Convexa B1300 drops connection after 3.203 firmware upgrade

Mahone · August 25, 2021, 1:34pm

Hi,

reverting to 3.105 on both routers, everything works fine again!

jbourne · August 25, 2021, 3:13pm

Cool, thanks a lot for confirming! Will downgrade it next week, then.

stavol · August 26, 2021, 9:21am

@jbourne Thanks for linking to this thread.

@Mahone Thanks for the update. Might have to do the same this weekend.

Is there any plan for a fix soon, @alzhao? Much appreciated.

alzhao · August 26, 2021, 9:36am

Yes. Checking this problem now.

stavol · August 26, 2021, 10:17am

This is my initial report: Convexa B can no longer mesh after 3.203 update

In my case, I can no longer mesh the two B1300s as well.

Thank you very much.

stavol · August 27, 2021, 2:13am

Another user complaining about mesh issue: B1300 2 x Master Nodes MESH

lizh · August 27, 2021, 8:46am

Hi stavol,

I’m in the process of validating the tests, which may take some time.

jbourne · September 1, 2021, 2:25pm

FYI: downgraded to 3.105 on Saturday, so far (5 days) mesh is rock solid.

stavol · September 6, 2021, 1:31am

Hi @lizh is there any update on this? Here’s another user using B1300 and S1300 having issues with mesh and 3.203 update. Thank you.

stavol · September 6, 2021, 1:32am

Hi. Did you downgrade on the main node only, or did you have to downgrade the sub nodes as well? Thanks.

bullza · September 6, 2021, 8:27pm

I literally registered on the forum to report this very problem.

I bought a second Convexa-B GL-B1300 router recently to create a mesh network, and I see frequent connection drops.

This happens at least once a day for me, and it is purely random.

I am also on version 3.203 for both devices.

alzhao · September 7, 2021, 3:29am

Checking mesh stability problems on B1300.

bullza · September 7, 2021, 1:00pm

Just to provide more info, the Mesh and Wifi LEDs both turn off when Wifi drops. Only the power LED is on.

stavol · September 9, 2021, 6:59am

But you were able to set-up the mesh?

I couldn’t even make them mesh with each other

limbot · September 9, 2021, 7:58am

@stavol

I’ve got to admit that the mesh on the B/S1300 is a bit tricky and there isn’t very good Gl.iNet documenation that explains clearly how to mesh.

Here’s the best procedure (well at least the one that works for me) :

Reset master node
Connect master node via WAN port
Setup master node to get a working internet connection
Scan surrounding WiFi channels to find best channels to set both the 2.4 and 5 Ghz channels to
Set the WiFi up on the master node to match appropriate channels as per 4 above
Also pay attention to bandwidth (20,40,80) depending on environment
Reset 1st slave node
Place slave node near the master node
Press the mesh button on the masternode until the second faster flash and release
Press the mesh button on the slave node until the second faster flash and release
Wait - this appears to take a completely random amount of time to get a proper mesh connection. Often more than the state 3-4 minutes above.
You can go tto the master node @ 192.168.8.1 and watch the status of the mesh ( doing browser refreshes) , you should eventually see “Wireless” change to “Mesh” on the LHS menu and you should see node 1 appear under the mesh on the mesh page. Wait until you get solid green on both nodes.
Change the mesh name and password to what you want it to be on the mesh node on the master node
If you have additional nodes, reset them, bring them close to the master node and slave node
Repeat steps 9-12 above until you see node 2, node 3 etc and solid mesh lights
Place the nodes where you want them
Find the optimal position for the nodes so that all nodes show connecting to the mesh (solid led)

Hope this helps

stavol · September 10, 2021, 2:05am

Thank you very much for the detailed reply.

But I just want to update that downgrading to 3.105 fixes the mesh issue.

I had to reset and downgrade the main and sub nodes, and immediately after that mesh works fine.

I don’t think I’ll upgrade again for a long time haha.

limbot · September 10, 2021, 2:07am

@stavol Ahh sorry, I thought you meant in general, not under 3.203

kelzamedic · October 18, 2021, 9:33pm

So, also here on this thread due to loosing Mesh capabilities with the 3.203 firmware uodate.

I’m running a S1300 (master with USB/Wan internet) and a B1300 (slave), which both worked flawlessly prior to the S1300 taking the update.

I’ve reverted the S1300 back to Firmware 3.105, but following the mesh setup, ad I have successfully in the past, I loose the ability to access the S1300 GUI when the router is in mesh mode, following the rollback to the 3.105 firmware.

Possible that a plugin got lost in the mix? Any suggestions?

alzhao · October 19, 2021, 6:20am

If S1300 is the master, you should not loose the admin panel. Except for mesh, did you make other settings?

kelzamedic · October 19, 2021, 11:24am

All that was done was updating firmware on the S1300 to 3.203. Per the GUI, no settings were saved to “prevent compatibility issues.” When I pressed and held the Mesh button until the blink pattern changed, about 5 seconds, I saw the separate 5G SSID disappear and the mesh light blinked like it was attempting to set up mesh. When reconnected to the router, I was not able to return to the GUI while it was in Mesh mode. I was able to return to the GUI as soon as I shut off the Mesh mode without changing any other settings. This process was tried with multiple computers and different OS without changes. This resulted in our reverting back to firmware 3.105, but it is behaving the exact same.

So, that’s why I’m wondering if not maintaining settings and plugins may have caused the problem, hence the question regarding a lost plugin.