Asus RT-AC5300 best Wireless Settings

[raion969]

Hello

What Wireless settings do you guys use and what would you recommend?

 

[Tech9]

What isn't working as expected and what are you trying to fix?
There is no universal best settings, mostly unique Wi-Fi environment specific, see general recommendations below.

To make Wi-Fi more consistent and avoid device re-connections stop eventual ACS channel hunting and bandwidth switching:
Select fixed 2.4GHz Ch.1 at 20MHz, 5GHz-1 Ch.36 at 80MHz, 5GHz-2 whatever currently works well at 80MHz. This will stop ACS log messages as well.

To make 2.4GHz radio more compatible to larger number of IoT devices disable all Beamforming, MU-MIMO, WMM APSD, set modulation to 802.11n in Professional. If you have no G clients you can select N only in General. If everything is working fine as it is - just fix the channel and channel bandwidth.

On 5GHz radios modulation above 802.11ac is non-standard, Broadcom specific, very few devices support it. WMM APSD is largely ignored by modern mobile devices with built-in power saving. Universal Beamforming is also non-standard Broadcom feature, may create stability issues with some clients.

The rest of your settings look fine, no need to change.

 

[bbunge]

Your best WIFI settings are the defaults. Including the use of Dual Band SmartConnect. You should not assume you or others know more than the engineers who designed the router.
Changing other than channel and bandwidth can make things worse...

 

[Tech9]

Your best WIFI settings are the defaults. Including the use of Dual Band SmartConnect.

Your advice doesn't work well in Europe to begin with. Default settings are far from the best and Smart Connect plus Auto channel jumping in 2x DFS regions with different power limits is a disaster. When you see "including channels 12, 13" in WebGUI options this router is clearly very different than yours in North America and is working in very different Wi-Fi environment. Your experience doesn't apply. Some say details are important.

the engineers

The engineers above copy/paste invented Explicit Beamforming and MU-MIMO on 2.4GHz band up to 802.11n... forgot to invent clients for it.

 

[bbunge]

Your advice doesn't work well in Europe to begin with. Default settings are far from the best and Smart Connect plus Auto channel jumping in 2x DFS regions with different power limits is a disaster. When you see "including channels 12, 13" in WebGUI options this router is clearly very different than yours in North America and is working in very different Wi-Fi environment. Your experience doesn't apply. Some say details are important.



The engineers above copy/paste invented Explicit Beamforming and MU-MIMO on 2.4GHz band up to 802.11n... forgot to invent clients for it.

We are all entitled to our opinion. I was expressing mine ...

 

[Tech9]

Appreciate it, but something you may want to know - default settings in Europe may create unable to connect conditions. Comes from personal experience. Not all the clients see Ch.12,13 or 52,100 for example. Sometimes ACS just cuts you off. It's different environment and different planning and troubleshooting is needed. I would say here in North America (especially in the US) things are much easier. Applies for clients too. Here the clients are mostly local version, in Europe you may see clients purchased from different regions. Folks in Europe travel more and bring Wi-Fi things home.