ASUS ET8 Roaming Assistant Disconnecting 2 nodes from each other (possible fix)

[ROBYER1]

This is a tip post as I was noticing my 2 ET8 AiMesh nodes would disconnect randomly from each other. Hope this helps others or comment if it did/you have any tips!

I have a setup of 2 ET8 notes and I would notice occasionally I would have the non-router node upstairs disconnecting. In the system logs I would see 'disconnected weak signal strength station'. After some reading, I realised this could be the Roaming Assistant feature which disconnects devices that are below a certain strength of connection. Rather than raising the threshold of the roaming assistant, I went to the Wifi settings on the web dashboard > Roaming block list and added the two nodes to that list.

This means that now the nodes won't forcibly disconnect themselves if there is a slight fluctuation of wireless connection for a second or two which I assume was happening.

This seems to have solved the disconnecting node issue I was having but I am surprised the firmware doesn't already deal with this scenario if there are only 2 connected nodes in the network.

 

[Embattle]

I'm giving this a try on my XT8s.

 

[Embattle]

Sadly didn't work, still lost the node connected to my Nas thus the music went off.

 

[tgl]

I'm hardly an expert, but there are a lot of recommendations on these boards to just disable the roaming assistant altogether. WiFi clients are perfectly capable of switching to a stronger signal by themselves; if the router tries to force the matter by disconnecting them, that just shows up as a connection drop, and your perceived quality of service gets worse not better.
(Besides which, the client may bullheadedly connect to the same signal again; the router cannot really force this.)

My own network monitoring seems to bear this out, though I only have a few weeks' worth of experience with the XT8 nodes. I disabled roaming assistant about a week ago and local ping reliability seems to be better since then. If you are using the 5GHZ-2 band as dedicated backhaul, I'd definitely disable it on that band --- there isn't going to be any better signal for the upstairs node to reconnect to.

 

[Mikejd1]

This is a tip post as I was noticing my 2 ET8 AiMesh nodes would disconnect randomly from each other. Hope this helps others or comment if it did/you have any tips!

I have a setup of 2 ET8 notes and I would notice occasionally I would have the non-router node upstairs disconnecting. In the system logs I would see 'disconnected weak signal strength station'. After some reading, I realised this could be the Roaming Assistant feature which disconnects devices that are below a certain strength of connection. Rather than raising the threshold of the roaming assistant, I went to the Wifi settings on the web dashboard > Roaming block list and added the two nodes to that list.

This means that now the nodes won't forcibly disconnect themselves if there is a slight fluctuation of wireless connection for a second or two which I assume was happening.

This seems to have solved the disconnecting node issue I was having but I am surprised the firmware doesn't already deal with this scenario if there are only 2 connected nodes in the network.

Hey there. I wanted to give this a shot too but struggling to find the two nodes in the drop down list in the roaming block list menu. How did you add the nodes, I see all of my devices except the nodes. Thanks!