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]

Does Facebook use these routers by any chance? 😉

I did the now-removed update and turned off the auto-reboot schedule, and woke up to see the mesh node sitting on a weak 2.4GHz signal again – so this update certainly isn’t/wasn’t good.

I am still at a loss as to how it will drop to 2.4GHz despite having a good (no, great) signal. There shouldn’t even be a 2.4 connection as you can only choose between ethernet or 5GHz. Even rebooting doesn’t seem to force an attempt to reconnect, but after a while (maybe a few hours) it can fix itself. There’s no logic or consistency, so sometimes I wonder if it’s just pot luck. [The two routers aren’t that far apart; around 10 metres. I’m starting to think I’d be better off just having a single router, which almost covers the whole house]

I’ve turned auto reboot back on, which will hopefully cover me for the time being.

How can it be so difficult for Asus to fix? I’d rather there be a new option added to force 5GHz (or restrict 2.4GHz for backhaul).

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