I'm using an RT-AC68U as an AIMesh node, it works well. I recently picked a second RT-AC68U almost for free. And I had this crazy thought -- could I link the two of them with ethernet and use them essentially as one dual-band 5 GHz AIMesh node? That way I will have a dedicated backhaul band.
I could connect one to the main router via wireless, and then connect the second one to the first one with ethernet and then the system would recognize all 3, and the 3rd would have ethernet backhaul and not suffer from additional loss. But then the second one's AP will still be active (and the two routers will be basically next to each other), so clients could still connect to it and incur the speed loss associated with repeating signal on the same band.
So... what I want is to basically use one router as a media bridge for the second one, and have only the second one's 5 GHz radio available to clients, the first one's only serving as a backhaul and not visible to clients. Can I do that somehow within AIMesh?
I could connect one to the main router via wireless, and then connect the second one to the first one with ethernet and then the system would recognize all 3, and the 3rd would have ethernet backhaul and not suffer from additional loss. But then the second one's AP will still be active (and the two routers will be basically next to each other), so clients could still connect to it and incur the speed loss associated with repeating signal on the same band.
So... what I want is to basically use one router as a media bridge for the second one, and have only the second one's 5 GHz radio available to clients, the first one's only serving as a backhaul and not visible to clients. Can I do that somehow within AIMesh?