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    Switching from Asus AIMesh

    You're thinking along the right lines. Just as a matter of terminology, most people seem to use "mesh" to mean multiple APs with wireless backhaul, not wired backhaul. Wireless backhaul is a lifesaver if you really truly can't run an ethernet cable to the places where you need APs, but you pay...
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    Internal antenna router

    Yeah, I find it hard to recommend the XT8, as I had a pretty unsatisfactory experience with a pair of them. The hardware seems fine, and it has very high WAF (wife acceptance factor) if you need to mount it in a visible place, but the firmware has issues. I like @coxhaus's idea of...
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    TP-Link AXE5400 (XE75 Pro) WiFi 6E triband vs BE10000 (BE63) WiFi 7 triband

    Both of those seem to be massive overkill for your situation ... do you have 1Gbps-or-better internet service at this lake house?
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    Unifi 6 Wireless performance issues

    Given your not terribly fat internet pipe, I'd go for 40MHz bandwidth. The extra performance of 80MHz would be mostly or entirely illusory, and you'll have much more trouble finding 3 nonoverlapping 80MHz channels than 40MHz channels --- especially if you find you need to stay out of the DFS...
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    Unifi 6 Wireless performance issues

    The other way in which this seems like unrealistic expectations is that a 600Mbps connection divided among 200 devices equals just 3Mbps per device. The only way in which that's a big enough pipe for modern usage is if most of the devices aren't doing anything at any specific instant. I don't...
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    Mixing AiMesh models. Is the system limited by the unit with the least functionality?

    I doubt it'd break backhaul from the other XT8 nodes. Whether the system is bright enough to configure the XD5 as "backhaul on your only 5GHz radio" rather than "backhaul on the 5GHz-2 radio you don't have", I dunno --- you'd have to experiment. I would not bet lunch on it working, but maybe...
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    Mixing AiMesh models. Is the system limited by the unit with the least functionality?

    Not clear which "settings and features" you have in mind. Using an XT12 as primary is not going to give the XT8s abilities they didn't have otherwise.
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    Mixing AiMesh models. Is the system limited by the unit with the least functionality?

    AIUI, the main problem with asymmetrical AIMesh setups is that the AIMesh GUI will only show you control settings for radios that exist on the primary node. So, avoid setups where the remotes have radios that don't exist on the primary: the best-case scenario is those radios do nothing, and the...
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    Wifi router specs affecting congestion

    That would prevent exactly one of the four trouble scenarios I listed. Your ISP, or the legal authorities, will still not perceive any difference between you and your tenant. Not only is that bad for you, but any remotely tech-savvy tenant will politely decline this setup, because they...
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    Wifi router specs affecting congestion

    I think you need to think about this plan in terms of "what could go wrong?". Some bad days you could wake up to: Some random hacker manages to break into your tenant's laptop and cleans out their bank account. Tenant sues you for not providing adequate firewall protection. (Hardly matters...
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    2.5Gbit to 1Gbit

    I would blame that 100% on the NIC, not the switch. It is not the older tech's fault if the newer tech fails to interoperate with decades-old specs. Having said that, if you're hoping to get to better-than-1Gbps performance, then yes you need to replace the switch.
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    2.5Gbit to 1Gbit

    We've gotten spoiled by the fact that 1Gbps UTP ethernet is such well-settled technology: barring faulty patch cables or the like, most pairings of devices have Just Worked for a decade or two. The higher speed ratings seem not to be sorted out quite as well yet. I've not run into the exact...
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    How to troubleshoot intermittent, slow speeds over the internet?

    Those results are all over the map. If you don't explain what conditions each test was run under, it's hard to make sense of them.
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    Asus vs. Orbi

    I had an Orbi RBK853 system, I think exactly the same as yours except 2 satellites not one, back in 2021. I was enchanted with it for about a month, because it was a big performance improvement over the Apple Airports I had before it. My level of enchantment went downhill to the point where I...
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    Link DOWN - Losing connection with the router

    I'm wondering about a flaky ethernet cable --- they do go bad sometimes for no apparent reason.
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    SOHO network upgrade: XT9 vs XT12 vs DECO vs switches

    I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you care about the speed of the connection from the local NAS to the desktop? I'd try to get them both plugged into the same switch, preferably a 2.5G switch. That won't help much if the NAS can only do 1G, but it sounded like it might be able to...
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    Unmanaged to managed switch

    I'm fairly concerned by this setup. I'm not surprised that your managed switch can run a DHCP server --- that's fairly common. I am surprised that you seem to be relying on it for NAT and firewall service, because switches are not normally able to do that at all, let alone do it...
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    Nominal WiFi Speeds

    Yeah, as @Tech9 's numbers show, the best real-world single-client throughput you can hope for is about 2/3rds of the nominal Tx rate. There are a number of reasons for that such as packet overhead, but one of the big ones is that a wifi channel is a shared medium, so you can't just blast away...
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    GT-AXE16000 UNII-4 Question ( wireless backhual XT8s)

    Does look like that, doesn't it? Although I would not put a lot of faith in that graphic being 100% accurate, because they obviously didn't vet it very carefully --- e.g. the channel counts at the left make no sense. One thing you could check is whether AIMesh on the AXE16000 lets you...
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    GT-AXE16000 UNII-4 Question ( wireless backhual XT8s)

    ASUS enabled U-NII-4 on the XT8s about two years ago. If they haven't done it by now for AXE16000, I'd say it's a safe bet that they won't ever. Maybe the chipset on that device can't support those frequencies.
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