Optimizing wireless settings of RT-AC66U with ASUSWRT-Merlin 380.59

[kevindd992002]

Yes

Is this true for both bands?

 

[bodean]

Is this true for both bands?

Lets look at the logic here...... I am not sure if you fully understand what the setting does.
There would be ZERO reason to even enable this setting on 2.4ghz. On 5.0ghz, you are saying, if my signal on 5ghz goes above 70, then

Is this true for both bands?

Lets look at the logic here...... I am not sure if you fully understand what the setting does.
There would be ZERO reason to even enable this setting on 2.4ghz. On 5.0ghz, you are saying, if my signal on 5ghz goes above 70, then switch me over to 2.4ghz. There would be no point to enable it on 2.4ghz band. If you aren't getting a strong 2.4 signal, there's no way in #*$& you would be getting a strong 5.0ghz signal, as the range is much less.

 

[kevindd992002]

Lets look at the logic here...... I am not sure if you fully understand what the setting does. There would be ZERO reason to even enable this setting on 2.4ghz. On 5.0ghz, you are saying, if my signal on 5ghz goes above 70, then switch me over to 2.4ghz. There would be no point to enable it on 2.4ghz band. If you aren't getting a strong 2.4 signal, there's no way in #*$& you would be getting a strong 5.0ghz signal, as the range is much less.

I understand it, yes. But I was just wondering what the best value is. I also forgot to mention (my bad) that I have another 2.4GHz secondary access point on another section of my house and this is where turning the 2.4 GHz roaming assistant feature will be useful.

Now if let's say on this primary router/AP, a client's 5GHz signal goes above 70 (weaker signal) and then switches to 2.4GHz will it go back to the 5GHz signal if it goes nearer to the AP and its 5GHz signal goes below 70 (stronger signal) again?

 

[kevindd992002]

BUMP! Anyone?

 

[RMerlin]

This is specific to the client, and will change depending on the OS, the driver, etc... The router has no control over what a client decides to do if a stronger signal becomes available.

 

[kevindd992002]

Ok. Thanks.

When you set the control channel to 36 for the 5GHz band, why can't you select above or below? Mine is stuck at Auto for the 5GHz band but I can select the options for the 2.4GHz band.

 

[kevindd992002]

Like I said in my posts above, I have a secondary 2.4GHz access point on another section of my house and this is where turning the 2.4 GHz roaming assistant feature will be useful. So what I did was to enable roaming assistant for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz for my primary AP (the one w/ Merlin's firmware) and I noticed that clients that are far from the primary AP (weaker signal, above 70 for th 2.4GHz) AND the secondary AP are bouncing on and off from the 2.4GHz and 5GHz band of the primary access point and hence the problem. They seem to not get a stable connection as the primary access point itself disconnects them from both bands. Does that make sense?

I'm sure turning off roaming assistant for the 2.4GHz band of the primary AP will solve this as it will just disconnect the clients from the 5GHz band and keep them connected to the 2.4GHz band but then I lose the advantage of enabling the 2.4GHz roaming assistant which is recommended to be enabled when you have another 2.4GHz router in the vicinity.

What are your ideas?

 

[kevindd992002]

BUMP!

 

[joegreat]

BUMP!

To many BUMPs for answering!

We all are volunteering our time to support users in this form - bumping is very rude and does not give you answers faster!

 

[kevindd992002]

I''m sorry, I didn't know bumping a thread is rude here. I'm used to other forums wherein bumping is allowed if there are no answers to a thread for more than 24 hours.

I'm curious though. If you don't bump an old thread that has no answers, how will it get noticed by anyone in this forum?

 

[ColinTaylor]

I'm curious though. If you don't bump an old thread that has no answers, how will it get noticed by anyone in this forum?

As you can see from your previous posts, you will usually get some responses in less than 24 hours. That is because this forum has a relatively small number of posts per day unlike some others.

If you don't get a response after a few days it doesn't mean your post hasn't been seen, it has. It just means that nobody has anything useful to say.

 

[sbailey4]

I''m sorry, I didn't know bumping a thread is rude here. I'm used to other forums wherein bumping is allowed if there are no answers to a thread for more than 24 hours.

I'm curious though. If you don't bump an old thread that has no answers, how will it get noticed by anyone in this forum?

Add additional information or a new post. It will show it up in the main list as something new so someone will most likely check it out. However if there are no answers...well maybe no one has an answer

 

[kevindd992002]

Ok, gotcha. Thanks guys!