Have you tried enabling under the Basic Setup page, the Shortcut Forwarding Engine? Try each (SFE and CTF) and see if one works better than the other. I have not had a bdcm router connected to a WAN connection in many years so I don't know which may work best. _________________ - Linksys EA8500: I-Gateway, WAP/VAP 5ghz only. Features: WDS-AP, VLANs, Samba, WG, Entware - r59171
- Linksys EA8500: 802.11s Secondary w/VLAN Trunk - r59171
- Linksys MX4300: 802.11s Primary w/VLAN Trunk over 5ghz. 2.4ghz WAP/VAP only - r59171
- Linksys MX4300 (WAP/VAP (7)) Multiple VLANs over single trunk port. Entware/Samba r59171
- Linksys MR7350: WDS Station for extended VLANs over Ethernet r59171
- Linksys Velop WHW03v1 x2: OpenWRT w/GRETAP tunnel for VLANs on VAPs
- OSes: Fedora 40, 10 RPis (2,3,4,5), 23 ESP8266s: Straight from Amiga to Linux in '95, never having owned a Windows PC.