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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    Happy to report my IoT devices connection was good in the last couple of days. Apparently the change of channels did the trick (and specifically channel 1 on 2.4ghz as this is the setting for main router AP which the majority of devices still stick to) as there seems to be no other material...
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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    Thanks for all the advice, guys. After adding the AC86U as an AP and setting up the channels I reduced the TX power to balanced on each (was max by default), I had no connection issues so far. Some devices roamed to the new AP, but the majority remained with the main router. Will see how it...
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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    Definitely true :) But minding I have doubts re. my AC86U health I reckon spending a couple of hours resetting the lights (and then resetting them again tomorrow if it does not help) would not be a wise time investment. My way of thinking is that unless I constantly see all the devices...
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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    I just set up AC86U as an AP and split the channels per above. I understand it's suboptimal compared to AC86U as a main router and AC88U as an AP, but to my understanding the difference should be not that material for my use case (pls. correct me if I'm wrong). I kept SSIDs the same for now as...
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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    You mean AC86U on 2.4ghz channel 1 + 5ghz channel 36 and AC88U on 2.4ghz channel 11 + 5ghz channel 149? Would this prevent all 2.4ghz devices joining a single AP?
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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    Thanks guys, I know what you mean and wanted to get away from WiFi as much as possible. Said 40 WiFi clients is the smaller half of the overall zoo, the remainder are mostly Zigbee, and a couple of Z-Wave and 433mhz devices. So basically 8-port switch + 2 APs to start with? Is there a way to...
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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    The area is around 120m2 with relatively thin walls (no issues for wifi coming through). The router is right in the center of this space. Would I really need to APs to cover this area or is it to spread the devices between them? Should this be 2.4hz on one AP and 5hz on the other (as this way...
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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    I started with just AC86U which was unstable, so I added AC88U that I already had from my previous apartment where I did have coverage issues. Just wanted to try it out, but it didn't cure things (made a bit better though - could be that AC88U as a node just took the burden off the failing 2.4hz...
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    Best setup for smart home / IoT

    Hi all, looking for advice on how to upgrade my current setup of (apparently failing) AC86U as main router + AC88U as an AiMesh node with a focus on stable operation of WiFi-enabled smart home devices (i.e. slow 2.4hz clients). I'm currently at around 40 WiFi clients (most being at 2.4hz) and...
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