Very nice to have you back! We all appreciate your thorough approach to content.
I too have been having a lot of issues with my AP One Ax. After documenting my tests with and without the AP on Clever Mariner (and feeling very smug about my setup), I have had to do more tinkering with the AP than anything else in my setup.
The worst has been the AP inexplicably dropping off the mesh in a wireless mesh setup. This seems to happen if the AP loses power for some reason. The only way to solve it has been to be to reconnect the AP to wired LAN and make my br1 pro 5g re-sync the AP config.
I realize running a wireless mesh setup is far from ideal, but it’s advertised to work, and I’m pretty disappointed.
Some nights when I’m ready to throw the AP overboard, I am reminded that I have absolutely no issues running a wireless mesh with a non-fancy, non-enterprise tp-link deco system at our land home. Land home is set up for AirBNB, the house is historic from 1780, and running cables is…challenging.
This is my second big hiccup in working with Peplink products. My initial setup was built around the Max Transit Cat 18. And I ran into endless issues with the processor being severely underpowered to handle their advertised features. If we had a few folks on the boat trying to use Speedfusion, the processor was always pegged at 100%, and performance of all devices suffered mightily.
I’m 85% convinced that I should stop relying on the BR1 Pro 5G to handle my cellular modem, router, and bonding/smooting all in one. There’s a few other bonding solutions that seem interesting now, and we seem to have to upgrade cellular modem tech every few years anyway.
Maybe the solution is going SaaS for bonding/smoothing, married to an openwrt router, and a separate cellular modem (that can be more cost effectively be upgraded)?