ASUS ZenWiFi BT8 Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 7 System – Official Thread

[Nick Holland]

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 as the main router) and 3 x ET12 (as ASUS finally released WRT 5.0 for ET12).

Everything works well and the two different models seem to coexist properly. All the mesh nodes have wired backhaul and I have four SSIDs, one for the 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz bands and one 2.4GHz for my IOT devices.

However, I now also have 9 new visible SSIDs with 32 alphanumeric character names, 3 for each band. I imagine these are for the wireless backhaul channels on the ET12s, which I don’t use. Is there any way these can be hidden?

BT8 FW Version: 3.0.0.6.102_56839 and ET12 FW Version:3.0.0.6.102_36597

I originally made some posts in the ET12 topic before I purchased the BT8s

 

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[UK Sentinel]

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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