onedollarinmywallet
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I have a puzzling (at least to me) problem that I haven't seen before on my RT-AC68U's (the primary and an AiMesh node on wired backhaul). I recently upgraded to the the latest firmware (3.0.0.4.384.45713) and after a few days of running, I was experiencing some issues mainly:
1. The kids were reporting their iPads kept disconnecting from the WLAN randomly
2. One of the laptops (HP Spectre x360) which never had any issues connecting on 802.11ac in the past, now suddenly will only connect on 802.11n 2.4 GHz @ 144 Mbps
3. Perhaps the most puzzling was seeing my client connection count suddenly increased by 20+ additional clients in the "Network Map" screen, even though I don't have 20+ clients on my WLAN. More on that in a minute.
Since the only thing that had changed was upgrading the firmware, I proceeded to downgrade both units to 3.0.0.4.384.45708) , factory reset the configuration, and proceeded to reconfigure them, and got everything back up and operational. Everything seemed fine, the kids haven't complained anything about the iPads disconnecting and the HP laptop now connects back at 802.11ac.
Here's the puzzling thing:
I looked at the network map screen and I am seeing an client entry that I do not recognize and it also states that there are "2 clients are connecting to RT-AC68U through this device". What is this? I don't recall seeing something like this before on the previous firmware. I am also unable to ping this particular device's IP and doing a MAC address vendor lookup doesn't seem to show anything. I am at lost as to where this is coming from, and how it's able to connect to my router?
What's also bizzarre was that on the HP Spectre x360 laptop (on the latest ASUS firmware last night), it stated that there were 9 devices connecting through it to my router!?!?
See attached screenshots.
Any ideas what's going on?
Is there a particular firmware that I should downgrade to?
Thanks!
1. The kids were reporting their iPads kept disconnecting from the WLAN randomly
2. One of the laptops (HP Spectre x360) which never had any issues connecting on 802.11ac in the past, now suddenly will only connect on 802.11n 2.4 GHz @ 144 Mbps
3. Perhaps the most puzzling was seeing my client connection count suddenly increased by 20+ additional clients in the "Network Map" screen, even though I don't have 20+ clients on my WLAN. More on that in a minute.
Since the only thing that had changed was upgrading the firmware, I proceeded to downgrade both units to 3.0.0.4.384.45708) , factory reset the configuration, and proceeded to reconfigure them, and got everything back up and operational. Everything seemed fine, the kids haven't complained anything about the iPads disconnecting and the HP laptop now connects back at 802.11ac.
Here's the puzzling thing:
I looked at the network map screen and I am seeing an client entry that I do not recognize and it also states that there are "2 clients are connecting to RT-AC68U through this device". What is this? I don't recall seeing something like this before on the previous firmware. I am also unable to ping this particular device's IP and doing a MAC address vendor lookup doesn't seem to show anything. I am at lost as to where this is coming from, and how it's able to connect to my router?
What's also bizzarre was that on the HP Spectre x360 laptop (on the latest ASUS firmware last night), it stated that there were 9 devices connecting through it to my router!?!?
See attached screenshots.
Any ideas what's going on?
Is there a particular firmware that I should downgrade to?
Thanks!