ASUS ExpertWiFi EBG15

[jzchen]

This router is inexpensive and runs the new 3006 UI, but the hardware inside is based on ~2016 BCM4906. It has ARMv8 cores CPU with AES and 512MB RAM, performance equivalent to RT-AC86U from 2017. Your routers used as APs perhaps have better hardware.

If I run the GT-BE98 Pro as router the GT-AXE16000 5 GHz-2 is dead. I assume 6 GHz-2 would be dead if I tried the opposite. It's been a long time since I've had one AiMesh in the house and I really wanted it back. There's nothing I can set on the main SSID as noted somewhere except WPA security, so I set it as WPA3 since I know 6 GHz/6 GHz-1 and 6 GHz-2 only run on WPA3 or Open... Which leaves out a lowly iPad Air 2 to connect to other WiFi in the household.

Hey, I got the beautiful "new" UI that the GT-BE19000Ai has, for pennies on the dollar...

 

[Tech9]

You have one AiMesh, but non-ExpertWiFi devices connected to this router still have limitations. I saw somewhere a screenshot posted from EBG15 to EBA63 with channel change option. Not sure about power change option... if not there perhaps coming. ASUS is slowly adding what is missing to call this line of products SMB, but it may never come to your home routers. If ASUS marketing at one point decides to separate ExpertWiFi line of products completely or the firmware branch moves in different direction breaking the compatibility with home routers firmware - you may lose what you have now. There is no word about compatibility to begin with.

 

[jzchen]

I don't think wireless traffic monitoring will ever work

Wonder how you knew, well at least not so far:

 

[Tech9]

This thing is perhaps currently working with EBA63 AP only.

 

[jzchen]

Try this in ssh:

cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp


http://(router_LAN_IP)/ajax_coretmp.asp

http://expertwifi.net/ajax_coretmp.asp

ssh cat function pulls a 5 digit number with no decimal 78xxx. Web page works 77.779 with or without LEDs on. (I was hoping turning off the LEDs would help but I guess makes sense that the LEDs do not affect the CPU temp...

 

[aaronwt]

I setup one of the ExpertWiFi EGB15 routers last night. I wanted to separate out my cameras from my main network, that uses an RT-BE96U as the router. I have seventeen cameras in use with it, two wireless bridges, four PoE switches, one AP, and three PCs on its network. So far, it's been working fine.

Setup was easy, like other Asus routers, through a wired connection to a PC. It's overkill for what I need, but I did not feel like repurposing one of my old Asus routers (AX89X or ET12). I wanted something that did not have any wireless capability and had low power usage. And this seemed to fit the bill.

I have it on a DMZ, on my RT-BE96U router. And then I run the AI protection stuff, traffic analyzer, etc.

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[jzchen]

I have been using the LACP function to squeeze all I can get out of the EBG15. You may want to skip the next paragraph and go to the third to avoid the nitty gritty...

First managed switch did not support LLDP and was getting a whole bunch of errors in the System Log as such. Upgraded to a Binardat 10G06-0402GSM which does, and for a while thought I was stuck because it has a default VLAN that can not be deleted. As such it immediately split my home network in a way that only ethernet clients connected to the Binardat switch (and WiFi) could access all my local IPs/routers. I put the prior YuLinca back in service since it worked better, then researched that even Cisco routers have similar default VLAN. Also noticed on the YuLinca settings that there appeared to be a default VLAN, but it was either disabled or somehow bypassed. My network worked as normal. (Did I mention the Binardat is LOUD with it's constantly running at high speed fan)? I put the Binardat back, tried to mimic the VLAN settings as best as possible, and wallah, I graduated the crash course in VLANs...

No more System Log errors after upgrading the managed switch to one which supports LLDP, and proper setup.

Still not able to get a proper SDN network with VLAN through my TP-Link switches. My phone fails to connect to the SDN using a different subnet from main/aka VLAN....

 

[jzchen]

Just placed an order for an ExpertWiFi EBM68. Likely replace a TP-Link Archer AX55 Pro. Gotta figure out if it's a bug, switches, or separation of non-ExpertWiFi and ExpertWiFi...