AX88U WiFi 6 Capabilities: in AiMesh

[jtmpush18]

Question:
For a specific reason, I am planning to have the Asus AC88U and the primary router and a Asus AX88U as the AiMesh node.
Will there be any WiFi6 capabilities on the AX88U?

 

[Tech9]

In wireless AiMesh your AX88U node will accept AX clients, but the speed will be greatly affected by the AC wireless backhaul using the same radio. In wired AiMesh you’ll have full speed to AX clients from AX88U node. At lest this is what happens with AC86U main and AX86U node - similar situation I have tested at one point.

 

[jtmpush18]

Please excuse my poor wording of the question:
If the Asus AX88U is the satellite node, with the Asus AC88U as the primary node, will there be wifi6? or will the AX88U only operate in wifi5 mode?

 

[Tech9]

As I said AX client was connecting to the AX node with expected 1200Mbps link speed. AiMesh is quirky though and you have to try what happens on your routers, both different model than mine. Yours run different firmware than available to me for testing AC86U and AX86U. I don't know the reason why you want to keep the older and much slower router as main and the newer much faster as node. This is not recommended by Asus as well.