Reboot Schedule (or remote reboot?) on an AXE75 Easymesh satellite to AX73 Main Router?
My main router is an AX73 V1, running 1.3.6 Build 20240325 rel.39241(4341) on my main floor.
I have an AXE75 V1 (can't tell you the software version without undoing my EasyMesh setup, which is the issue here) as an EasyMesh satellite in a central location on the top floor, but it is mounted rather high, I'd need a complicated ladder setup to get to it. It is connected over Ethernet Backbone to the main router.
I had it set up this way for a few months without any issues. Then recently the wifi performance for clients connected to the AXE75 has started to nosedive after the router has been on for a day or two. Not sure why this took so long to start happening, but I have noticed it doesn't follow the weekly reboot schedule of the main router.
When the wifi performance is 'bad', pages just won't load when connected to it, you'll have to refresh sites 3-4 times to get them to load. Messages won't go through, videos won't start streaming on various services.. and if it works they take forever to buffer (1 minute+). When wifi is working normally though all of that is super snappy, I have 1gbit up/down Fiber to the home.
I climbed up to the AXE75 to remove the power cable and reboot it that way, but the issue returns after a couple days, every time.
If I try to connect to the web management UI on the AXE75 I get "Rejected request under RE mode."
So I've got two questions...
1) Is there really no way to reboot a router in RE mode? I can see it in the Tether app, but have no options to update/reboot. Why doesn't it inherit the reboot schedule of the main router?
Rebooting fixes it temporarily but my main question is...
2) Why would my wifi performance nosedive like this regularly on the AXE75 after a few months of flawless performance? Is there a way to tell if the hardware is damaged? Or perhaps some degradation over time is in place requiring a factory reset?
Its become a bit of a joke in the house now "Oh the router is being horrible again, can you get up there and reset it?" and it is frankly getting quite annoying.
I can get the router off the wall, reset it and start over again.. but I'm curious what I can do better to avoid this happening again.
Cheers.
For you first question. The Tether app should allow you to reboot a satellite manually. Tap on the picture that resembles the AXE75 and then tap the three dot menu in the upper right (sometimes it might take a while before all items on the screen show up). How the screen looks depends on whether you log into a satellite router directly from the "My Devices" screen of Tether or whether you enter the satellite router via the main router.
