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    Mixing AiMesh models. Is the system limited by the unit with the least functionality?

    AIUI, the main problem with asymmetrical AIMesh setups is that the AIMesh GUI will only show you control settings for radios that exist on the primary node. So, avoid setups where the remotes have radios that don't exist on the primary: the best-case scenario is those radios do nothing, and the...
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    Wifi router specs affecting congestion

    That would prevent exactly one of the four trouble scenarios I listed. Your ISP, or the legal authorities, will still not perceive any difference between you and your tenant. Not only is that bad for you, but any remotely tech-savvy tenant will politely decline this setup, because they...
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    Wifi router specs affecting congestion

    I think you need to think about this plan in terms of "what could go wrong?". Some bad days you could wake up to: Some random hacker manages to break into your tenant's laptop and cleans out their bank account. Tenant sues you for not providing adequate firewall protection. (Hardly matters...
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    2.5Gbit to 1Gbit

    I would blame that 100% on the NIC, not the switch. It is not the older tech's fault if the newer tech fails to interoperate with decades-old specs. Having said that, if you're hoping to get to better-than-1Gbps performance, then yes you need to replace the switch.
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    2.5Gbit to 1Gbit

    We've gotten spoiled by the fact that 1Gbps UTP ethernet is such well-settled technology: barring faulty patch cables or the like, most pairings of devices have Just Worked for a decade or two. The higher speed ratings seem not to be sorted out quite as well yet. I've not run into the exact...
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    How to troubleshoot intermittent, slow speeds over the internet?

    Those results are all over the map. If you don't explain what conditions each test was run under, it's hard to make sense of them.
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    Asus vs. Orbi

    I had an Orbi RBK853 system, I think exactly the same as yours except 2 satellites not one, back in 2021. I was enchanted with it for about a month, because it was a big performance improvement over the Apple Airports I had before it. My level of enchantment went downhill to the point where I...
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    Link DOWN - Losing connection with the router

    I'm wondering about a flaky ethernet cable --- they do go bad sometimes for no apparent reason.
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    SOHO network upgrade: XT9 vs XT12 vs DECO vs switches

    I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you care about the speed of the connection from the local NAS to the desktop? I'd try to get them both plugged into the same switch, preferably a 2.5G switch. That won't help much if the NAS can only do 1G, but it sounded like it might be able to...
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    Unmanaged to managed switch

    I'm fairly concerned by this setup. I'm not surprised that your managed switch can run a DHCP server --- that's fairly common. I am surprised that you seem to be relying on it for NAT and firewall service, because switches are not normally able to do that at all, let alone do it...
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    Nominal WiFi Speeds

    Yeah, as @Tech9 's numbers show, the best real-world single-client throughput you can hope for is about 2/3rds of the nominal Tx rate. There are a number of reasons for that such as packet overhead, but one of the big ones is that a wifi channel is a shared medium, so you can't just blast away...
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    GT-AXE16000 UNII-4 Question ( wireless backhual XT8s)

    Does look like that, doesn't it? Although I would not put a lot of faith in that graphic being 100% accurate, because they obviously didn't vet it very carefully --- e.g. the channel counts at the left make no sense. One thing you could check is whether AIMesh on the AXE16000 lets you...
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    GT-AXE16000 UNII-4 Question ( wireless backhual XT8s)

    ASUS enabled U-NII-4 on the XT8s about two years ago. If they haven't done it by now for AXE16000, I'd say it's a safe bet that they won't ever. Maybe the chipset on that device can't support those frequencies.
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    Ubiquiti network or all-in-one router?

    Do you really not understand the difference here? The key point is the response. The arstechnica post you cited about Cisco 0-days says that "Cisco has released security updates that patch the vulnerabilities and is urging all ASA users to install them promptly." When have you seen ASUS...
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    1.5Gb fiber connection with 3 mesh nodes. Clients getting ~500Mbps. Setting or nature of AIMesh?

    6ms is OK for a ping from a wireless client, but that wasn't what you showed in the first screenshot. Also I think you're too quick to dismiss the numbers "during upload/download" as being OK. The version of speedtest.net that I have doesn't show those stats, but I tried to simulate it by...
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    1.5Gb fiber connection with 3 mesh nodes. Clients getting ~500Mbps. Setting or nature of AIMesh?

    Those ping numbers are crazy high (and even more so in your previous ookla screenshot). I suggest worrying less about the throughput and more about why that's happening. If you can fix the ping problem the throughput may take care of itself --- and in any case, RTT that awful will have obvious...
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    MOCA 2.5 Help Needed - Why Are my Speeds Slow in 1 Direction?

    To be clear, the mini's NIC is 10Gbps (and plugged into a 10G port on the first switch). I don't have another 2.5G machine at the moment, other than a Ugreen USB/ethernet adapter that I don't trust at all for this purpose and some APs that lack enough CPU oomph to sustain 2.5G iperf3 sessions...
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    MOCA 2.5 Help Needed - Why Are my Speeds Slow in 1 Direction?

    I can now positively confirm that. I finally sprung for another Cisco switch, and with those switches on both ends of the MoCA link I get nearly-clean 2.35Gbps iperf3 results in both directions, either single-stream or multi-stream. Performance of the ScreenBeam and ASUS MoCA adapters remains...
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    Is this a smart and reasonable layout for a home network?

    Yeah, that's what an access point is. You just have to be careful that you're buying only an access point, and not buying hardware you don't need. In particular, consumer "wireless routers" also incorporate router functionality, which is wasted hardware for you if you have a wired router at...
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    Is this a smart and reasonable layout for a home network?

    If you mean that you plan to run cables to those points and then put wireless APs there, then yeah this will probably work all right ... but that kind of setup is not what people typically call a mesh. Usually that term implies wireless backhaul, which is what I was worried about getting signal...
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