MLO performance and Limitations

[baller54]

Thanks for the info. Let's hope that Asus either moves forward with allowing the band selection on their upcoming routers like the BQ16 and maybe updates older routers that didn't have that option at the start.

I'm also really hoping for this!

 

[jzchen]

Thanks for the info. Let's hope that Asus either moves forward with allowing the band selection on their upcoming routers like the BQ16 and maybe updates older routers that didn't have that option at the start.

Maybe I wasn't clear, you can choose a collection of 3 channels:

5 GHz, 6 GHz-1, and 6 GHz-2
2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz

Isn't the first option what you wanted? Or just two?

 

[NismoZ]

Maybe I wasn't clear, you can choose a collection of 3 channels:

5 GHz, 6 GHz-1, and 6 GHz-2
2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz

Isn't the first option what you wanted? Or just two?

Yes, that top option of 1x5Ghz and 2x6Ghz bands seems like it leaves out the 2.4Ghz.

 

[rickysuperdog]

It's crap at the moment (GT-BE98).

From my testing, I have both MLO compatible devices and legacy devices droppoing to use 2.4GHz only, and there's no latency improvement (at a non-congested location) with very little performance difference.

One of the limitations is that you can't separate each band after enabling MLO (although if you were using smart connect before, this makes no difference to you). I still don't know why they don't leave all bands separated for those who need it and create a new separate SSID for MLO.


Hopefully ASUS will release another firmware update for the BE98 next week.

I bought and setup the BE92u last week. Strange is that if anyone joined the 6Ghz channel including the MLO (a separate channel). Smart Connect will insist on and cannot be switch off.

 

[ScriptK1d]

So far in my home, I do find improvements using MLO in the 2 mesh nodes backhaul only. My house is fairly large and running cable from the basement on one side of the house into the middle floor office and other rooms will be a pain in the butt. This is why I chose the BE30000 (BQ16), in hopes for the strongest wireless backhaul and strongest signal for coverage. My previous ET12's I ran the beta to get VLANs for work and my research (maliciousness). For awhile our connection reliability remained quite high, but then gradually become worse over weeks until almost every 5-30 minutes we would get disconnections. It drove me and especially the wife MAD. Bit the bullet, got this setup. It started with disconnections and gradually adjusted settings, finally landing on something that appears to be quite reliable! (Except maybe the random stupid Apple TV wifi getting deauthed and then repeatedly bouncing all connection reauth's immediately forcing router reset. Anyhow, MLO as backhaul in default (5ghz-6ghz) bands has been working well! Wifes laptop and iPhone haven't been getting dropped randomly throughout the day, and latency/speed appear solid. Now to force one of my work machines on a vlan via physical port since BQ16 doesn't get the actual vlan settings outside the guest network setup.

 

[Stepalex]

What speeds are you getting at the node?

 

[sfx2000]

Always fun to consider all the possible combo's for MLO...

Just think - one could do 2x 5GHz links on the same radio and channel - yes, that is one of the possible configs

Same obviously would apply to 2.4GHz...