Look more closely. X axis is clearly labeled in ms. Legend is in the data table.I find the charts hard to understand in the review because no legend or list of what UOM is applied to which value is listed.
Look more closely. X axis is clearly labeled in ms. Legend is in the data table.I find the charts hard to understand in the review because no legend or list of what UOM is applied to which value is listed.
Yes but not for the bottom chart.Look more closely. X axis is clearly labeled in ms. Legend is in the data table.
And worse, AiMesh doesn't use Ethernet backhaul effectively. So even if you don't need the (Wi-Fi) meshpart of AiMesh and use Ethernet to connect all its nodes, it will give you worse performance than manually converting the routers to APs and configuring them yourself.
Thank youWhat "bottom chart"?
If you are referring to the "Single Station Throughput" chart on page 2, the x axis is Mbps.
You are correct that one wasn't labeled. I changed the caption to indicate Mbps.
non-AIMesh AP mode seems to give me more consistent results and more control (such as being able to manually spread channel usage around and lock a couple of fixed position IP cameras to a specific AP).
Spreading spectrum so that your APs don't congest with one another will *absolutely* produce better results than what I obtained here.
Spreading spectrum so that your APs don't congest with one another will *absolutely* produce better results than what I obtained here.
please post commands and how to steps?you could change nodes channel after Aimesh setup by SSH commands directly!
WPS is needed for initial setup, or everytime you need to add a node. You can disable it after you set up the ai-mesh.I am not keen on the idea of having WPS enabled for my old home with no Ethernet wiring. I guess I need to start wiring the house for a couple WAPs and a capable managed PoE switch, as I’d rather have more router features and an Ethernet backhaul
Orbi does 2.4GHz backhaul even when you're using 5GHz?Don't get me started about Orbi - the bandwidth pig that it is - the hidden backhaul on 5GHz UINII-3, is replicated on 2.4GHz as well, which is pretty harmful in the ISM band when in camps in odd channels - at least there, the 2.4GHz hidden SSID is shared with the Child SSID's - the 5GHz children are limited to UNII-1 and UNII-2 with DFS rules
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/orbi-the-bandwidth-annihilator.47742/
Orbi really is brute force, and not very neighbor friendly - camps on band channels in ISM 2.4GHz so destroys at least two of the common 1/6/11 there, and pretty much takes up bandwidth on UNII-1 and UNII-3 in most places. In a dense environment like Apartments and Condos, Orbi isn't really the right answer, in suburban environments with single family homes, it's still not very friendly there...
anyways - in most of my rants - I do try to provide some backup into to justify things.
I haven't heard anything back from Netgear on the Orbi observations - including the various bugs I've observed on the 802.11 captures.
Orbi does 2.4GHz backhaul even when you're using 5GHz?
I’ve been experimenting with 4 X RT-AC68U units for my Wifi coverage here at home, either set up as AIMesh Parent AP + 3 Nodes (note my main router is an AC86U hidden away in a cupboard with Wifi turned off - don’t ask) or just with all 4 in normal AP mode. I have wired connectivity/backhaul to everything.
Much as I’d like AIMesh to magically “make it all better”, at this point in the AIMesh dev cycle (and I’ve been playing on and off since the public beta days nearly a year ago) reverting and just running in normal non-AIMesh AP mode seems to give me more consistent results and more control (such as being able to manually spread channel usage around and lock a couple of fixed position IP cameras to a specific AP).
From my own experience for my particular situation AIMesh isn’t anywhere near living up to the marketing hype - for now at least. Be interested to hear other’s experiences.
for 20MHz control channel onlyplease post commands and how to steps?
Ok, so my two day experience with AiMesh (86U/68U) is that while it does extend the useful range of the 5G band providing faster speeds to the farthest devices, devices in between the main router (86U) and the node (68U) quite often connect to the node resulting in slower speeds than if a single router was used. Interestingly, several devices connect to the node even when the signal strength is weaker than the main router. The roaming block list, currently limited to 3 devices, doesn't really seem to do much at all. This system would be great if you could actually assign some devices to either the router or the node. With some things, notebooks, tablets and phones it doesn't matter that they roam and it is actually better that way. But other things, TVs, game consoles and desktop computers work better locked to the faster connection. All settings are default for the most part other than the typical security changes.
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