Recent content by Krusty

alternatively could you please clarify your statement. above 80+ on one band on one router, I could see as being a problem (although not necessarily one documented in any way by ASUS) I find it hard to believe however that you cannot build a home network that supports 80+ 2.4Ghz devices using...

Altnerative question. given i can do wired backhaul, is there a mesh system that works for a large number of devices? (this seems like it should be a solved problem)

Well i don't want them on a single band, that was the point; nor do i need more than 20-30 on a single router, and as many of these are LIFX bulbs, i hope they aren't that chatty. My question is why

I know this question has probably been asked before, but ii haven't managed to find much of an answer. I have an AIMesh2 setup with an AC5300 with three AC68U nodes. I am trying to get decent coverage throughout and at the exteremeties for my house (no close neighbors). I have a lot (maybe 80+)...

thank you @drabisan ... I had assumed this setting meant what it ought to :)

I actually have it forced to ethernet (this may in fact be part of the problem if there is/was (prior to the latest firmware) a bug in the routeset up)... though it was auto-detecting ethernet anyway. My guess (I'm not well versed enough to fully evaluate the routing rules to spot errors) was...

I am not currently MAC filtering. I have 2.4GHz down on the main router (which is roughly equivalent to the MAC filter on that freq), but that is more because many of my bulbs seem to want to connect there over the nodes (which have better signal) instead of network stability issues. It may be...

Interesting... yeah it seems like you should have to filter both. Just to be clear, you are filtering which MACs where? I guess from the GUI is fine.

Well it is Boxing day, the traditional day of rebuilding the house wireless networks after xmas. As such I have risked all, and added the 3rd AiMesh node back. So far so good (fingers crossed). I did make one significant change which was to adjust wiring so that all 3 nodes are now connected...

I am running a ton of LIFX bulbs (newer as they are RGB) without WMM disabled. @thobux did LIFX support specifically tell you to turn it off or were you going by the instructions? :-) Also what type of LIFX bulbs are you using, and what specific problems are you seeing... if they remain visible...

I have about 40 LIFX bulbs and AiMesh (and HomeKit). @thobux would be interested to hear how you get on... (I used the suggested LIFX settings on 2.4Ghz only - and yeah WMM is Enabled)

Hey JDB... I should probably have mentioned that I am running with 3 different SSIDs for 5/5/2.4 and no smart connect... sounds like that is another variable you may have. Note also that it is a router + 3 nodes that breaks for me, not router + 2 nodes... though in all fairness as per other...

Actually I'm not 100% for sure that MAC filtering is required, it seems that whenever I change MAC filters in any way, i may need to let/help the network sort itself out again. I will risk again in the future trying it without MAC filtering, and giving it more of a chance to right itself...

I upgraded the firmware, but left the MAC filtering in place... all was OK - a day later, I turned off the MAC filtering, and the problems came back. Therefore it seems this workaround is still needed. Next thing to try is to see if the MAC filter fixes the problem with my currently disabled...

I think the point was that roaming should be off anyway. Of course this might be roamast for 2.4GHz - you can check your MAC address against the MAC address of the NIC in question. Also, check out...