General 5g wifi settings on AX wrt

[anotherengineer]

Good day. I could use some feedback on 5g settings. I’ve never really used it before due to amount of walls in the place but I got a new AX86u so may as well use it. I’m mainly looking for compatibility, stability, reliability.
This is what I have currently, basically defaults. Location North America.

 

[OzarkEdge]

Good day. I could use some feedback on 5g settings. I’ve never really used it before due to amount of walls in the place but I got a new AX86u so may as well use it. I’m mainly looking for compatibility, stability, reliability.
This is what I have currently, basically defaults. Location North America.

I use the few non-default settings noted in my install notes.

OE

 

[drinkingbird]

Good day. I could use some feedback on 5g settings. I’ve never really used it before due to amount of walls in the place but I got a new AX86u so may as well use it. I’m mainly looking for compatibility, stability, reliability.
This is what I have currently, basically defaults. Location North America.

Enable AX beamforming (not universal). You can leave the TX power at max, granted your clients may not have enough power to get back to the router at extended distances but that is what the roaming assistant can help with. I can't see what you have it set to, I think -70 which is usually good, if you want it to be more aggressive at disconnecting clients try -60.

I usually disable TX bursting as that is only supported by certain wifi clients and there are some that it can cause problems with (though that is probably mostly resolved recently). Still, it is fairly useless.

You can try enabling MU-MIMO, most find it doesn't do much, but it also typically doesn't hurt anything. It theoretically can help when you have more than 1 client using a lot of bandwidth.

You can enable AX/Wifi 6 - if you don't have any AX devices it shouldn't hurt and if you do it will give them better throughput and make more bandwidth available.

Rest looks ok to me.

 

[Jbennett360]

So universal beamforming should be set to off on both 2.4/5?

I believe mines enabled at the minute

 

[drinkingbird]

So universal beamforming should be set to off on both 2.4/5?

I believe mines enabled at the minute

Yeah turn it off, it usually does more harm than good.

 

[bbunge]

I use the default settings except for setting 2.4 GHz to 20 MHz, disabling WPS and using DFS channels.

 

[Tech9]

This is what I have currently, basically defaults. Location North America.

I have posted fail-safe and IoT friendly settings here:

AX86U Check my settings please

Can anyone chime in on these settings AX86U Merlin 388.1_0

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Location and router version the same as yours - Canada. Use channels 149-161 in Canada - up to 1W allowed.

 

[anotherengineer]

Thanks for all the feedback!!

Now onto optimizing LAN/WAN and the rest of it.......................

 

[Tech9]

There is nothing much to optimize in WAN/LAN.

 

[anotherengineer]

There is nothing much to optimize in WAN/LAN.

True. Just put in a dns and a few minor things.

 

[Tech9]

Here is example with OpenDNS with DoT:

This is Asuswrt-Merlin 388.2, but it's the same in Asuswrt 388_22525.

 

[anotherengineer]

Here is example with OpenDNS with DoT:

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This is Asuswrt-Merlin 388.2, but it's the same in Asuswrt 388_22525.

Thanks for the help. I’ve read to leave spanning tree enabled with my setup. I’ve also read about starting ip range at .9 so there is a few spare addresses for static ips, however the printer and nas and AP point seem to keep static on their own.
Here is a free hand on a small envelope….I think I should get a ruler. Also I have traditionally used open dns and been happy with it. Just wondering if anyone uses CIRA? I think merlin said at one time it was good?

 

[Tech9]

I’ve also read about starting ip range at .9 so there is a few spare addresses

This is someone's personal view on things. You can have your static IPs inside DHCP range in Asuswrt. You can reserve IPs for your devices if you want to. This router can take 128 reservations with no NVRAM issues. Save/restore methods exist for both Asuswrt and Asuswrt-Merlin.

Just wondering if anyone uses CIRA?

I don't use or recommend organizations with unclear funding and with CEO involved in pornography scandal at one point. I don't care how good or bad the service is. They couldn't filter the management and would care to filter my Internet? No thanks, there are other options around.