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    RT-AX92u manual settings for stable wireless connection

    Somewhat off-topic question, but what happens if you set up the RT-AX92U as a repeater with a non-Asus main router? Will it automatically hide the backhaul band?
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    Could I connect two RT-AC68Us with ethernet to make a dual-band 5 GHz AIMesh node?

    Right of course, by "out of sync" I meant causing interference. With a repeater setup, there is no interference between the main router and the repeaters, in fact they have to be on the same channel, in that sense they are "synced" not to interfere with each other. But with the media bridge +...
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    Could I connect two RT-AC68Us with ethernet to make a dual-band 5 GHz AIMesh node?

    But isn't media bridge mode just repeater mode with the backhaul band not shared with clients and the other bands turned off? A potential issue I'm seeing is that the 2 routers will be using the same frequency, but unlike a true dual-band router or a single-band repeater, the receiving and...
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    Could I connect two RT-AC68Us with ethernet to make a dual-band 5 GHz AIMesh node?

    I'm using an RT-AC68U as an AIMesh node, it works well. I recently picked a second RT-AC68U almost for free. And I had this crazy thought -- could I link the two of them with ethernet and use them essentially as one dual-band 5 GHz AIMesh node? That way I will have a dedicated backhaul band. I...
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    Can an AIMesh node "consolidate" 4x4 bandwidth to 2x2 or can it only forward half of what it receives to a 2x2 client?

    Fair enough, no worries.
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    Can an AIMesh node "consolidate" 4x4 bandwidth to 2x2 or can it only forward half of what it receives to a 2x2 client?

    Thank you, but I knew all of this. Still useful information to put out there. I like how you basically opened with -- let's just ignore your question and talk about something else LOL. My question was about spatial streams on the same (repeater) band. But I think it's been answered now, and the...
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    Can an AIMesh node "consolidate" 4x4 bandwidth to 2x2 or can it only forward half of what it receives to a 2x2 client?

    I don't think I'm confusing them, my question is not about the relationship between PHY link rates and real world rates, I know real world is about half (as per my math in the OP). And that applies both to the link between the main router and node as well as the node and the client, I get that...
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    RT-AX92u manual settings for stable wireless connection

    Thanks. The instructions seem to only apply when an RT-AX92U is the main router. What if you have say an RT-AX86U as the main router and an RT-AX92U as the node (or 2 of them as nodes). You can't control their bands or anything once you add them as nodes and the RT-AX86U only has a single 5 GHz...
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    Can an AIMesh node "consolidate" 4x4 bandwidth to 2x2 or can it only forward half of what it receives to a 2x2 client?

    I'm not sure you understood my question. I agree with what you said, I'm not asking about speeds so much as spatial streams. I don't know how else to phrase my question since I asked it 3 different ways in the original post. :D Let me try a 4th way. Forget about theoretical and actual speeds...
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    Can an AIMesh node "consolidate" 4x4 bandwidth to 2x2 or can it only forward half of what it receives to a 2x2 client?

    Kind of a weird question, but I hope it's clear what I'm asking. Let's say I have two RT-AC86Us set up as an AIMesh router and node. There is no dedicated backhaul band, so the node is basically a repeater. They both have 4x4 5 GHz ac radios. Now let's say I have a 2x2 phone connected to the...
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    RT-AX92u manual settings for stable wireless connection

    Is this for both the main router and the nodes? I don't see mention of this in the firmware notes for the October update. There's a mention of ethernet backhaul freeing up all bands (how wasn't this a thing already), but nothing about the ax band being made available to clients connected to...
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    RT-AX92u manual settings for stable wireless connection

    Hi, can anyone confirm that it's impossible to use the RT-AX92U's Wi-Fi 6 band with end devices if you use AIMesh? It's reserved solely for backhaul? With a 160 MHz channel and 4x4, the theoretical link to my RT-AX86U would be 3-4 gbps which is way more than I need, so I have no issue sharing...
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    Has the WPS vulnerability been patched/fixed in Asus AC and AX routers?

    Some routers have that option, but Asus doesn't.
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    Has the WPS vulnerability been patched/fixed in Asus AC and AX routers?

    It's possible to fix the brute force attack by having progressively longer lockout periods and maybe after 10 tries totally turn off WPS. Then maybe if you tried to turn it on again manually in the GUI, you get a warning message and it only lets you turn it on for 10 minutes or something. There...
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    Has the WPS vulnerability been patched/fixed in Asus AC and AX routers?

    Yeah but I think that's mostly because the PIN is printed on the router... And anyone who gets that PIN has perpetual access to your network as long as WPS is on. What I'd really like to know is exactly what measures Asus has taken to prevent 1) The brute force attack and 2) The pixie dust...
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    Has the WPS vulnerability been patched/fixed in Asus AC and AX routers?

    It was a reddit thread and I had to delete it because of how much hate I was getting. And also I didn't want to spread misinformation in case they were right... I agree, I always turn it off and then instruct the owner that if they ever need it they can turn it on temporarily and then off...
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    Has the WPS vulnerability been patched/fixed in Asus AC and AX routers?

    I thought so too but when I expressed that view in another online community many people laughed at me and insulted me, saying it had been patched a long time ago. No one really offered specifics other than the AP locking you out after x failed attempts and/or having progressively longer lockout...
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    Has the WPS vulnerability been patched/fixed in Asus AC and AX routers?

    Hi, I can't find information about this anywhere online. You know how WPS could be exploited by using software called Reaver to brute force the password within hours or days? Subsequently there was another WPS vulnerability where they could extract the PIN from a single inquiry by using the...
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    AX3000/AX58U: 160 MHz enabled by default, but no DFS?

    Yeah, that's what I did. I disabled it and stuck to 20/40/80 with auto channel. I wanted to leave it on for futureproofing purposes, but given that it can never be used without DFS I didn't wanna take the risk that the owner might have issues. Besides, without enabling auto DFS I'm pretty sure...
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    AX3000/AX58U: 160 MHz enabled by default, but no DFS?

    I'm setting up someone's RT-AX3000 remotely. They're not very tech savvy, so I can't ask them to install WiFi Analyzer and scan their channels. But I noticed that 160 MHz channel is enabled by default on that router (It wasn't on my RT-AX86U). At the same time "Auto select channel including DFS...
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