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I just want to say the RT-AX56U is a pile of crap...

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As an AiMesh node in my network this thing barely functions. Devices trying to connect to it get horribly hobbled connections and/or no valid connection period and the wired devices on it are either also randomly crippled or the thing seems to crap out trying to send large amounts of data across it (the connection drops and presumably it reboots).
 
If you are using WIFI backhaul, moderate to poor WIFI performance is not unusual. The AX56U is not a powerhouse. Wimp more like it. You get what you pay for...
 
I did buy it used on eBay, admittedly. I've ridden it as long as I can take it, it'll be getting ripped out and replaced with a 5-port switch (I could just use as an AiMesh node across an Ethernet backhaul but I'm questioning if that's worth it since I feel like the practical reason I use it would be moot like that anyway - the wifi in my place is so strong from the root node I think I really only need an AiMesh node at the back of my place to carry all the wired connections from that side to the root).
 
Would work much better with Ethernet backhaul
 
Yes, yes it is. Just like the RT-AX58U too.
 
I guess I'll run it over the Ethernet backhaul. I don't think this provides any functional difference over just running a wired switch to the actually-working AiMesh node (I'm more concerned about the stuff wired into it than what wifi access it's providing to the rest of my place) but, eh, one less thing to set up.
 
Everything. Was the most buggiest router I've ever used. My network improved by 2000% when I unplugged it from my main network router (RT-AX88U 'orig').
 
So this is the endgame of this thread.

The router, despite now being wired to the next closest AiMesh node, fell back into its horrid "1.5 Mb/s" mode where anything connected to it was barely usable (like cannot even load the admin page for the main node).

While I'd love to know what causes this the fact remains that, even after I rebooted it, I couldn't get it to pull back up to the 225+ Mb/s of my Internet connection so I have yanked out the AX56U and put in a regular old five-port switch in its place.

It had its chance, it's getting e-cycled now. The saga is over. >:|
 
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