Updated 2x BE85 v1, different networks.

Works fine overall so far.

2 observations:

1. On one upgraded unit I had a warning about the internet CAT cable not being fast enough. Never saw it before. And it uses a 1m long CAT6 cable plugged to a 2.5G modem port, it didn't make sense. Speed was normal. A reset made it disappear.

2. After a factory reset of the BE85 router and its satellites (XE75 Pro), the initial app setup experience prevented me from creating a SSID that had the name of the network before the reset, saying there already was such a network. Which is odd, since no device was broadcasting the old SSID at that point. Completing the onboarding with a different SSID and changing the SSID back to the original name right after worked fine.

  @David-TP after installing this firmware I see some of my TP Link smart devices are offline, I think it's two Tapo P300 power boards.

raven-au wrote

  @David-TP after installing this firmware I see some of my TP Link smart devices are offline, I think it's two Tapo P300 power boards.

  @David-TP Mmm ... after reverting to 1.1.1 I had similar problems with TP Link smart devices not connecting, the last two took a few hours before connecting.

I'll need to wait and see if they stay connected and maybe try this firmware again and be a bit more patient. 

  @David-TP 

i have 5 be85 

about 50 clients

main wifi 2.4+5ghz+6ghz

guest wifi 2.4+5ghz

iot wifi 2.4

2.4ghz not stable at all,  cant connect, connect but no internet, 

5ghz, 6ghz, swing up and down

connection preference not working, clients connect to far satellite instead of nearby one that has beed set in connection preference 

need to reload app evertime to set new setting,

very disappoint, after so happy using x50

sonos speakers always disconnected 

iot device very difficult to join iot network 

pls fix it ASAP 

tats 

raven-au wrote

raven-au wrote

  @David-TP after installing this firmware I see some of my TP Link smart devices are offline, I think it's two Tapo P300 power boards.

  @David-TP Mmm ... after reverting to 1.1.1 I had similar problems with TP Link smart devices not connecting, the last two took a few hours before connecting.

I'll need to wait and see if they stay connected and maybe try this firmware again and be a bit more patient. 

@David-TP I have installed this pre-release again and it's working ok this time, if there's anything you would like me to check please let me know.

I have been curious about WiFi 7 5GHz 240MHz for some time now but don't understand quite how it works.

I can say that I haven't seen it as an option on any WiFi 7 router I have so I was interested to see if it showed up on this release for the BE85, it doesn't.

If you can get/provide any information on the requirements for this, so that I know what too expect, that would be much appreciated.

Things like 12 contiguous 5GHz channels are required and whether things like 160 + 80MHz are also permitted but maybe aren't implemented, etc.

Btw, I'm located in the Austrlaia with the relevant restrictions.

  @David-TP 

thank for feedback, really need to make it work , this is my new house and i plan to use mesh network, so no lan cable to everywhere, just only lan cable to deco node 

total 5 deco be85 , actually it's 6 but one already malfunction cant be reset or reconfiged. 
 

4 are connected using 10gbps switch/lan
1 wireless 

high capacity already there

5gh,6hz, keep disconnect randomly , sometime connect buy cant ping to main deco xxx.xxx.xxx.1

only one neighbor, so no congestion

wifi channel are set to auto with network optimization done

sonos speakers connect to main wifi 5Ghz 

other IOT device connect to IOT wifi 2.4Ghz + isolated 

there will be more sonos and iot device to this network  i decided for be85 becuase it's advertised to be able to handle 200 devices and separted IOT wifi 

tatsa wrote

  @David-TP 

thank for feedback, really need to make it work , this is my new house and i plan to use mesh network, so no lan cable to everywhere, just only lan cable to deco node 

 

total 5 deco be85 , actually it's 6 but one already malfunction cant be reset or reconfige

 

I can't help but wonder how you worked out that you need 5 Deco units?

Could you describe your thought process please?

There is a risk that too many units can cause interference if their wireless signal overlap.

There can be a problem with client devices that are located within the overlap that switch between the two (or more) nodes and appear to constantly disconnect and reconnect or sometimes give up altogether.

It's not straight forward to locate nodes either given that you want them at a suitable distance from one another (there does need to be some overlap to maintain performance) but are (at least I am) constrained by power availability and plain old suitable locations.

Let's not forget house materials which can have a large impact on how far apart nodes should be.

And I've always believed that multiple story houses are a particularly difficult problem when locating nodes. If they are directly above one another that could cause a problem due to the orientation of the antennas in each unit. The antennas do have various orientations, there are often several of them and the manufacturers orient them to try to accommodate the widest coverage but a wireless signal envelope is donut shaped around the antenna not sperical. So some experimentation is needed there too I think.

In my case I have three Deco units in probably a little smaller area than you in a single level but I have brick walls and there aren't really any other viable locations so I can't really use only two although it might actually be better in my case.

So my point here is, given that I don't have connection problems with the BE85 and I have roughly twice as many devices there must be something unusual causing the problems and we need to try and think outside the box, so to speak.