Ok, I just bought two Asus RT-AX92U routers a few weeks ago. They’re in a mesh configuration. I have them setup with smart connect turned off so I have 3 different SSIDs. (I bought it because it supports wifi6 802.11 ax… my phone and PC both support it… and my Internet is 400 Mb/s service, so I want 400 Mb/s wifi…) Twice now, the wireless has dropped in our house and the SSIDs were not broadcasting or nothing would connect for a few minutes. This was a $400 router! I’m expecting near perfect wireless reliability. I downloaded a wifi analyzer on my Android phone. I moved the routers’ channels so they’re not interfering with our neighbors’ wifis. That did not fix the issue. There are no firmware updates available for the router. Any suggestions?
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If you’re using Mesh, all the routers in the Mesh should use the same SSID.
So if the Mesh routers all use the same channel but a different SSID, you’ll get trouble in wifi reliablilty.
Mesh routers do use the same channel and the same SSID.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200930161132/https://au.pcmag.com/netgear-orbi-high-performance-ac3000-tri-band-wi-fi-system-r/59810/how-to-set-up-a-wi-fi-mesh-network
In my world, “mesh” refers to an actual network topology which is a different animal altogether. So I find it necessary to ask, is there a specific setting inside the router to enable wifi “mesh”?
If so, perhaps you could give me a brief rundown on what it does.
I have dual SOHO Routers in my home. If you check my link below to my how-to guide describing how to add a second router to your home, you’ll want to pay attention to “Version 1” wherein you interconnect the two routers LAN port to LAN port. This is how mine is configured. It’s worth noting, I also added an access point to my network and had to add the same SSID/password to it as the routers in order for it to work within my network.
https://www.computing.net/howtos/sh…
Router 1 is at IP 192.168.1.1
So when I preconfigured router 2, I gave it LAN IP: 192.168.1.2 with default gateway 192.168.1.1
Then I connected router 2 to router 1 as described (LAN port to LAN port). When I had it running, I then connected to the management interface of router 2 and configured the wireless network using the exact same SSID and password used on router 1. This extended my wifi network to router 2.
That’s all it took. That’s all it should take, to add your wireless network to an additional router…….or multiple routers if you wanted to add a bunch.
So my questions are these:
1) Is the wireless dropping on both routers at the same time?
or
2) Is it only dropping on one router?
3) If you have more than one SSID, are all 3 stopping at the same time for the same length of time or is it just one SSID?
If only one, then chances are that unit has a bad radio. If it’s dropping on both at the same time, then you have another issue which may be related to the “mesh” setting if that’s an actual setting you choose on that router.
If it’s only happening to one SSID then it’s possible it’s a setting on the actual wireless network. I know I can control time of day that the wifi is available so maybe you’ve inadvertently shut it off for a period of time.
As a side question I’m curious about the 3 different SSID’s in your home. If you don’t mind me asking, why 3? I can see two, one for mom and dad and a separate restricted one for the kids.
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
***William Henley***
If you have setup the routers in mesh mode, both routers use the same SSID, right, should be.
What is the 2nd and 3rd SSID and did they come from?
A friend of mine had exactly the same issue and had configured the routers with differnt SSID but same channel.
And so the connection dropped from time to time.
I reconfigured the routers remotely, so that all routers in the mesh system uses the same channel and same SSID and it works perfectly.