Currently running original 3.0.0.6.102_37902 firmware as merlin does not support the BE98 and gnuton has not done merlins latest 105.5 for it yet but will probably put gnuton on it when the latest version is out, or may do it anyway if it might solve some of these issues. Running all bands on a single SSID. I have tried running MLO fronthaul and testing with my S25 Ultra and find that the phone keeps disconnecting from the wifi ENTIRELY then reconnecting a couple of seconds later. This is with a perfectly good signal -70dbm or better. I don't know if its a buggy router or a buggy phone. It also just doesn't seem to connect to all 3 bands, at least according to the wifiman app, it only ever indicates it is connected to 2 of them.
I also find with MLO off and it just using smart connect/roaming, it jumps to the 5ghz band for no real reason, 6ghz still provides better speeds AND when I last looked, a better dbm as well! I checked just now and saw in wifiman it jumped from 6ghz to 5ghz, when the 6ghz was showing -55dbm and the 5ghz was showing -63dbm....which makes no sense, and 6ghz was showing a faster link speed as well.
I didn't touch the smart connect settings so it's still set to RSSI >-62 for 2.4, and <-82 for each of the other bands, at NO point anywhere here do I get a singla of -82dbm on ANY band, which should in theory result in every device being on the highest band it can support since it will always be under that threshold, but it clearly does not work even though I am always well under -82 on every device.
For the MLO I did attempt to stop it disconnecting entirely in the MLO settings by upping the "Roaming assistant" setting under professional from -70dbm to -80 thinking that might stop it losing connection entirely when using MLO, but it didn't (and it looks like that setting is only for multiple access points anyway so probably isnt relevant).
So at the moment I have turned MLO off entirely, I believe it's not likely to give any performance benefit anyway but it would be nice to just have devices connected to all of them at once and use whatever is best, instead of using smart connect roaming and jumping between them all the time (and for no good reason that I can see, I am on a single floor with hollow plasterboard walls and a decent 6ghz signal in every room anyway!).
I suspect half the replies will just say turn off smart connect and connect directly to 6ghz but thats a bit of a pain when I have guests and I have to get them on the right ssid depending on whether they can do 6ghz or not, and for a router this expensive, and having been out nearly 2 years now, I'd just like the thing to work correctly so I don't need to worry about whats going on with different bands and just know it's always giving me the fastest bandwidth!
I also find with MLO off and it just using smart connect/roaming, it jumps to the 5ghz band for no real reason, 6ghz still provides better speeds AND when I last looked, a better dbm as well! I checked just now and saw in wifiman it jumped from 6ghz to 5ghz, when the 6ghz was showing -55dbm and the 5ghz was showing -63dbm....which makes no sense, and 6ghz was showing a faster link speed as well.
I didn't touch the smart connect settings so it's still set to RSSI >-62 for 2.4, and <-82 for each of the other bands, at NO point anywhere here do I get a singla of -82dbm on ANY band, which should in theory result in every device being on the highest band it can support since it will always be under that threshold, but it clearly does not work even though I am always well under -82 on every device.
For the MLO I did attempt to stop it disconnecting entirely in the MLO settings by upping the "Roaming assistant" setting under professional from -70dbm to -80 thinking that might stop it losing connection entirely when using MLO, but it didn't (and it looks like that setting is only for multiple access points anyway so probably isnt relevant).
So at the moment I have turned MLO off entirely, I believe it's not likely to give any performance benefit anyway but it would be nice to just have devices connected to all of them at once and use whatever is best, instead of using smart connect roaming and jumping between them all the time (and for no good reason that I can see, I am on a single floor with hollow plasterboard walls and a decent 6ghz signal in every room anyway!).
I suspect half the replies will just say turn off smart connect and connect directly to 6ghz but thats a bit of a pain when I have guests and I have to get them on the right ssid depending on whether they can do 6ghz or not, and for a router this expensive, and having been out nearly 2 years now, I'd just like the thing to work correctly so I don't need to worry about whats going on with different bands and just know it's always giving me the fastest bandwidth!
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