Asus AI Mesh configuration problem
Asus AI Mesh configuration problem
Hello, I got the Asus AIMesh system but either I'm noob or these devices are crap.
So got 3 devices from Asus, they're basically all routers but there's 1 main router and 2 nodes of the AI Mesh. They're all connected to each other using WIFI connection. My issue is, even though I can get the signal to them to be the best they can't seem to hit the maximum speed contracted to my ISP (which was their main purpose).
The devices are: 1 RT-AX55 2 ZenWiFi AX Mini
Basically I set up to connect this way:
Main router -> node 1 -> node 2.
My main issue is that, the node 2 sometimes loses connection and instead of connecting to the node 1, it connects to the main router, meaning its signal drops quality a lot. To fix this issue I must reset the node 2 from the admin panel.
Do you fine people have any advise on how to get the best out of this devices or are they just crap?
It looks like you might be able to solve the second problem by pinning an up link?
The first problem is maybe that there are 2 bands to use here (5 GHz and 2.4 GHz), but you have 3 links:
- Device to last router
- Last router to middle router
- Middle router to main router
They can't all be on different bands, so if the links that are on the same band end up using overlapping channels, that can cut the maximum throughput down from what it would be for uncontested use of whatever channel width is used.
Also, one of these links is probably on 2.4 GHz. There's really only one 80 MHz channel there, and also you shouldn't just use the whole thing because your neighbors have wifi and you have Bluetooth.
Here's a good reference for channel capacity.
I don't think you are physically able to push more than 600 megabits through this setup, using all of 2.4 GHz and ignoring interference between the links. If you use just half the 2.4 GHz band, and you have to stop half the time while your neighbor and/or one of the other links in the system transmits, maybe you would get 143 Mbps? And Internet is indeed often faster then that now.
Maybe you can move all the links to non-overlapping parts of 5 GHz? But the wifi bands are only so wide and everyone has to share, so it's not really feasible to get them to push as much data as a physically isolated fiber or coax Internet link can physically do.
It looks like you might be able to solve the second problem by pinning an up link?
I actually already did that, but the system ignores my configuration constantly. The node 2 loses connection to node 1 and reconnects to the main router. I must restart the node 2 manually for it to reconnect.
Thank you for the remaining tips I will check if I can check it.