I have aimesh setup with 1 router and 1 node. Used to have a total of 3 nodes but I think it was causing more problems with connectivity.
Running the latest merlin firmware.
I'm hardwired most of the time and sitting very closed to router so I don't see any issues. However guest / family complains that internet is unstable and it drops out every now and again. I do occasionally see video streaming buffer taking longer or dropping quality. However everything else seems okay for me.
Might be my imagination but it does feel like the more wifi devices I add to the network, the more it suffer. Am I saturating the wifi bandwidth?
Been using asus merlin for years and I really don't want to go back to pfsense. Is it possible that the router is just unable to cope with these many wifi clients? Since cpu is low, I don't know if moving to faster hardware will make any difference?
Running the latest merlin firmware.
- Reboot once a week
- ~15 wifi camera devices
- ~20 pcs/phones/laptops
- ~10 IOT
- Around 20 wifi clients connected to 1 router and another 10 to the aimesh node
- CPU low utilization on the main router
- Just 1 guest network isolation on 2.4G and 5G + 2.4G enabled.
- 1 router on 2nd floor and mesh node on 1st floor. Under 2000sqft
- WAN is not saturated
- 2.4G and 5G does not overlap with the neighbors
I'm hardwired most of the time and sitting very closed to router so I don't see any issues. However guest / family complains that internet is unstable and it drops out every now and again. I do occasionally see video streaming buffer taking longer or dropping quality. However everything else seems okay for me.
Might be my imagination but it does feel like the more wifi devices I add to the network, the more it suffer. Am I saturating the wifi bandwidth?
Been using asus merlin for years and I really don't want to go back to pfsense. Is it possible that the router is just unable to cope with these many wifi clients? Since cpu is low, I don't know if moving to faster hardware will make any difference?