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Old 12-01-2017, 10:46 PM   #36993
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Quick google points to an incompatibility with specific wireless NICs. Crazy. I've never heard of this but it makes sense. A bug in all NICs with the qualcomm atheros qca61x4a/QCA6174 chipset does not play nicely with the router. Even open-source firmware authors are/were scrambling.

http://forum.tp-link.com/showthread....Killer-adapter

https://forum.lede-project.org/t/con...-released/1129


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Second link is how I kind of pieced together my issue. All good, push comes to shove, I'll splurge a bit on a different router that doesn't run on this chipset.

Bums me out though, since this router is a decent price (120 cad, but I got it on sale for 90 taxes in yesterday) and has good performance.

Edit: I might play around with the dual band settings, and see if I can get stable performance with 2.4 and 5ghz enabled, but that sounds like a vacation kind of thing. ALSO, one thing I failed to mention, is that the wifi started getting REALLY bad after I set up a google home mini. I wonder if that was doing some of the overloading on the 5ghz band that seems to be the achilles heel of this router.
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