Question AiMesh 88U Pro with XT8, dual tri band ?

[homer68]

Hi

I have now the following Aimesh setup:

I have an Asus RT AXE88U Pro Router and 4 XT8 nodes. My idea was when buying the 88Upro that I would connect 1 XT8 node by cable to the router and that then the other 3XT8 nodes would be capable of using the 5GHz-2 band from the wired backhauled XT8 node, which are triband

However the XT8 will only connect to the AXE88U Pro. In the GUI I only see the specs of the AXE88U (meaning two bands). Although when I look at the radios of the XT8 nodes, all 3 are active.

Any solution or suggestion for this?

Thanks

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

See if this helps;
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/z...de-to-existing-2-node-mesh.71407/#post-676269

As for your dual and tri band inquiry, you're using the AX88E to provide internet connectivity through the Ethernet cable, the wireless bandwidth does not come into play over the Mesh network.

 

[homer68]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

See if this helps;
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/z...de-to-existing-2-node-mesh.71407/#post-676269

As for your dual and tri band inquiry, you're using the AX88E to provide internet connectivity through the Ethernet cable, the wireless bandwidth does not come into play over the Mesh network.

thanks for your answer. To be clear I had a system with 4 XT8 working well. I know added the AXE88U as router, restarting the network setup. Since the first node is backhaul connected with the AXE88 by wire, I quite don't understand why from the node on between the 4 nodes they can not use tri-band.
I think I don't quite get your answer ;-)

 

[bill001g]

The problem is all mesh solutions are proprietary, some times even different types of mesh systems from the same company will not interconnect.

This is likely a read the manual thing and see if there is some setting that will allow you to do that. There are systems that allow the remote nodes to connect to each other rather than the direct router. This is much worse than the case of simple repeater since you now have multiple repeater hops each causes massive reduction in performance.

In your case you solve the extra repeater hop by using a ethernet cable. That in theory would let you only have 1 repeater hop. The main question is does the system you are using allow for this case, the manufacture may not because of how badly it performs. Maybe there is a setting that allow the remote node to communicate directly.

Are you sure you even need this. Way to many people are obsessed with how many "BARS" they get. When you use a repeater/mesh system of any kind you may get more bars but the quality of the data and the amount of data is greatly reduced.

You might be able to just use the single remote radio connected by ethernet running it as AP.

If you look at the marketing garbage they put repeater boxes in every room. That is stupid since the repeater box must still connect to the main radio source. If it gets a good signal your end device would also get a good signal from the main router. If it gets a poor signal it will get poor data communication and resending the data to the end device in the same room will degrade it further.