don_chuwish
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These were bought cheap as T-Mobile TM-AC1900 and then flashed to current ASUS FW (now 3.0.0.4.385_20490-g57b06ea). They are set up as Primary and Access Point.
The Primary is in the 1st floor TV room at the far SE side of the house and serves several wired TV room devices as well as providing WiFi. The Access Point is upstairs in my office, about 30 lateral feet and a few walls away to the NW - connected by Cat5e. It also serves several wired devices (work PC, printers, NAS) and WiFi coverage for upstairs bedrooms and that end of the house.
The Primary has been getting flaky lately, requiring reboots too often.
When setting these up I played with AiMesh but settled on AP mode instead. Both nodes are serving 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz. Sometimes I feel like mobile devices don't always switch nodes when they should.
After reading the reviews on SNB I'm considering two options (but willing to consider others!)
a. Get a new RT-AC86U as Primary and either keep the Office 68P as AP or play with AiMesh again (wired backhaul)
b. Get a NETGEAR R7800 as Primary and see if it covers the whole house, use the 68U as AP if not
I'm torn between staying in the ASUS family for multi-node compatibility/convenience, or jumping over to the NETGEAR for better performance, range, and hopefully single node simplicity.
If I went with the NETGEAR and needed to use the office 68P as an AP would they work well together?
If I stick with ASUS, should AiMesh mode improve roaming handoffs for mobile devices?
Other ideas in the <$200 range?
Thanks!
The Primary is in the 1st floor TV room at the far SE side of the house and serves several wired TV room devices as well as providing WiFi. The Access Point is upstairs in my office, about 30 lateral feet and a few walls away to the NW - connected by Cat5e. It also serves several wired devices (work PC, printers, NAS) and WiFi coverage for upstairs bedrooms and that end of the house.
The Primary has been getting flaky lately, requiring reboots too often.
When setting these up I played with AiMesh but settled on AP mode instead. Both nodes are serving 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz. Sometimes I feel like mobile devices don't always switch nodes when they should.
After reading the reviews on SNB I'm considering two options (but willing to consider others!)
a. Get a new RT-AC86U as Primary and either keep the Office 68P as AP or play with AiMesh again (wired backhaul)
b. Get a NETGEAR R7800 as Primary and see if it covers the whole house, use the 68U as AP if not
I'm torn between staying in the ASUS family for multi-node compatibility/convenience, or jumping over to the NETGEAR for better performance, range, and hopefully single node simplicity.
If I went with the NETGEAR and needed to use the office 68P as an AP would they work well together?
If I stick with ASUS, should AiMesh mode improve roaming handoffs for mobile devices?
Other ideas in the <$200 range?
Thanks!