Originally I have 1 router and 1 access point connected together via ethernet. Both at center of the house and one on each floor. It kinda works but just annoying to manage when I have to update them.
I was thinking let's try out aimesh and buy another extra access point to increase the coverage to the deadspot.
Now I have 1 aimesh master and 2 nodes. One of the aimesh nodes just use wifi 5G as the backhaul whereas the other 2 is on ethernet.
Coverage is slightly better but overall the network performance has degraded. VOIP like zoom, google meet starts stuttering and dropping out. Spot where I used to get perfect signal with 850mbps now gets less than 100mbps. I would also need to randomly reboot the main aimesh router as it would just say WAN down. But I checked the modem and the lights are green so I know WAN is not down. 5G is now worse than my 2.4G in terms of throughput. My 5G clients would randomly stop working and start working again while the 2.4G devices are fine.
I noticed aimesh force all nodes to run on the same channel, could it be that the nodes are too close together?
I was thinking let's try out aimesh and buy another extra access point to increase the coverage to the deadspot.
Now I have 1 aimesh master and 2 nodes. One of the aimesh nodes just use wifi 5G as the backhaul whereas the other 2 is on ethernet.
Coverage is slightly better but overall the network performance has degraded. VOIP like zoom, google meet starts stuttering and dropping out. Spot where I used to get perfect signal with 850mbps now gets less than 100mbps. I would also need to randomly reboot the main aimesh router as it would just say WAN down. But I checked the modem and the lights are green so I know WAN is not down. 5G is now worse than my 2.4G in terms of throughput. My 5G clients would randomly stop working and start working again while the 2.4G devices are fine.
I noticed aimesh force all nodes to run on the same channel, could it be that the nodes are too close together?