Hello all, new to the forums (and AiMesh) here..
I recently upgraded my new home from a single AC86U to a multi-router AiMesh setup. The home is rather large with an open floor plan but the single 86 just wasn’t cutting it at all. The modem is in one far right corner of the house and by the time I reached the garage or the yard on the other side signal was non existent. I have never experimented with mesh networks so I thought I would give it a try.
Long story short I moved the 86U I was originally using into the garage, added another 86U in the basement, and three AC5300’s throughout the house. One 5300 as the main router at the modem, Second one right in the middle of the house in the kitchen, and the third on the second floor on the far side of the house nearest the garage. The 5300’s are spaced evenly, within asus distance spec, almost line of sight to each other, and overall the performance of the entire network is outstanding. I’m able to get over 500mb/s everywhere in the house and yard now, and over 250mb/s when connected to the 86U in the garage or basement. I was even able to see speeds over 200mb/s roughly 200ft away across the street at my mailbox and at the edges of my back yard.
The problem I have is with ONE node, one of the 5300’s that’s in the middle position in the house in the kitchen. For some reason, any device that’s connected to this node directly at any given time sees a very glitchy, almost non existent WiFi connection. “Signal” shows full strength to the backhaul (main router) and on the local devices themselves but almost nothing loads at all. When running a speed test on a device connected to that particular node the “ping” number on the Speedtest app will jump around all over the place for over 5 seconds showing random numbers large and small and then when the speed test finally starts it’s usually around 1-2mb/s, or less. I’ve never seen that behavior before from the speedtest app. Not sure what it means. The strange thing is that I have the other 5300 on the second floor set to use this troubled kitchen 5300 as it’s back haul connection and the garage 86U set to use the second floor 5300 as it’s connection and the speeds when connecting to either one of those other nodes downstream of the kitchen 5300 is outstanding, so I know the full bandwidth is there at the kitchen node and it’s passing it through to the other routers just fine. Its just not being passed to devices that are chosen to be directly connected to that specific 5300 for some reason.
So far to troubleshoot I’ve deleted that node completely from the system, factory reset the router, and re-added the node to my mesh network twice. It’s still doing the same exact thing. When that one node was disconnected from the rest of the system all the other nodes still worked just as well as they did before, and when it was added again to the system and placed in the back haul line where it was originally all the other routers performance is still great.
The only thing I can come up with is that the kitchen 5300 is somehow defective at this point. It was ordered brand new with the other two 5300’s, which are all 1 serial number digit apart from each other, so I don’t think it was a returned item or anything. Before I just return it and buy another one to try does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone had trouble with one specific node like this?
Thanks in advance!
I recently upgraded my new home from a single AC86U to a multi-router AiMesh setup. The home is rather large with an open floor plan but the single 86 just wasn’t cutting it at all. The modem is in one far right corner of the house and by the time I reached the garage or the yard on the other side signal was non existent. I have never experimented with mesh networks so I thought I would give it a try.
Long story short I moved the 86U I was originally using into the garage, added another 86U in the basement, and three AC5300’s throughout the house. One 5300 as the main router at the modem, Second one right in the middle of the house in the kitchen, and the third on the second floor on the far side of the house nearest the garage. The 5300’s are spaced evenly, within asus distance spec, almost line of sight to each other, and overall the performance of the entire network is outstanding. I’m able to get over 500mb/s everywhere in the house and yard now, and over 250mb/s when connected to the 86U in the garage or basement. I was even able to see speeds over 200mb/s roughly 200ft away across the street at my mailbox and at the edges of my back yard.
The problem I have is with ONE node, one of the 5300’s that’s in the middle position in the house in the kitchen. For some reason, any device that’s connected to this node directly at any given time sees a very glitchy, almost non existent WiFi connection. “Signal” shows full strength to the backhaul (main router) and on the local devices themselves but almost nothing loads at all. When running a speed test on a device connected to that particular node the “ping” number on the Speedtest app will jump around all over the place for over 5 seconds showing random numbers large and small and then when the speed test finally starts it’s usually around 1-2mb/s, or less. I’ve never seen that behavior before from the speedtest app. Not sure what it means. The strange thing is that I have the other 5300 on the second floor set to use this troubled kitchen 5300 as it’s back haul connection and the garage 86U set to use the second floor 5300 as it’s connection and the speeds when connecting to either one of those other nodes downstream of the kitchen 5300 is outstanding, so I know the full bandwidth is there at the kitchen node and it’s passing it through to the other routers just fine. Its just not being passed to devices that are chosen to be directly connected to that specific 5300 for some reason.
So far to troubleshoot I’ve deleted that node completely from the system, factory reset the router, and re-added the node to my mesh network twice. It’s still doing the same exact thing. When that one node was disconnected from the rest of the system all the other nodes still worked just as well as they did before, and when it was added again to the system and placed in the back haul line where it was originally all the other routers performance is still great.
The only thing I can come up with is that the kitchen 5300 is somehow defective at this point. It was ordered brand new with the other two 5300’s, which are all 1 serial number digit apart from each other, so I don’t think it was a returned item or anything. Before I just return it and buy another one to try does anyone have any suggestions or has anyone had trouble with one specific node like this?
Thanks in advance!