What performance hit - if any - will it have on the other clients connected to the main router if; lets say - 2 wireless Aimesh routers with 8 clients are connected to the main router; versus if those clients were connected directly to the main router?
The reason I'm asking is that I have an AC86 main router with one AC66B1 wired Aimesh node, and I’m wondering if I need to wire two extra Aimesh routers or if connecting them wirelessly is sufficient (wiring them is going to take quite a bit of work and a POW setup). The fiber internet connection that is going to be shared is 150mbit (possibly more in the future), so the uplink speed shouldn't be a limiting factor.
I understand that the Aimesh nodes and the clients that connect to it will have their bandwith cut in half unless they are 3x3 band routers - because the bandwith will be split between receive and (re)send.
But from the main-router perspective, wouldn’t the Aimesh nodes have about the same performance hit as another client connecting to the main router? (of course, the more clients that are connected to it, the higher the load, but it doesn’t require a splitting of the bands between receive and (re)send) from the main router perspective, just the Aimesh node itself?).
The reason I'm asking is that I have an AC86 main router with one AC66B1 wired Aimesh node, and I’m wondering if I need to wire two extra Aimesh routers or if connecting them wirelessly is sufficient (wiring them is going to take quite a bit of work and a POW setup). The fiber internet connection that is going to be shared is 150mbit (possibly more in the future), so the uplink speed shouldn't be a limiting factor.
I understand that the Aimesh nodes and the clients that connect to it will have their bandwith cut in half unless they are 3x3 band routers - because the bandwith will be split between receive and (re)send.
But from the main-router perspective, wouldn’t the Aimesh nodes have about the same performance hit as another client connecting to the main router? (of course, the more clients that are connected to it, the higher the load, but it doesn’t require a splitting of the bands between receive and (re)send) from the main router perspective, just the Aimesh node itself?).