Opal Unstable Wifi Repeater Mode

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Hi everyone.

I've posted a few months back about issues I was having with my Opal router on FW v.4 and I never really got it resolved, but I just made it work and dealt with the weirdness.

Now however I'm having more issues and it's getting incredibly aggravating. Basically, I will use it in Wifi repeater mode and it will work pretty good for the most part, but it will inconsistently yet regularly just drop the connection from the main Wifi network. It will usually reconnect on its own after a few seconds/minutes, but sometimes I need to go into the admin panel and manually delete the repeater network and add it back.

It's both strange and annoying. I also have other weirdness (that doesn't really affect anything though) such as the timezone keeps desynchronizing and the "Turn off LED" option, while works, doesn't seem to keep to the timings I put in and just randomly turns on and off.

To be clear, the connection to the Opal itself is strong and not flaky at all (although I still don't always see the 5GHz SSID); it's the link between the Opal and the main Wifi that's flaky. But I have other devices on the main Wifi and the connection there is rock solid, so the issue is 100% on the travel router side...

I'm up to date on FW and I've looked at all possible options and everything should work fine. It seems absolutely random.

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Yes well known, have been strugling with that since I have it.

4.3.x is very unstable ,old 3.216 was better, now the 4.7.2beta is totally different and gives a much better experience

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Ah perfect I'll give it a try, didn't really keep up with the beta releases.
Thanks!

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Well I don't know if the beta would solve my wifi issues, but I encountered a blocking bug with VPN clients that forced me to revert back to stable release unfortunately... :confused:

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I'm not testing the VPN yet. Now only just trying to get stable wifi uplink and downlink, and even that fails with all the releases I have tested, Be it failing for different reasons on different versions.

4.3.19 : unstable uplink, firewall reload on disconnect, no DFS connect, failed receiving AMPDU with many MPDU(index>31), enforced roaming with disconnect
4.3.21: unstable uplink, firewall reload on disconnect, but connects to DFS, failed receiving AMPDU with >31 MPDU, enforced roaming with disconnect
4.7.2beta: stable uplink if no BSSID with DFS around, no DFS connect, AMPDU ok, more settings in the GUI, but very very weak wifi TXpower

It's beta, so lets hope the fix comes soon.