[SOLVED] Asus AiMesh between WiFi 5/6 routers

[jellyroll19]

Has anyone setup a Asus AiMesh between WiFi5/6?

I have a WiFi 5 router (AC5300) and planning to setup a AiMesh network and was thinking of a pair of RT-AX92U. Both routers are Tri-Band however the main primary router (AC5300) is based on the WiFi 5 standard.

Would this setup work?

 

[bill001g]

You really want to avoid any mesh/repeater system if you can. You may improve your signal strength but you will greatly reduce the bandwidth and the quality of the signal.
Proper placement is critical it can not just be put in the remote room and it magically get some signal the end device can't.

Even in the very best case you have 2 radio hops each which can be interfered with. In this case it is even worse because the devices do not have a dedicated radio chip to talk back to the router. They actually transmit a interfering signal back to the router.

In general what you want to will work but I would not recommend it unless you have no other options.

The best option is to have ethernet cables and then place a wifi source at the remote end...ie a AP or router running as a AP. This has been the solution used by large business since the beginning of wifi, they do not use stupid "mesh" magic repeaters. If you do not have ethernet cables and you have coax tv cables you can use MoCA devices to get the network to the remote room. You can also use powerline network units to carry the network over the electrical wires. You would then plug a AP into the moca or powerline.

If you can wait until next summer maybe the new wifi6e will solve some of the problem. It has the ability to run on the 6g radio band. It has a massive amount of new bandwidth which should reduce the competition between neighbors. A single router should provide coverage for even fairly large houses. The reason people "need?" mesh systems is all the interference stomping the signals not the distance the radio goes. When everyone uses mesh it just increase the interference and even interferes with itself.

So I would go the ethernet/moca/powerline method with a inexpensive 802.11ac AP/router if you need to do it today. I would not pay extra for any wifi6 stuff since it is already obsolete.