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If the above does not work, then try try disabling the 5Ghz (backhaul) roaming assistant. Do you live near an airport or military establishment as issue maybe radar interference ?
will do. Thanks a lot again!
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I also have some background information which may help other ASUS ZenWifi XT8 owners. ASUS ZenWifi XT8 Details
- The ASUS ZenWifi XT8 can support upto 9 wireless AiMesh Nodes
- The ASUS ZenWifi XT8 can support upto a theoretical maximum number of wifi clients.
- 2.4G: 128 wifi clients
- 5G-1: 128 wifi clients
- 5G-2: 64 wifi clients
โnote: this is a theoretical maximum โ
Are those limits per XT8 system (router plus all nodes) or per XT8 unit?
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Welp. Hehehe after 4 days, nodeโs LED light turned yellow again (weak signal). So frustrating.
will try disabling roaming assistant now. Sigh.
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Is there any clues in the General log to suggest what is happening ?
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J.G.Ballard).
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Yes, have a look through the log and see if anything is detailed in log when XT8 backhual dropped back to 2.4GHz ?
( I removed the link you provided to the logs – security)
Alas, hopefully you know what time this happened, so this will enable you to pinpoint logs for that time period.
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Interesting, what is device [44:a8:fc:de:65:6a] ? and was this event log around the time the Aimesh backhaul dropped to 2.4GHz ?
If disabling roaming assistant for you backhaul doesn’t prevent wireless backhaul from dropping to 2.4GHz, I would suggest you factory reset your AiMesh XT8 routers (all) and rebuild all (factory reset all) your mesh system from scratch
Edit: as per @larryr comments below, could the XT8 router or node be rebooting without your knowledge ?
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Interesting, what is device [44:a8:fc:de:65:6a] ? and was this event log around the time the Aimesh backhaul dropped to 2.4GHz ? If disabling roaming assistant for you backhaul doesnโt prevent wireless backhaul from dropping to 2.4GHz, I would suggest you factory reset your AiMesh XT8 routers (all) and rebuild all (factory reset all) your mesh system from scratch
Just adding that I have a MACID lookup table and 44:a8:fc is showing as “Apple” device of some kind. And in reference to the May 5 date in the log – that is normal when it reboots until it can connect to NTP to get current date/time.
I also had my node drop to 2.4 after 33-34 days of uptime, which is still great in my mind. I’ve just decided to schedule a once a week 4am reboot and hopefully things stay as stable as they have been for me. I have my backhaul locked to channel 173 and locked to 160 and GUI shows “Great” for connection strength.
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I also had my node drop to 2.4 after 33-34 days of uptime, which is still great in my mind.
Great news
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Interesting, what is device [44:a8:fc:de:65:6a] ? and was this event log around the time the Aimesh backhaul dropped to 2.4GHz ? If disabling roaming assistant for you backhaul doesnโt prevent wireless backhaul from dropping to 2.4GHz, I would suggest you factory reset your AiMesh XT8 routers (all) and rebuild all (factory reset all) your mesh system from scratch
itโs an iphone.
I dread the factory settings reset, but if it would cure the backhaul problem, then i will have to try it and rebuild all my settings.
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I dread the factory settings reset, but if it would cure the backhaul problem, then i will have to try it and rebuild all my settings.
Alas, every time ASUS release a new firmware, tweaking is usually required, so alas no guarantees
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I also had my node drop to 2.4 after 33-34 days of uptime, which is still great in my mind.
Great news
Interesting, what is device [44:a8:fc:de:65:6a] ? and was this event log around the time the Aimesh backhaul dropped to 2.4GHz ? If disabling roaming assistant for you backhaul doesnโt prevent wireless backhaul from dropping to 2.4GHz, I would suggest you factory reset your AiMesh XT8 routers (all) and rebuild all (factory reset all) your mesh system from scratch
Just adding that I have a MACID lookup table and 44:a8:fc is showing as โAppleโ device of some kind. And in reference to the May 5 date in the log โ that is normal when it reboots until it can connect to NTP to get current date/time. I also had my node drop to 2.4 after 33-34 days of uptime, which is still great in my mind. Iโve just decided to schedule a once a week 4am reboot and hopefully things stay as stable as they have been for me. I have my backhaul locked to channel 173 and locked to 160 and GUI shows โGreatโ for connection strength.
thanks also Larry!
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I dread the factory settings reset, but if it would cure the backhaul problem, then i will have to try it and rebuild all my settings.
Alas, every time ASUS release a new firmware, tweaking is usually required, so alas no guarantees
do i reset to factory settings via the web interface in the : Administration-Restore/Save/Upload Settin-Restore and click on the initialize all settings?
or do i reset via button on the router?
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