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Unfortunately I do not have cable, otherwise would have tried

Oh, I have tried power route before. Worked beautifully before FTTP arrived. It can't really do over 100mbps. Re: foil - I do remember how it was before. We have done renovation on one floor, it became slower, but I have not attributed it immediately to the underlay, then later we have done...

I would have done that long time ago, but I'm on a tight budget and have an OCD about visible cables, so unless we are redecorating anyway nothing much I can do... I will check though if I can pull a few laminate boards up easily to remove a section of the underlay under/above the routers...

The distance is not an issue, but unfortunately I have two sets of foil-based underlay in between the floors that reduce signal power to -80db on 6Ghz and -73db on 5Ghz. My gigabit internet is hard to propagate through that...

I'm not saying its right or suggest others doing it, but since I'm not in an urban area. at least I'm not affecting others. Anyway, is my assumption that backhaul on 6Ghz will never be as good as on 5Ghz and I should stick to that until I can?

Just to help someone in the future - if you set up nodes in a single room and do the testign right away, you might get this upload speed issue, but as soon as you separate them properly into the target places then it should go away. I assume its do with devices getting confused to which node to...

So you are saying its not a fair comparison and I should get US version of BT8 instead, because the difference could be down to power level restrictions?

I have not done anything specific, just used stock Asus firmware on US-purchased units. I previously had EU version of XT8 and it was not holding to 160mhz bandwidth, so I got US versiopn to have access to UNII-4 frequencies (only for backhaul).

One of my XT8s has just died after many years in rock solid configuration without issues (2 nodes, AP mode, wireless backhaul, US version with UNII-4 enabled) and I'm considering what to do. Option 1 is to find another US version of XT8 (I'm in europe) and continue with the current set up (with...

That's not it. I had the same RSSI (or even slightly worse) at some point and it never switched to 2.4 band. I think this is either broken hardware or environment specific that would be difficult for Asus to reproduce and fix. I have never in my environment experienced a drop to 2.4 (on...

Yes, thats what I'm using. Even power supply works fine with 220v (with a socket adapter). Never been happier with an Asus product...

Its approved as per this, but the maximum allowed power transmission level is so low it won't be used by consumer routers. Better solution is to just order US version from Amazon/ebay and be happy...

I can't easily test this, but I'm 99% certain it will be OK. Even when i do manual testing of calls with friends (who are on good connection as well) it's not reproducible, but long calls (over far longer geo distance) my kid does for tutoring are affected (could be 30-40 min in the problems...

Just to follow up. I ended up re-arranging node placement to archive slightly better connectivity: backhaul is now connected at ~800mbps with real life internet speed of ~450mbps both ways). To my dismay Zoom calls are still choppy from time to time. I can't believe that at those speeds and...

I have a couple of XT8s in AP mode connected with wireless backhaul. I spent quite a bit of effort before on optimizing wireless connection for speed/bandwidth and is able to have ~350Mbps internet speed through the child node (out of Gigabit on the main node) which I'm happy with, however it...