Reply To: ASUS ZenWiFi AX Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System Not sure if this is the right place to ask…. I am thinking of upgrading my Google Mesh wifi to the above. Has anyone used this and does it…

[dodgydrains]

UK Sentinel wrote:

Ok, so I spoke with ASUS again and this is direct from the engineer responsible for all things ZEnwifi . Alas I do not have a ZENwifi system to test this, so will have to take ASUS word on this and try sending a feedback form so they can look at the issue in more details. ———– Now 5G-2 main SSID no longer is the Prelink SSID. Thus, UI will not display Prelink SSID, if user finished the QIS setup then 5G-2 SSID encryption would not be Open System. ———-

Thanks for that, I completed the whole setup using the app again.

I have completed this again, but this time using the following hard factory reset method rather than the pin reset I am used to:

https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1039078

This time, on setup it gave the option in the app to set SSID name and password for 2.4GHz, 5GHz-1 and most importantly 5GHz-2.  Previously 5GHz-2 was not an option.

You can also set different SSID and password for 2.4GHz, 5GHz-1 and 5GHz-2.  Again, previously 5GHz-2 was not an option.

It added _dwb to the end of the 5GHz-2 SSID but keeps the same password as the 2.4GHz and 5GHZ-1.

Not really sure what the 2 different reset methods actually do.

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