MLO speed loss on home network
New GE-800 router, I set up the MLO wi-fi network and works just fine when first connected to it with my Galaxy S24 Ultra. I have a 1 gig down service to the house and it always stays steady as a rock with my Smart Connect network (2.4, 5 & 6 GHz combined, also LAN). But after connecting to my MLO wi-fi network for a couple hours, speed drops from close to a gig, to only a couple hundred meg. Disconnect and reconnect to MLO and speed is right back up where it should be, as judged by Ookla Speedtest each time, utilizing the same server. I live in a low interference residential neighborhood, with non-congested channels. I've tried leaving the wi-fi channel on Auto and switching to several other channels (1, 6, 11) with same results. Currently on channel 1, as it is farthest from my Arlo camera system channel. Router is in a great place for whole house wi-fi reception, so no issues there... just the annoying download speed loss after a while of little or no use. Which my non-MLO network does not experience at all. Also all cables throughout are new Cat-6 and firmware is latest version. MLO seems to be the only issue, which allows greater speed combining wi-fi 7 along with the other 3 bands at close range from router. I hope most of this made sense... though I have 30 years in computer repair, networking is not my strong point. Thank you in advance...
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thanks for the followup.
i actually had good results with this. I had an engineer reach out to me weeks ago -- right around the start of this thread -- and after some troubleshooting, he sent me a beta firmware to install on the ge800. i noted issues when my device, specifically the iPhone 16 PM, would drop the mlo connection, and even how the internet would just slow to a crawl. i sent the logs daily. eventually, he scheduled a remote session with other engineers. we just did this last week. i had them remote into the router and they did their tests. they DID find an issue that made the phone ( 16PM) lost connection to the mlo network. i could see what they were doing and i saw the line of code that was the cause of the error, so the first engineer sent me current/official firmware to load back onto my router. i am hopeful this new firmware for this device will be better, given that they were able to see the issue from my router when they remoted in.
my 16pm is on latest apple beta firmware also, so that was helpful to them.
I'm sorry you did not get anywhere with them. the engineer who reached out to me was hands-on all the way and proactive in the conversation through emails...
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