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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    Signal is -46, printer and ATA use almost no data. Based on what OzarkEdge said, I was thinknig maybe there's some sort of persistent connection/data flow between the 2 routers that might cause problems if they are not "staggered". At this point, I don't think I have to touch anytihng and...
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    This is very helpful and how I have things set up now, thanks! It's connected via 5G and signal strenth is around -45. Printer and ATA appear to be working. I'm pretty confident that the AX86U, positioned where it is now, will provide acceptable coverage to wherever I need. I do not recall...
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    I had some time to test some more things out this morning. I moved the AX86U upstairs. Speed outside when connected via 5G was way better. Even with -80dBm, I was getting 200M+ download. That's much better than when I was connected to the AC68U that was upstairs. Seems like my downstairs...
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    That's great to know I'll probably go that route. Is there much case to future proof to get a WiFi 7 router or, again, I'll not really see any real world difference? And if I did want to consider that, what's better between the BE92U and BE86U? They seem to be the same retail price, but the...
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    What extra does the Pro offer exactly? Isn't it a faster CPU or that's not going to really matter, even if I'm using VPN or something CPU intensive? If I'm not going to notice any real-world differnce, then sure, I guess I'l just make the new router the Mesh node.
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    I meant devices, not nodes, sorry. And if I get an AX86U Pro, unless I don't care about using my current non-pro AX86U as the main router, I don't see any way that I'm going to avoid going through a whole setup process to manually mirror the old router settings onto the new router. Still that...
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    Most of my devices are upstairs and that would give me better covered out back, but I don't think coverage downstairs would be acceptable then, but it's possible, I'd have to test....but.....see below... I do have some wired devices downstairs. I could probably move some hardware around to...
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    Still evaluating the new laptop with wifi 7 disabled on the laptop adapter. No drops yet, but ever intermittent. Still the range of the AC68U isn't right and I need to replace that. So best to replace that with another AX86U and worry about Wifi 7 another time? Also, wondering if there's a...
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    I do not see anywhere to get the driver from Realtek. I have the current driver that is listed on the machine specific Lenovo page. The network adapter is a Realtek RTL8922AE.
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    I need to test a bit more thoroughly, but, yes seems like it works fine with the AC68U cut, though the AX86U is too far away to provide covered in some parts of the house. I was just pinging the main and mesh routers and it was a mess of high latency with packet loss when conencted ot the...
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    RT-AX86U - What to pair with for AIMesh?

    I have an RT-AX86U as my main router with an RT-AC68U paired as AIMesh node using Ethernet uplink. I just got a new laptop wirh a Realteak Wifi 7 chip and I'm having lots of problems with losing the connection ocassionally, even if I'm right near the RT-AC68U. I think it might not be playing...
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    ASUS RT-AX86U Network Share Problem

    This worked! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/filecab/accessing-a-third-party-nas-with-smb-in-windows-11-24h2-may-fail/4154300 I first tried Set-SmbClientConfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $false -Force in powershell, but, without a reboot, that didn't work, so I guess that didn't...
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    ASUS RT-AX86U Network Share Problem

    I am on Win 11 24H2, but so is the laptop that can connect. Network and Sharing Center says I'm on a private network.
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    ASUS RT-AX86U Network Share Problem

    I have an Asus RT-AX86U running Merlin. I just got a new laptop and I can't connect it to my network share. It's working fine on the old laptop. Enable sharing is on, device name is set, I have a workgroup name set that I also set on the laptop, protocol is SMBv2, simple sharing yes, force as...
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    RT-AX88U maxing out a core and regularly showing 60+ MB/s upload

    Same issue with my RT-AC86U. Someone in another forum pointed me to this thread last week. I turned off AiCloud at that point and things were better. Turned it back on today and after a bit, I noticed the huge upload. Turned it off and rebooted and I'm good again. I guess I'll wait to turn...
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