Hi. I have an AC66R in Repeater mode acting as an ethernet bridge (I don't use the repeated wifi), but it consistently chooses a sub-optimal upstream router, and I'd like to force it to a particular one. The rest of my network is 3 routers in an aimesh setup, but the 66 does not support aimesh. A simplified diagram of the problem is below (one router omitted for simplicity):
A is the 66R in question. Because A is so close to B, it usually chooses B to connect to. (It occasionally also chooses 2.4gHz, but that probably doesn't matter for this post.) However, B is actually farther from C (and the internet), so performance is much worse than if A connects directly to C. I've done some speed testing to confirm this. My question: is there any way to force A to connect to C (I'd guess by specifying C's MAC address)?
It's currently running John's fork of Merlin, but I have no compelling reason to do that and I'm happy to switch to stock or regular Merlin if that would help. [Edit: I do have shell access on all of the routers, so happy to try things that need to be done by command line/variables/etc.] [Edit 2: I've been meaning to try Media Bridge mode, as it's more what I want, but I suspect it's going to run into the same problem.]
Thanks for any assistance!
-Jef
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A-------------C--Internet
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/ /
B-------------/
A is the 66R in question. Because A is so close to B, it usually chooses B to connect to. (It occasionally also chooses 2.4gHz, but that probably doesn't matter for this post.) However, B is actually farther from C (and the internet), so performance is much worse than if A connects directly to C. I've done some speed testing to confirm this. My question: is there any way to force A to connect to C (I'd guess by specifying C's MAC address)?
It's currently running John's fork of Merlin, but I have no compelling reason to do that and I'm happy to switch to stock or regular Merlin if that would help. [Edit: I do have shell access on all of the routers, so happy to try things that need to be done by command line/variables/etc.] [Edit 2: I've been meaning to try Media Bridge mode, as it's more what I want, but I suspect it's going to run into the same problem.]
Thanks for any assistance!
-Jef
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