ai-mesh compatibility issue between ac3100(20379) & AC68U(20624)

[Sammy2]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320329
asus certifed refurb RT-AC1900 is 75 + tax (depends on your state) with free shipping

ac66u b1, however, as someone pointed out, not officially list, so I cant be sure even if it does have aimesh on my uncle's comupter

Promo Code Expired. Back to $90. No deal for me now!!

 

[monaro-ds]

they also have refurb ac66u b1 for 70$

 

[indark]

RT-AC66U-B1 does support Aimesh. Mine runs the latest firmware just fine!

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as I said in other post, I do see that on uncle's router but I I have no knowledge on that as I did not buy that router for ai-mesh for my uncle.
I dont want people to rush and buy those, then later come blame me for things not working.
Just like some people will blame asus for what t-mobile should support, just have to be cautious.

To get this straight, the only way the f/w update allowed your RT-AC68U yo be seen as a node is if you took it off line, reset it, plugged it into a pc or laptop with an Ethernet cable, went to the GUI, updated the f/w from there then told it to be am AiMesh node?
Just trying to understand how you did this manually.
Thanks
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I dont take it offline, I simply go the the firmware update page and upload the firmware

it upload and takes sometime to update just like it normally would.
I also did not re-download the firmware, it's the same 20624 firmware that I had issue with.
So maybe there was glitch on the auto update process? or bad luck ? I dont know for sure as happy wife happy life for now with ai-mesh up and running.

And doesn't seems like others are experiencing issue with similar setup.