Switching from an older Access Point (a router in AP mode) to a new Asus (tri-band, WiFi 7, 2.5Gb/s sockets, on offer recently) has - so far anyway - restored PC Internet connect time with no flashing network icon on restarts and wakes.
I prefer to keep the ISP router attached to ONT but wired to an AP sitting closer to devices - delivering LAN sockets and strong WIFI without the issues many post about. If the new AP hadn't worked other work-arounds to try were - reducing the DHCP lease time to get more IP refreshes or running this command at startup -
ipconfig /release ethernet; ipconfig /renew ethernet
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However the hub 7+ still has issues. It's always sluggish opening screens and there's a real delay between saving changes and the WIFI updating to match. To arrange things after swapping AP, I tried to make some changes on the hub's Main and Compatible WIFI pages but the hub became increasingly confused, crashed, restarted, but corrupted so I couldn't get WIFI working again - so I had to Factory Reset the hub, taking care to then make only minimal changes.
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Although IPv6 is working, after that hub Factory Reset there are observations - the setting "IPv6 network status:" is now showing as Enabled instead of Disabled as before. The number of IPv6 addresses listed for the PC still accumulates. Multiple IPv6 addresses (i.e. more than 2) can also be seen in Windows - but don't all match those reported by the hub.
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Still waiting for the new hub 7+ f/w mentioned above. In general a gradual roll-out is good - but given it's so hard to view the released product state of the hub 7+ positively please don't delay fixes any longer.
