Sauron
Occasional Visitor
Hello folks, longtime lurker first post. Recently i had two AC88U's in wireless mesh and merlin firmware setup for 4 years with 1.2g comcast ISP, worked flawlessly until...one day...the node failed. I decided to replace both with a AXE16000 (got it for 450usd) as Primary, and a AX11000 pro as the wireless node which i got at 250usd used. So far so good outside the 11000 was suddenly connecting at 2.4ghz on the backhaul rather than using the preferred 5ghz band. I reset and reconfigured and havent had any additional issues. I usually get around 1200-1400 mbs between the router backhaul and clients connected to the node via 2.5 gig & ethernet speed test is 800-1gig speeds. My question is the AXE16000 is still in the return period--would i be better off with another AX11000 pro to take advantage of the 5.9 band on the backhaul to squeeze out another 200mbs on my client? Trying to midmax this setup. Included the pricing on the routers i paid as that likely will influence the reponses/recommendations. And unfortunately, i cant get wired backhaul to the location. Thank you in advance!
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