P Nelson wrote: > My house is a single story, 1500 square feet or 140 square meters. It > is wood stud construction, with lath and paster, and some drywall. > The router is located in an upper cabinet in the middle of the house. > When I ran the ethernet wire, I planned to put the router in the best > possible location. Locating the Wifi in a good spot can make a big > difference. > > Multi story does present a challenge of horizonal and vertical. Many of > the ASUS routers have external antennas which can be adjusted to try and > optimize signal.
Thank you for this, definitely helps - yes indeed, three floors and masonry walls have proved to be a pain when it comes to wireless. I would like to locate the router in a better location but due to where the phone line (and so internet connection) comes in and also because this is where the two wired connections go from it is not easy to change this (would if I could!). P Nelson wrote: > Could the existing wiring (I assume ethernet) be used for the back haul > between the upstairs and downstairs in a mesh network? This would give > you a single SSID and devices are supposed to have better sucess > switching to the wifi source with the best signal. Be creative with > your old wifi router because in access point mode (DHCP server turned > off) and wifi turned off, it can be used as an ethernet switch. Yes indeed, this was my plan initially. My old N56U is not AiMesh compatible but my AC68U should be - although as mentioned there are issues with the AC68U in mesh mode and I've read opinion that I trust on SNB that it isn't advised to use the AC68U in AiMesh due to its age. The AC86U I bought but have never used *-should-* work fine, but then I'm reluctant to use it in an essential role as I believe it is prone to crapping out. It might not, but it also might.... P Nelson wrote: > Here is my write-up of my attempt to use ASUS mesh network on two > RT-AX55. I had issues with the stability of the mesh network due to > possible equipment problems. I ended up returning the two RT-AX55 and > getting the one RT-AX56. > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?114996-ASUS-RT-AX55-Mesh-Router%92s-Compatibility-with-SB-Radios&highlight=rt-ax55 Really interesting to read this thread, hadn't seen it before - once again the experience you had with Asus support makes me mad that they can sell a product as having backward compatilbility with a/b/g/n yet be unable to help when there are myriad examples of problems with 2.4GHz devices. Such a shame - some might say it should be expected that 12 year old hardware has issues with the latest and greatest wifi broadcasters, but in that case don't advertise backwards compatibility!?! Your final line of post #1 gives me hope though: P Nelson wrote: > The important point is that with a separate 2.4 and 5 Ghz bands and > WiFi6 disabled on the 2.4 Ghz, the SB radios worked without any > problems. Have said before but it is a shame that the ZenWifi range doesn't play nicely with older wireless devices, as they are a great solution otherwise from what I can tell - a lot of horror stories from early adopters but the platform looks to have matured well. It always bugs me not knowing why things are so I would very much like to know the reason for the difference in ZenWifi vs ACxxX routers when it comes to legacy support. But I'm not sure if I will find this information! Overall I am wondering whether the matter will be taken out of our hands as SB owners due to neighbours upgrading to wifi6 by default as time goes by. It would be great to have some kind of replacement lined up but I just don't see it currently. Maybe I'll end up trying the aluminium foil method :) In the meantime it really feels like I will by buying an AX86U and seeing how it goes, maybe getting an XD4 node for downstairs if there is still a gap in coverage, although bearing in mind the fact that the XD4 might not work with the kitchen SB radio.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slurmsmckenzie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69467 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112167 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
