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…

[damo2k]

Ok so this morning the node went “offline” again with the constant blinking blue LED. There was nothing in the logs showing “radar”.

Therefore I started the process of downgrading the firmware on the router and node to 386.49873 and do a factory reset on both.

I did the router first, downgrade, factory reset, then setup. I then unplugged it and moved onto the node. It was quite difficult to connect to the node, as the blue LED kept flashing after startup, even after factory resetting a few times. I eventually was able to connect over ethernet to flash the older firmware, let it reboot and did a factory reset. The blue led flashing came back (on the older firmware!), and seemed to periodically restart itself. I did another factory reset and turned on the primary router. Eventually the node started up connected up to the mesh network itself. I though I would have to trigger this or at least hint that this is how I wanted it to operate, but it just joined the mesh network itself which was a bit strange, no? Hopefully there is no underlying hardware issue with the node.

Anyway both have been running for a few hours. Router and node are still in same locations in the house. I haven’t moved them closer to each other yet. The are still connected via the 5GHZ-2 backhaul. The signal hovers between -62 to -69dBm (Great) and -70 to -72dBm (Good). I was able to achieve 501.87Mbps download and 51.22Mbps upload over wifi while connected to the node (verified I was connected to the node via the app). This is on a Virgin Media 500Mb/50Mb account. Hopefully the issues were only caused by the 388.21099 firmware. I guess time will tell.

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