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tropik
post Sep 18 2023, 09:03 PM

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Anyone familiar with the signal strength of the Asus AX56U?

Not sure if the antenna count has practical effect on performance.

Considering this model or the others such as Asus AX1800U or Asus AX55.
tropik
post Oct 11 2023, 01:19 PM

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QUOTE(enixcv123 @ Oct 10 2023, 08:13 AM)
Hello All,

I am looking for some recommendations.
My house is actually a three storey link house, and my main router is sitting at the third floor, the current setup is as below:-

1. Main Router - at third floor (TP-Link C80) it was quite cheap but it served me quite well for past few years without any issue, even managed to achieve 500mbps with the recent upgrade. (Only third floor, 2nd floor only managed to receive mostly up to 100mbps)

2. At the ground floor, I have an AP setup with Archer c7 by using the power line (since I didn't pull any Lan cable, so this was only the option that I had) , my powerline is TP-Link av600, so resulted my ground floor only managed to received about 50-60mbps, of course it's enuf for blackbox movies and CCTV, but still I am looking something more robust solution in term of bigger coverage like going to kitchen area and more mbps.

I was thinking a few options, no sure how effective would be.

1. Change the powerline to av1300 so that it support 1300mpbs then would able to help on the archer c7 as an AP.
2. Change both to mesh routers, but only with the wireless backhaul, not sure how it going to perform.
3. Pull a cable (this would be something very difficult.

Any comment guys.
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I got 4 units of tri-band mesh to let go, but on Wifi5 though.

Let me know if interested.

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post Mar 12 2025, 06:51 PM

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Sifus,

I'm using Asus TUF AX4200 as the main router, located at ground floor.

Also having a Huawei EchoLife WA8021V5 set as AP, wired to the Asus, located at the back of upper floor.

Both set with the same SSID.

My issue is, my S23U phone can switch to the Huawei and connectivity works fine.

But when I go downstairs, it switches back to Asus but without internet.

What is the problem here?
Do I need to change the SSID for the AP?

 

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