I am seeing a very interesting phenomenon at home. I have 2 T-Mobile Asus AC 1900 routers that I flashed to ASUS RT-68U (following the guides online). I used an image from ASUS released earlier in the year. They suffered from some instability with the wireless dropping (on my phone but not on my PC; however, PC lost connection to the internet) but I was not able to pin point whether it was the AT&T fiber gateway or the ASUS RT-68u(s). I set them both up in an AiMesh configuration and they were adequate, though I did find out that setting one of them up as a media bridge worked even better. Except I needed more Cat5e cables going across the room.
Anyway, recently I flashed them to the latest firmware from ASUS. I was able to flash them successfully to 3.0.0.4.384_45149 . The first thing I did after the re-flash and subsequent reboot, was to connect my residential gateway(RG) to my router (MR), reconfigure the login/SSID/password and power it up. I configured the RG to passthrough the IP (bridge mode) to the router. And I voila, I had an internet connection. This configuration worked just fine. And then I decided to enable my secondary router (SR) as an AiMesh node to put upstairs at the other far end of the house. I would be content using it as a media bridge too. However, as soon as I powered up the second 68U, I found that I could no longer stay connected to my MR. This actually became worse the closer the two AC68U were located. So I am not able to pair the two as part of the AiMesh. In fact, I have to keep it switched off to prevent my MR from dropping my wireless connections.
Has this been observed before? Any possible theories on what might be going on?
Anyway, recently I flashed them to the latest firmware from ASUS. I was able to flash them successfully to 3.0.0.4.384_45149 . The first thing I did after the re-flash and subsequent reboot, was to connect my residential gateway(RG) to my router (MR), reconfigure the login/SSID/password and power it up. I configured the RG to passthrough the IP (bridge mode) to the router. And I voila, I had an internet connection. This configuration worked just fine. And then I decided to enable my secondary router (SR) as an AiMesh node to put upstairs at the other far end of the house. I would be content using it as a media bridge too. However, as soon as I powered up the second 68U, I found that I could no longer stay connected to my MR. This actually became worse the closer the two AC68U were located. So I am not able to pair the two as part of the AiMesh. In fact, I have to keep it switched off to prevent my MR from dropping my wireless connections.
Has this been observed before? Any possible theories on what might be going on?
