› UKTH forums › 🛜 Wireless Routers & Modems › ASUS & Wireless › ASUS ZenWiFi BT8 Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 7 System – Official Thread I have just upgraded my ASUS AiMesh system from 3 x ET12 (with one ET12 as the main router) and 7 x XD4 to 6 x BT8 (with one BT8... › Reply To: ASUS ZenWiFi BT8 Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 7 System – Official Thread I have just upgraded my ASUS AiMesh system from 3 x ET12 (with one ET12 as the main router) and 7 x XD4 to 6 x BT8 (with one BT8…
Common feature (problem) with ASUS AiMesh backhaul – just check that Ethernet Backhaul Mode is enabled as this should then make wireless backhaul OFF, but often doesn’t work as you would expect ?
ASUS ZenWiFi Pro ET12 uses the 6 GHz band for wireless backhaul, maybe worth looking at ASUS UI > Advanced Settings > Wireless > General and see if there is an option for ‘BAND’ 6 GHz to ‘Hide SSID that would have been used for the backhaul’, but unsure if this would have any impact on you other 6 GHz band SSIDs and if any clients are connected to them ?
FWiW: setting EBM to disabled to will allow failover to wireless backhaul should your wired backhaul ever fail, so it is there for a reason but all this extra visible SSIDs are annoying.
EBM prioritises wired connections for backhaul, but if the wired connection is unavailable, disabling EBM will enable the system to switch to using wireless backhaul for communication between mesh nodes or access point.
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