Hello Everyone,
This is my first post so please let me know if there are any problems.
I have an ASUS based Wi-Fi mesh network. The routers in the mesh are an RT-AX88U, RT-AX58U, and a RT-AX55. These are all running the latest ASUS production firmware. The coverage in and around my home is working well. My issue is that I have a large number of Wi-Fi based IoT home automation devices spread around the house that are sometimes dropping off the network. This past weekend I added a few more IoT devices and the connection failure rates have become very problematic as many devices now keep falling off the network. They simply can't connect or they are bumped off the network when other devices renew their connections. Most of these devices are using the 2.4GHz band and are connecting to different nodes in the mesh.
I tried creating a Guest Network for a group of the IoT devices but this appears to have had no effect on the issue. It seems to me that I am hitting some sort of limits that I did not expect. The configuration allows 128 devices to be created in the DNS so I assumed that I could simultaneously connect at least that many devices. I have tried searching about this issue and found no satisfactory answers.
Regards,
Ian.
This is my first post so please let me know if there are any problems.
I have an ASUS based Wi-Fi mesh network. The routers in the mesh are an RT-AX88U, RT-AX58U, and a RT-AX55. These are all running the latest ASUS production firmware. The coverage in and around my home is working well. My issue is that I have a large number of Wi-Fi based IoT home automation devices spread around the house that are sometimes dropping off the network. This past weekend I added a few more IoT devices and the connection failure rates have become very problematic as many devices now keep falling off the network. They simply can't connect or they are bumped off the network when other devices renew their connections. Most of these devices are using the 2.4GHz band and are connecting to different nodes in the mesh.
I tried creating a Guest Network for a group of the IoT devices but this appears to have had no effect on the issue. It seems to me that I am hitting some sort of limits that I did not expect. The configuration allows 128 devices to be created in the DNS so I assumed that I could simultaneously connect at least that many devices. I have tried searching about this issue and found no satisfactory answers.
- Can anyone please tell me if there is a defined limit to the number of Wi-Fi devices that can connect to any one router?
- Is there a connection limit across the whole mesh?
- Does using a mesh allow for more devices to connect than any single router?
- Does Merlin have the same limits?
- Is there a way to increase the number of simultaneous connections to a node/the mesh?
Regards,
Ian.
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