

So for best coverage use 1-chain AP with 20MHz channel width. With wider channels power is dispersed more and signal strength will again be lower. It will also mean that it will sum power per whole channel width. 4x4 MIMO or higher) will present as lower signal strength. Per device means that it'll sum over all transmit antennae and using many antennae (e.g. Effective means it takes into account antenna gain so high antenna gain on transmitter will not present as higher signal strength. Notably I don’t see anything on OpnSense logs to indicate why the Netflix streaming issue happens.What country regulations limit is effective radiated power per device. This isn’t reproducible on PfSense or Untangle. The issue reverts after a few hours or days. I’ve tried resetting, reinstalling OpnSense. Also Speedtests or latency tests have never shown me anything that is less than very good (gigabit speeds / <15ms latency). My temps, cpu and ram usage also seem fine. I am running as basic a config as possible with stock firewall rules, almost no plugins except what I’ve mentioned.

This often happens 2-3 times repeatedly and stops.

Multiple times an hour, my HomeKit cameras and doorbell (which all have static IPs and roaming disabled on wireless) disconnect for a few minutes and reconnect again. This doesn’t affect any other streaming platform. Switching to cellular or another network instantly improves streaming quality. This is while, Netflix’s own Speedtest app shows me gigabit speeds. Streaming Netflix (only Netflix and no other streaming application) on any device connected to home network, be it over Wi-Fi or Ethernet streams at 720p or lower. All hardware acceleration is disabled on the system (it doesn’t boot with these enabled anyway). For troubleshooting purposes Suricata is disabled. I’m running a static IP address on WAN, DHCP running on LAN on a /24 private subnet. ISP Line -> OpnSense -> Switch -> ASUS Mesh wireless AP (4 nodes) I’ve tried troubleshooting countlessly for the past month but to no avail. As the title states, I’m facing chronic disconnection issues while running OpnSense on a custom built Ryzen box (Ryzen 2700 with 16GB of RAM and a Intel 4-port PCIe card which is used by OpnSense for WAN and LAN interfaces).
