Did you using any other routers to do as access points with the same wireless SSID with your main router? If yes, this issue is highly caused by the 2.4GHz interference. There has no other way to solve this issue unless you upgrade your desktop to 5GHz AC type wireless adapter. Besides that, 2.4GHz will bring a lot of interference problem becuase I was experienced this before. You should either switch to aimesh node if your routers are all the model of RT-AC68U and above models or switch off the 2.4GHz for your access point.

2.4GHz will bring a lot of interference problem especially when you want to make access points for more than 2 routers. Since I cannot guarantee the channel 1, 6 & 11 do not interference each other because my home got this issue on one of my router RT-AC55UHP. I was upgraded my living room to RT-AC86U, the old RT-AC55UHP was brought down to basement floor of my house.

The two RT-AC86U was switched to aimesh, so there got no issue on 2.4GHz. So now my problem is the one RT-AC55UHP only give me 10mbps download speed and 65mbps upload speed. My home unifi has 500mbps, usually I should get 400mbps download and 100mbps upload speed on wifi.

After I check through the router to find out what is the problem, I was noticed that, this issue is mainly caused by the 2.4GHz channel interference. Eventhough I was make sure that the aimesh and my access point has different channels. The aimesh has channel 11, and my AP has channel 1. The problem is still there, my wifi speed on that AP is really slow, only 10mbps.

So later I was found out the reason then immediately disable the 2.4GHz. My RT-AC55UHP was now left wireless 5GHz and I can get 490mbps on wifi speedtest. However, just to make sure don't go too far away from the router because 5GHz wifi range is short. Anyway, RT-AC55UHP is a high power long range 9dbi wireless router. When I take my phone then go into the toilet of my next room, I still able to load video in 1080p even my wireless signal was dropped down to half.

This post has been edited by junclj: Dec 23 2019, 02:12 PM

I'm having nightmare with aimesh

AC86U +
RP AC55 in node mode

It will only work for few minutes and then the nodes goes offline. Crazy...repeat reset and setup multiple times....same shit. Try putting it at diff places, near far from router same.

And worse off, when the node is turn on(power on) and offline, it actually distrub my connection to the main router. The whole network go hairwire. When I turn it off.....all is good again. My god..is ai mesh even working?????

This post has been edited by areankim: Dec 25 2019, 07:23 AM

Force RT-AC86U to run on channel 36 for 5Ghz.

Remove the RP-AC55 and add it again.

Hi AC86U on latest firmware the channel is only 149,153,158,161,165
got this unit from taobao, thats wht channel 36 is hidden?

Read about this channel 36, but unable to find that setting

This post has been edited by areankim: Dec 25 2019, 12:58 PM


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Yes, PRC models operate on limited bands.

Try changing region setting under the professional tab if available.

oh crap... the region setting is not available in the professional tab
Meaning to say aimesh has to be same region?
Bough AC55 Locally... And Ac86 from china

Anyone has same issue? Or I should get all china? Hahhaa..damn.


All my pic seems to be horizontal, it's potrait in my phone. Sorry

This post has been edited by areankim: Dec 25 2019, 02:54 PM


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RP-AC55 doesn’t support higher channel ( 149 and above ) leading to this issues.

All Malaysia ASUS routers should support those lower 5Ghz channels.

phew.. manage to found a trick for it to work!!

somehow upgrading China Router from the automatic GUI will cause us to lose some of the functions.

So the trick is to manually download the firmware from china website, the release and md5 is diff, gave it a try...viola... region is back!!!!

Flash and then factory reset.



P/S : how to force mesh node to run on 2.4 instead of 5ghz??

This post has been edited by areankim: Dec 25 2019, 04:11 PM


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AiMesh will auto decide based on the best signal.

But, for the case of RP-AC55, you need to fix the 5Ghz channel of your parent router to 36. Remove AiMesh node from GUI, reset the RP-AC55 with reset button just to be sure, and add it again for it to function properly.

Thanks for guiding me Tru. Now it's all working nicely.

Rebooting AiMesh Node


AUSUmy

Hi is there a way to reboot an AiMesh node using the webGUI or AsusRouter app?
Or is the only way is to power off and power on the AiMesh node?

I plan to put a AiMesh node in the ceiling so if I can reboot the node remotely would be great.

How to delete list of devices connected to router? Some if them are no longer in service..AC86U

Asus Team, when will ASUS upgrade Let's Encrypt SSL cert manual verification scripts in RT-AC88U and other ASUS routers from ACME-v1 to ACME-v2 for our asuscomm.com domain since ACME-v1 server at Let's Encrypt has been deprecated?

See related topic over here: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certifi...router/103647/8

This post has been edited by eclectice: Dec 28 2019, 08:54 AM

i have ac58u , and can enter router GUI page through ethernet connection, but when i try through wifi, browser will show "unable to connect" .

is this normal, for asus router, that GUI page can only be assessed by ethernet?

It is not normal.

For an Asus router, the GUI page can be accessed via Wifi as well as ethernet.

i see, i suppose the setting "access from WAN" is not related to this wifi access?

This setting has nothing to do with the ability to access the GUI page via Wifi.

this is weird, do you know of any other setting that might affect this GUI page access?


update: i managed to login using 192.168.1.1 through wifi, router.asus.com doesn't work though, but now at least i can assess the GUI page through wifi


This post has been edited by Eterman: Dec 29 2019, 11:47 AM

cool.seabreeze

Use ASUS Router app. The app has improved massively lately.



Already fixed in Merlin and ASUSWRT 81351 and above.

ASUSWRT 81351 is still not available for RT-AC88U publicly. If you are urgent, you can consider Merlin.



router.asus.com will only be redirected to the router firmware dashboard page if you are using DNS from the router.

If you changed your DNS of your wifi interface, it wouldn't redirect properly to the firmware dashboard.

This post has been edited by blacktubi: Dec 29 2019, 03:52 PM

hi all..

i have asus rt-ac86u and would like to make it work as an AP. I already setup it using quick setup mode to work as an AP. It will be connected to my router (mikrotik)

my question is ..the connection coming from the router LAN should be connected to LAN port or WAN port of the Asus?

thanks in advance