Bugs in 200.16.70.325. Beware! I just downgraded.

[rajdude]

On my R550 AP, I upgraded from 200.15.6.112.54 to 200.16.7.0.325 and encountered so many issues that I downgraded. These are the issues:

• Older clients do not stay connected.

I have older clients which are 802.11b only. They no longer stay connected. They lose connection after a few hours and have to be rebooted. At the older firmware level, they were stable.

• Travel router in client mode no longer works

A TPlink travel router which I use in the client mode for a very old internet radio no longer works. DHCP passthrough stopped working. I believe this is a known issue, judging from other threads.

• TVs constantly lose connection

I have lots of Android TV devices, every few hours they lose connection for a few seconds. It is as if the AP is doing band balancing and encouraging them to connect to 5G. I turned that feature off in the R550, but the clients still lose connection. I do want those clients to use the 5G band so interference from things like my microwave oven does not happen.

I recommend stay away from 200.16.7. This has wasted hours of my time, troubleshooting, until I decided to downgrade

[robert_berki]

.402 is out today, maybe it fixes those problems?

[Squozen]

You can go first. I’ll stay on 200.14. 😅

[rajdude]

Hmm, maybe I should downgrade further (to 200.14). Even after downgrading to 200.15.6.112.54, some devices, especially that TP-LINK travel router which I use in client mode for a very old internet radio, does not work. I swear it was working earlier.

[cfd2]

Decided to give 200.16 (200.16.7.0.402) another chance and upgraded from 200.15. Like with older 200.16 version, my 5 GHz devices get disconnected from the network all the time. Nothing is fixed.