Question about my new AX-GT6000 and Aimesh

[kolyan24k]

So I recently bought AX-GT6000 to replace my old working horse AC-86U. Nothing was wrong with 86U, but I figured since it has no more updates might as well replace it, plus now I am running WIFI6 and WPA3 on some clients. Both GT6000 and my old 86U were able to cover the entire 2400 sqft house, garage, and my outdoor cameras too. Clients that were too far away had poor signal but still worked fine. The question is this: does it make sense for me to run 86U in Aimesh node to improve that signal from poor to good/excellent and off-load some clients to that node or don't even bother since everything works fine and the fact that old 86U has no security updates might compromise the network? Also obviously clients that get connected to 86U dont get WIFI6 or WPA3

 

[degrub]

Not really. Adding the 86U will likely cause a lot of signal area overlap since it is already well covered and reducing the Tx power on the asus models doesn't work well.

Just keep it as a backup.

 

[OzarkEdge]

So I recently bought AX-GT6000 to replace my old working horse AC-86U. Nothing was wrong with 86U, but I figured since it has no more updates might as well replace it, plus now I am running WIFI6 and WPA3 on some clients. Both GT6000 and my old 86U were able to cover the entire 2400 sqft house, garage, and my outdoor cameras too. Clients that were too far away had poor signal but still worked fine. The question is this: does it make sense for me to run 86U in Aimesh node to improve that signal from poor to good/excellent and off-load some clients to that node or don't even bother since everything works fine and the fact that old 86U has no security updates might compromise the network? Also obviously clients that get connected to 86U dont get WIFI6 or WPA3

Just keep it as backup.

Another option if you want to wire a client by way of a stronger wireless connection... is to use the RT-AC86U in wireless Media Bridge Mode... all AC86U WiFi is used for the wireless backhaul connection and only wired clients are connected to it:

GT-AX6000 <wireless> RT-AC86U in Bridge Mode <wire> wired clients only

Typically used to improve wireless throughput to a streaming media center client that suffers from its own poor wireless connection or can only be wired.

OE