Richard Li
Regular Contributor
Anybody success or failed in setting up RT-AC88U as AiMesh router and RT-AC68U as AiMesh node? I just curious if my case of failure is repeatable.
Hiya tis as follows:
Main: RT-AC68U
Node x 2: RT-AC68U
(both on ethernet backhaul)
I did a full factory reset on all the routers, before engaging the setup process from scratch, and so far it's been working flawlessly.
Only issue is that my wired WAN speed-test has been capped at around 350mbps instead of the usual 900+ I get (known bug).
However the trade off for me personally is worth it cause my old Router + AP setup under the same SSID had issues with locking onto the wrong AP with a weaker signal as I moved throughout the house.
Now it's far, far better, I can pretty much move seamlessly and the handoff is much more signal-appropriate and quicker.
Agreed. I did this and have no issues so far with dropouts / setup etc.
I had all these routers throughout the years. Right now my setup is as mentioned above, 3 x RT-AC68U
I mentioned the old routers just in reference to your statement earlier about the odd SSID, cause I'm pretty sure that's not the intended default.
So all 3 the same router, obviously no problem at all. Just think it maybe buggy when mixing and matching.
I have an ac88u aimesh router with ac68u node and got it to work for a few minutes but then lost the node. It seemed as if the setting changes I made to the router (setting manual dhcp, and other settings) made aimesh no longer work. I was only able to get it to find the ac68u after a reset and initialization. If I did not make any changers (or as few as possible) I was able to find the ac68u. After pressing the search button it would search for quite a while and eventually found it after some resets of the ac68u. Once I made several changes to the ac88u (dhcp and such) pressing search, spinning would end after a few seconds. Seemed as if it was encountering an error and just quitting. Before when the ac88u was unchanged it would check for a while then show a dialog box explaining it could not find a node. I have since reverted back to just using the ac68u as an ap.
Just thinking of how may I track down what is the root cause of my RT-AC88U cannot search my RT-AC68U as AiMesh node. Anyway to enable searching logs? Any command line that I may use to explore the problem?
Could you send the feedback by Feedback function ? Please checked 1. System Log 2. WiFi Log.
I had a very difficult time with this combination... I was finallly able to get them meshed, but the AC68U dropped after approx. 6 hours. The AC88U couldn't find it after multiple Search sequences.Anybody success or failed in setting up RT-AC88U as AiMesh router and RT-AC68U as AiMesh node? I just curious if my case of failure is repeatable.
Is there any documentation or white paper that explain a little deeper how AiMesh works? I would like to better understand:
- How the 3 bands from my RT-AC5300 are exposed on the RT-AC68U that is 2 bands?
- Which of the 3 bands in the 5300 is being used for the communication with the 68? or any other node?
- Is there a web interface to connect to the node to do administration?
- Are all 3 of my existing Wireless networks on the 5300 exposed trough the 68? how if it is only dual band?
- Is there a way to force a client to connect to the node or router? How can you differentiate the signal?
Thanks
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BWnsvwZKcNnyNjcP-iEURZCJ9_7ao0KZ/view?usp=sharingThanks. But I am hoping you can help to upload the firmware for the RT-AC5300, not GT-AC5300. Kindly help if you can. Thanks and Appreciate.
+1
I would very much like to have some info around those questions!
Sorry but I thought you had somehow logged into the node and restored your settings there. When I changed my 68U from Merlin to Asus 384 firmware I was almost expecting the saved settings wouldn't copy over. For me it worked fine, including several port forwarding rules I had setup.Did I mention anything about trying to access the router through the node?
Let me start again. Maybe this time be clearer.
Initial conditions: Two identical routers. Router A & Router B. I set Router A to be the AI Mesh Router, and fully configured. I attempted to set Router B as an AI Mesh Node, but Router A was not finding it.
I realised I needed to flash both routers to get things working. But my wife was using the network though the media server. That gives me about a 30 second window before the buffered data runs and my changes would crash her video.
Solution: Save the configuration from Router A. Flash Router B, since it currently was not in use. Load the configuration from router A and make the swap.
Problem: Thirty seconds after swapping Router B in place of Router A my wive's video crashed. Plex was no longer working at all with the Roku...
Analysis: Plex was failing because port 32400 was not being forwarded from the Media Server to the WAN. Added the port forwarding rule into router B resolved the issue.
Conclusion: The port forwarding rule, which should have been part of the save configuration from router A was not loaded onto router B as part of the restore load.
I'm also having al lot of troubles with AiMesh.
Router 1: RT-AC88U (Mesh Router)
Router 2: RT-AC68U (Mesh Node)
Both routers updated to latest firmware. Factory reset both devices.
Configured AC88U, paired with de AC68U. Changed IP range from 192.168.1.x to 192.168.50.x. Rebooted the AC88U and lost config with the node (node is in range and is also wired like described).
Contact Asus Support and they told not to change IP. So did some other configurations. After a few days, I lost contact with the node again. No mather what I did, I couldn't reconnect anymore. Had to do a factory reset. So back to the basic settings (SSID, Guest SSID and nothing more). Stable for 2 day, but this is not the way I want to protect and setup my environment.
This happens to mine quite a few times a day. I work from home and can really notice it. My laptop is connected via cat5, which is stable. My phone sitting next to me is on wifi and disxonnects several times a day. Different chromecast audio disconnects with the synced Pandora a bit. In addition my smart thing hub gets disconnected a couple times a day.
Hey hotsauce, will you please be sure to report back in a day or so on your rollback reliability with the existing firmware? I'm about ready to pull the plug on aimiesh as well. Spending too much time fiddling with this. Wife and kids are getting slightly irritated. Yesterday I came home from skiing and my wife had lost internet access on her work laptop--all SSID's. I went to fix, but found I couldn't even log into the main router from the web UI. I had to physically reboot the router, node and AP (66U). I can understand this is fairly big feature improvement and it's relatively new, but it doesn't seem like it's fully baked yet. I'm hoping they get there though. I really do.
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