I have a big house with a large rural property. My internet is a Bell wireless 50/10 system. For my network I am using have an Asus AIMesh system with the following components:
the main router (RT-AC86U) [3.0.0.4.386_51915-g43629d2]; and 6 nodes, as follows:
RT-AC86U (WiFi) [3.0.0.4.386_51915-g43629d2]
RT-AC68U (wired) [3.0.0.4.386_51665-g8072e52]
4 ZenWiFi XD5’s (3 are wired and 1 is WiFi) [3.0.0.4.388_23347-g4b5bfc3]
Two, of the ZenWiFi XD5’s, are in separate buildings.
One of those is hard wired to the main house to either the main router directly or a switch next to the router.
The other router which is in a building further from the house is connected using 2 Ubiquiti radios (NanoStation Loco M5’s). The Ubiquiti radio in that building is connected to a non-managed switch, which has the XD5 and two security cameras connected. The mesh system sees this XD5 as a wired connection.
I also have 7 security cameras (currently all HikVision) and an NVR. 5 of the cameras are connected to the NVR in the main house and the other 2 are connected as indicated above.
I also have a Generac Generator (20Kw) on the property which is about 300’ feet from the main house. Recently I installed, as an add on to the generator, a WiFi/Ethernet module (#7170) which is a router with WiFi and Ethernet capabilities. Surprisingly, given the distance from the main house, I was able to connect to the generator using WiFi. However, the signal is fairly weak and I am concerned about the reliability of that signal, particularly in the winter when the snow piles up.
So, given that concern, I decided to try to connect the generator to my network using Ethernet instead of WiFi. To do this, I installed 2 more Ubiquiti radios (NanoStation AC devices) so that I could beam the network signal from the house to a pole close to the generator. Then I connected an ethernet cable from the data port on the NanoStation AC device to the generator module.
This is where problems started to happen. Whenever that final link is active (ethernet connection to the generator module), it causes problems in my mesh system! The WiFi signals start to weaken and using the mobile Asus app I can no longer see any of the network AIMesh clients! It just shows the AiMesh nodes and keeps spinning as though it is trying to refresh. In addition, the WiFi signal on my iPhone is very weak. As soon as I disconnect the generator module and reboot the main router everything starts working properly again!
So, it appears that introducing a non-Asus router (the generator module) into the network seems to bring the system down. Does this make sense? Has anyone else encountered this type of issue?
Recently, I also had a similar issue when I was trying to setup the new Ubiquiti radios because I accidently purchased the wrong PoE switch and ended up with an tp-link 8-port Gigabit Easy Smart With with 4 PoE ports (TL-SG108PE) which seems to have some management features. I have no idea as to what this switch was doing but shortly after I connected the switch to my network, I lost all access to the network and it required a complete reboot of the router. After this happened several times, I pulled the switch off the network and bought a non-managed switch which has been working without issue. Given that this issue took a bit of time to manifest itself, after I connected it, I am wondering if the switch was doing some type of monitoring that was overloading my network. Any thoughts on why this was happening?
the main router (RT-AC86U) [3.0.0.4.386_51915-g43629d2]; and 6 nodes, as follows:
RT-AC86U (WiFi) [3.0.0.4.386_51915-g43629d2]
RT-AC68U (wired) [3.0.0.4.386_51665-g8072e52]
4 ZenWiFi XD5’s (3 are wired and 1 is WiFi) [3.0.0.4.388_23347-g4b5bfc3]
Two, of the ZenWiFi XD5’s, are in separate buildings.
One of those is hard wired to the main house to either the main router directly or a switch next to the router.
The other router which is in a building further from the house is connected using 2 Ubiquiti radios (NanoStation Loco M5’s). The Ubiquiti radio in that building is connected to a non-managed switch, which has the XD5 and two security cameras connected. The mesh system sees this XD5 as a wired connection.
I also have 7 security cameras (currently all HikVision) and an NVR. 5 of the cameras are connected to the NVR in the main house and the other 2 are connected as indicated above.
I also have a Generac Generator (20Kw) on the property which is about 300’ feet from the main house. Recently I installed, as an add on to the generator, a WiFi/Ethernet module (#7170) which is a router with WiFi and Ethernet capabilities. Surprisingly, given the distance from the main house, I was able to connect to the generator using WiFi. However, the signal is fairly weak and I am concerned about the reliability of that signal, particularly in the winter when the snow piles up.
So, given that concern, I decided to try to connect the generator to my network using Ethernet instead of WiFi. To do this, I installed 2 more Ubiquiti radios (NanoStation AC devices) so that I could beam the network signal from the house to a pole close to the generator. Then I connected an ethernet cable from the data port on the NanoStation AC device to the generator module.
This is where problems started to happen. Whenever that final link is active (ethernet connection to the generator module), it causes problems in my mesh system! The WiFi signals start to weaken and using the mobile Asus app I can no longer see any of the network AIMesh clients! It just shows the AiMesh nodes and keeps spinning as though it is trying to refresh. In addition, the WiFi signal on my iPhone is very weak. As soon as I disconnect the generator module and reboot the main router everything starts working properly again!
So, it appears that introducing a non-Asus router (the generator module) into the network seems to bring the system down. Does this make sense? Has anyone else encountered this type of issue?
Recently, I also had a similar issue when I was trying to setup the new Ubiquiti radios because I accidently purchased the wrong PoE switch and ended up with an tp-link 8-port Gigabit Easy Smart With with 4 PoE ports (TL-SG108PE) which seems to have some management features. I have no idea as to what this switch was doing but shortly after I connected the switch to my network, I lost all access to the network and it required a complete reboot of the router. After this happened several times, I pulled the switch off the network and bought a non-managed switch which has been working without issue. Given that this issue took a bit of time to manifest itself, after I connected it, I am wondering if the switch was doing some type of monitoring that was overloading my network. Any thoughts on why this was happening?