for...
MLO was never stable for me with my Samsung Galaxy S25 series phones so I have abandoned it for now. Under MLO, roaming between nodes causes the phone to disconnect from Wifi so it becomes unusable for me. May be a few firmware updates down the road it will be fixed (or not).
Putting aside MLO...
Looks like a very minor update 39102 to 39106. I upgraded manually because the checking for updates didn't find this release. After restart the 6ghz radio on the main node stopped broadcasting. Restarted again and fine for a couple of hours now. I might need to reset the whole thing.
Yeah I keep turning fronthaul MLO on and off but with MLO off, I think the Asus "Smart Connect" takes over which at the moment is a more stable feature than MLO for my use case. For backhaul MLO works fantastically because at both ends Asus is in charge. For fronthaul MLO the jury is out because...
I have kind of given up turning on fronthaul MLO on my Asus BT10. I have a few different variation of Samsung Galaxy S25 phones and can't seem to have a stable connection with MLO turned on. The newest firmware update is no exception. Not sure if the issue is with Asus or the phones.
So far so good. It has the Guest Wifi is updated with dedicated Kids, IoT, VPN etc. Other than that a few minor things. I don't think it has the VLAN feature included.