Reply To: DSL-AC68U – Support setup as AiMesh RE node/child (Beta) ASUS have kindly given myself access to the first beta for the DSL-AC68U to now act as a Child/Node within an Aimesh configuration. ‘Note: this is a beta so normal…

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Re-posted from snbforums —

Was waiting for this to put a spare DSL-AC68U to good use. Seems to have an issue with the connection quality between the node and the router however — it shows as just 1 bar on the 5Ghz band (for the backhaul). It also seems to be using a different channel (52) that is different to the other access points (was set manually to 149).

Existing network — a DSL-AC68U as my main router (connected to TPG here in Australia) and a RT-AC68U as a node (running wirelessly). Has been working ok – but the distance/walls between them and where the node needed to be (to hardwire some devices) was a bit far at times.

Loaded the beta firmware onto the spare DSL-AC68U – seemed to sync fine and it was up and running. Placed it in-between the existing node and the main router. Noticed some devices dropping off the network, streaming audio issues (an Arlo baby camera) and devices (like my iPhone) getting kicked off the network. Turned off Airtime fairness, set the channels to manual, turned off beam forming, played around with the Roaming assistant settings (set both 2.4 and 5Ghz to -70) with moderate success. Still some issues with streaming and stability however. Then noticed that no matter how close the DSL-AC68U was to the main node – still 1 bar. Literally 2 feet from it…

Reset the 2 nodes and re-added them – same issue. Wondering if there’s any other reset process I should be following, if the channel the new node is on should actually match the rest of the network or if there’s some known issue(s) with the beta firmware at this time.

Hopefully just some small tweaks required! Any advice is appreciated.

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