I needed to calm down, rest and return to add facts after wasting many hours on Asus AiMesh.
My first post was merely a warning sign to others that Asus AiMesh is unusable garbage in its current incarnation.
First, I have significant experience in WiFi and RF and have years of real world actual experience building complex WiFi solutions including mission critical voice applications.
Second, I am generally a fan of Asus gear for home WiFi and as such, had no issues dropping $740 on four (4) units of:
Asus RT-AX92U AX6100 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6 Mesh Router with 802.11Ax
to update my home with some new tech 802.11AX love
The short summary:
- The units were a pain in the butt to get into "mesh" mode - Carrying each unit near the master to link it is not a good method
- After "AiMesh" mode:
a.) The various clients around my house got extremely slow throughput if they could transfer at all (11MBs on clients usually getting 300MBs+ on WiFi)
b.) In some cases clients were no longer able to even use the WiFi for more than a few minutes
c.) On 2.4Ghz all the units all used the same frequency / channel at the same time, like all units on channel 6 instead of spreading out like say 1, 4, 7, 11
d.) Using the wired back haul preference randomly used the gig link at times and seemingly did whatever the hell it wanted (sometimes nothing at all)
I am not here to plead my case of ask for help.
I am here to warn others that
Asus AiMesh is unusable garbage in its current state as of January 2020 period.