Hi everyone,
I've had a Asus RT-AC86U for 2 years now, but recently I moved to a bigger and more complex house. The house I'm is a 3 story brick house, where I usually work from the top floor and the router is on the 1st floor (with no option to change it). On top of that I have a lot of connected devices (25 at the moment) which is not helping the situation, as I sometimes see WIFI drops on my pc.
Even though I receive a weak signal on the top floor, I opted for an AiMesh solution and bought an AX55. I've been reading some discussion on the forum about which router to keep as the main and I am not sure which one should I choose. I also don't have the option to keep them wired together, I would be using them as a wireless AiMesh node.
In one hand I have the newer AX55 with WIFI6 and in the other I have the strong AC86U with more CPU and RAM. With all this in mind, based on your experience, which one would recommend to be the base router and which one to be the AiMesh wireless node?
Both are running the latest ASUSWRT, as I am a basic home user I haven't installed merlin on them (maybe I should who knows! but that's for another thread).
Thanks guys!
I've had a Asus RT-AC86U for 2 years now, but recently I moved to a bigger and more complex house. The house I'm is a 3 story brick house, where I usually work from the top floor and the router is on the 1st floor (with no option to change it). On top of that I have a lot of connected devices (25 at the moment) which is not helping the situation, as I sometimes see WIFI drops on my pc.
Even though I receive a weak signal on the top floor, I opted for an AiMesh solution and bought an AX55. I've been reading some discussion on the forum about which router to keep as the main and I am not sure which one should I choose. I also don't have the option to keep them wired together, I would be using them as a wireless AiMesh node.
In one hand I have the newer AX55 with WIFI6 and in the other I have the strong AC86U with more CPU and RAM. With all this in mind, based on your experience, which one would recommend to be the base router and which one to be the AiMesh wireless node?
Both are running the latest ASUSWRT, as I am a basic home user I haven't installed merlin on them (maybe I should who knows! but that's for another thread).
Thanks guys!