All right, my bad - I searched using the keyword "drop" and didn't see the existing thread Intermittent loss of Wi-Fi since upgrading to 386.7 - so I added this unneeded one.
OTOH, the problem is still a real one, and I expect I will revert all the way back to 386.5_2 if things don't get better... as I live in an area with marginal T-Mobile signal, I depend on WiFi calling - so I am now occasionally missing calls.
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I started noticing network problems with my Google Pixel 5 with 386.7 - it would just spontaneously lose its WiFi connection to my 88U (and hence its internet connection).
The only way to get it back without a restart of the phone was to disable WiFi on the phone, and then re-enable it - at this point, it would immediately scan, find my 88U, and [re-] connect.
So I was of course happy to see the relatively quick release of 386.7_2, hoping that it was coming out at least in part to address this... unfortunately, neither the change list nor the actual behavior appears to address this issue.
I recall there was a previous issue that affected my Echo devices on my network, where they would seem to randomly lose their connection to the WiFi network - but on that one, I wasn't alone, and after the issue (ASUS's) was addressed, all was good.
Should I go back to an older [pre-386.7] release, just to see if that "fixes" things? OTOH, if nobody else is seeing this, it *could* be an issue with my phone.
Finally - and maybe this should be a separate thread? - I am noticing that my 88U's RAM usage is steadily increasing... in releases prior to 386.7_2 (maybe before 386.7), my RAM usage was "always" @ 49%. The only thing that would make a significant impact on this was accessing the attached USB SSD drive - this could drive the utilization pretty much all the way to 100%, although I assumed it was just using the space for cacheing said SSD drive. But since I got my Synology NAS, I haven't used that attached SSD for ages.
But I am now sitting @ 69%, and I expect it will keep going up(?) - yes, it still starts @ 49% after a reboot, but doesn't stay there.
Is anyone else noticing a difference in the RAM utilization on their router?
OTOH, the problem is still a real one, and I expect I will revert all the way back to 386.5_2 if things don't get better... as I live in an area with marginal T-Mobile signal, I depend on WiFi calling - so I am now occasionally missing calls.
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I started noticing network problems with my Google Pixel 5 with 386.7 - it would just spontaneously lose its WiFi connection to my 88U (and hence its internet connection).
The only way to get it back without a restart of the phone was to disable WiFi on the phone, and then re-enable it - at this point, it would immediately scan, find my 88U, and [re-] connect.
So I was of course happy to see the relatively quick release of 386.7_2, hoping that it was coming out at least in part to address this... unfortunately, neither the change list nor the actual behavior appears to address this issue.
I recall there was a previous issue that affected my Echo devices on my network, where they would seem to randomly lose their connection to the WiFi network - but on that one, I wasn't alone, and after the issue (ASUS's) was addressed, all was good.
Should I go back to an older [pre-386.7] release, just to see if that "fixes" things? OTOH, if nobody else is seeing this, it *could* be an issue with my phone.
Finally - and maybe this should be a separate thread? - I am noticing that my 88U's RAM usage is steadily increasing... in releases prior to 386.7_2 (maybe before 386.7), my RAM usage was "always" @ 49%. The only thing that would make a significant impact on this was accessing the attached USB SSD drive - this could drive the utilization pretty much all the way to 100%, although I assumed it was just using the space for cacheing said SSD drive. But since I got my Synology NAS, I haven't used that attached SSD for ages.
But I am now sitting @ 69%, and I expect it will keep going up(?) - yes, it still starts @ 49% after a reboot, but doesn't stay there.
Is anyone else noticing a difference in the RAM utilization on their router?
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