M8550 5G Router
I recently purchased the new TP-Link M8550 . Hardware version is v1 and firmware is up to date.
On the paper this is a very good (and expensive I'd say) piece of hardware, but in the practical use I found some very bad limitations.
On wifi I started loosing packets pinging the router itself (1-2 ping drops every 10-20 seconds) on some conditions:
- this happens only on WiFi (doesn't happen with the ethernet cable)
- this happens only if used with battery or without battery and in a normal USB port (doesn't happen if I use the shipped original AC/DC transformer)
So I found this solution that seems have fixed the issue:
- set a fixed Channel and fixed Channel width for all the wifi I use (I use at the same time 2.4GHz and 5GHz)
- put the "balanced" mode energy for wifi
This is a bit limiting, but seems working.
I am a bit deceived by this router because for the price (payed 300 Euros on Amazon) I didn't expect this kind of issues, especially if used with the battery (is it not born to be used in this way?).
Also this little guy gets hot as a cooking pan, so using it with the battery makes it going in Energy Saver mode in half an hour (it means only 4G). So that's why I want to use it without the battery.
I work in a van and I don't want to keep 24/7 active my DC-AC inverter (so I could use the original transformer), so I am using it on a 18W usb 12V port. I tried also my macbook transformer and didn't work, only with the original one.