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…

[Jonathan Morris]

Here’s an odd thing. Around 10 minutes ago I lost the Internet. I figured it was the ISP, but then noticed the router was rebooting.

Okay, odd, but maybe a firmware update? No. Same as before.

But now the node has gone and it doesn’t think I have one. The node itself is flashing blue, and that’s it.

What happened? I didn’t do anything!

Edit: Update; bizarre. I had to bring the node downstairs to try and pair it again (as it wasn’t found when scanned in situ).

I also noticed my guest network had gone down – and wasn’t showing at all. Also weird.

Once downstairs, I did a reset and when it restarted (I expected it to be in new mode) it reconnected at 5GHz but with low signal. If there was any proof that this thing gets messed up, having a node about 3 metres away and showing low signal is it!

It then disconnected again and now it’s back, and the guest network is back.

Lucky I was home, as everything fixed in less than 30 minutes, but if I was at work and this had happened when my wife was needing to work, she’d not be happy.

Asus needs to make this more resilient. Incidences like this, and the dropping to 2.4GHz, would make some people too wary to trust it at all.

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