Hi, need advice and do bear with me. I’m still noob and trying to figure out the lingos as well.

isp : unifi 300mbps
Router : ac66u (4 years old)
AP : deco m4 (free from unifi)
House : 3200sqft
Devices connected : 15x (tv,phones,pc,ipcamera etc)

so my asus router is connected on my ground floor and my M4 is on the second floor connected via lan cable and settings change to AP mode.

before this I’m able to get 300mbps on downstairs but now I’m only getting less than 30mbps downstairs even standing next to the router.
It’s only after I disconnect the 2.4ghz then reconnect then I’m getting the full speed.
I’m suspecting that since I’m using same settings and name for the wifi, if I’m at the ground floor it is still connected to the upstairs M4 and does not auto-connect to the router.
How to fix this? Should I buy a wifi6 router to fix this??

This post has been edited by sicklad77: Aug 26 2021, 10:03 AM

For me personally, since I have a mesh upstairs(backhaul Ethernet) and my modem downstairs. I just maintain one same name and let the devices in my household figure it out.

Couldn’t be bothered with two different SSID to be choosing and connecting and most of the time I will get full speed even if I’m upstairs. And I even have at least 20+ smart switches, 3 tv connecting & same time laptop running p2p and I don’t see a difference in speed throttling imo

This post has been edited by sicklad77: Nov 30 2023, 04:28 PM