I swear I'm not brand new, long-time reader but first time poster, I just retired my N66U running Merlin's build because my neighbors have 160MHz spectrum hogging monsters on across 2.4g, 36 AND 149 5g which measure -62dBm in the center of my home. We have basic country cable internet fully utilized via traditional QoS to prioritize company VPN'd WFH laptops on 5GHz guest network where all other traffic is appropriately tiered, no gaming, family TV 1080p streaming, and 4x IoTs on 2.4GHz guest network. I have no issues leaving WiFi 6/6E enabled, Auto standard but 802.11ax capable.
My question is simple: Should the WIFI *professional* settings propagate to nodes?
Background, research, steps taken: I have modified beacon intervals and DTIM for video conferencing 5GHz and reduce strain on the minimalistic IoT HW, WIFI cell calls are on 5GHz too. I ssh'd into my node, tail'd the syslog to watch its boot process/wifi reset, and then checked the current phy properties: Default beacon intervals. Did a wl bi for w0 and w1 but I don't want to do that every time. I could modify the config files in /tmp/ but that's tedious too and the whole thing makes me wonder what else isn't propagating, or even ditching AiMesh but I simply do not have the time to tinker with this right now. The bss colors are all in sync so it's getting the important stuff.
I figured out that I have to keep WPS enabled because the node appeared to have difficulty grabbing configs when ethernet backhaul was enabled. I did the whole thing, it "self-healed", all that. The node broadcasts are closer to that of the primary router but I want them the same. If the stock FW does not propagate the nuanced professional settings, can anyone confirm whether the Merlin build would? (I've read the info on keeping nodes stock, primary can have Merlin.)
My question is simple: Should the WIFI *professional* settings propagate to nodes?
Background, research, steps taken: I have modified beacon intervals and DTIM for video conferencing 5GHz and reduce strain on the minimalistic IoT HW, WIFI cell calls are on 5GHz too. I ssh'd into my node, tail'd the syslog to watch its boot process/wifi reset, and then checked the current phy properties: Default beacon intervals. Did a wl bi for w0 and w1 but I don't want to do that every time. I could modify the config files in /tmp/ but that's tedious too and the whole thing makes me wonder what else isn't propagating, or even ditching AiMesh but I simply do not have the time to tinker with this right now. The bss colors are all in sync so it's getting the important stuff.
I figured out that I have to keep WPS enabled because the node appeared to have difficulty grabbing configs when ethernet backhaul was enabled. I did the whole thing, it "self-healed", all that. The node broadcasts are closer to that of the primary router but I want them the same. If the stock FW does not propagate the nuanced professional settings, can anyone confirm whether the Merlin build would? (I've read the info on keeping nodes stock, primary can have Merlin.)