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    Punch Through Two Cinderblock Walls?

    You might be able to make it work with point-to-point wireless links, such as Ubiquiti's airMAX line. The pricier ones can span multiple-kilometer distances, so I think there'd be a reasonable shot at punching through two layers of cinder block. However, you will probably not get better than a...
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    Video conference hiccups - MoCA problem?

    FWIW, I've not seen any comparable misbehavior with my ScreenBeam MoCA 2.5 adapters. Maybe you got a lemon? Also, I wouldn't discount the possibility that this is a weird sort of incompatibility with the directly-connected equipment, because I have seen other misbehaviors that went away once I...
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    Looking for new router

    Yeah, retrofitting ethernet cables into a house without them is messy and expensive. Think about where you most need high performance (media room? home office?) and prioritize those places. Depending on the age of your place, there might be coaxial cable meant for cable TV, which you could...
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    Looking for new router

    Yeah, ASUS does newbies no favor by labeling the slider that way ... don't be afraid to experiment with other settings, especially if you're having poor-connection problems. If you find that means you have no service rather than poor service at the outer perimeter of the router's range, then...
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    Looking for new router

    Yeah, I came to ASUS from Netgear too. At least with the Orbi units I had, there was next to no configurability of the radio setup. ASUS is more configurable, but that also gives you more ways to shoot yourself in the foot. The other thing I've learned since then is that turning the router's...
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    Looking for new router

    You should be able to get away with 160MHz channel bandwidth in the 6GHz band, but I concur with @degrub that it's a bad idea in 5GHz. There is no 5GHz 160MHz channel that doesn't overlap DFS frequencies, and you might be seeing DFS dropouts. (Have you looked into the router's log to see if it...
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    'Simple' MoCa Set up not working, need help

    Please be more specific about the MoCA adapters you're using. Are the ScreenBeams ECB7250 units? If so, I have some experience with those. They can achieve the advertised speeds (2.35Gbps per iperf3 testing) given a clean coax run, as long as they are connected to ethernet gear they like. I...
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    Access Point mode issue, airplay not working.

    A router operating in AP mode should act as a pretty transparent wifi-to-LAN bridge. So this should work, and I recall that it did work for me when I had ASUS wifi gear; and it still works with the non-ASUS APs I use now. We ought to drill down on why it's not working ... but you've provided...
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    schedule internet

    You'd probably be better off asking that on Ubiquiti's forums, community.ui.com. Lots more expertise about UniFi over there than there is here.
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    Move away from ASUS Routers / Mesh

    You should start a new thread rather than hijacking a not-clearly-related one. Having said that, I doubt that just switching brands will make your life better. All of these multi-AP systems require a certain amount of knowledge and tuning to work well. If you provide some details about your...
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    Move away from ASUS Routers / Mesh

    My first reaction to the new map was also "way too many APs", but after reading the text it makes more sense. The two APs in the living room will be broadcasting different SSIDs on different channels, so they are not really conflicting. (Maybe with more flexible gear those could be replaced by...
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    Move away from ASUS Routers / Mesh

    4 APs in 100 sq m does seem like a lot. I wonder if your problems reduce to clients connecting to some other AP than the closest one. Have you experimented with fewer APs? Have you experimented with turning down their transmit power? As @tiddlywink says, you'd be way better off if there's a...
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    Single unused cable as MOCA point-point entry from fiber

    CBS350-8MGP-2X. These have a couple of 2.5G ethernet ports that my MoCA adapters seem to play well with. Since my post above, I bit the bullet and bought another one of these so that there's now one on each end of the coax run, and I get pretty solid 2.5G both ways, with either the ScreenBeam...
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    Wifi 7 NICs questions

    My point was that hardware that supports it is hard to come by. Listing software systems that would be able to use such hardware is not a refutation.
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    New ISP router - has no Guest function - looking for suggestions

    With the ASUS gear I've used, it's possible to put the router into "AP-only" mode so that it just acts as a wireless AP, no routing or DHCP functionality. Running that downstream of your new ISP modem should work as a stopgap solution. It's generally recommended to use a separate VLAN for...
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    Wifi 7 NICs questions

    That works if the 4x4 router and both 2x2 clients support "MU-MIMO" operation. Sadly, even though that feature has been in the wifi standards for awhile, almost no clients support it. (For example, exactly no Apple devices do, last I checked.) There's really zero motivation for client-device...
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    Outdoor WiFi access for iot devices

    This might all be overcomplicating matters. The first thing I'd ask is how old is that window the node is sitting behind? If it's at all recent then it might be made of low-E glass, which is remarkably effective at blocking wifi. You might not have to do more than move the node so it reaches...
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    Can Asus XT9 5Ghz-2 Use Lower Channels (36-64)?

    Ha! I should have thought of that, because I too still have one of those 3x3 MBPs. Still, those were AC-generation, so their max nominal PHY rate is 1300Mbps, barely better than the 1200 you get from a 2x2 AX-generation client. Now that you mention it, I have heard claims that 4x4 APs can do...
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    Can Asus XT9 5Ghz-2 Use Lower Channels (36-64)?

    If it's not selectable in the GUI, then indeed it's probably not possible. I've never owned an XT9, but when I had XT8s their 5GHz-1 radios could only use the lower channels and their 5GHz-2 radios could only use the upper ones. So it seems like a pretty common cost-cutting tactic for ASUS...
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    Best Mesh System (WiFi 6, 6E, 7) for End of 2024?

    If your goal is 1Gbps throughput, you're probably not going to be happy with any mesh (that is, wireless backhaul) setup. You can get to 1G real throughput from client to AP if you are using a 160MHz channel, which is mostly unworkable in the 5GHz band but is available in 6GHz (either WiFi 6E...
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