I have a new RT-AX86U here, taking the place of my reliable RT-AC68U for the future.
For the first few days, I have been configuring/using it with separate 2.4G and 5G SSIDs, otherwise set up close to what the RT-AC68U had. But with 160Mhz channels enabled on 5G.
An issue I have noted, is that my smartphone (AX-capable) loses the 5G connection overnight, and won't reconnect without me fiddling with the 5G radio in the RT-AX86U to get it working again -- basically have to turn off the radio and reenable it again, and it _usually_ then reconnects.
Digging a bit deeper: my setup uses an external DHCP server on my LAN. The smartphone actually does connect to the WiFi in the morning, but fails to receive the DHCP responses from the server -- the server sees the inquiries and does respond. Too strange. YazFi is also installed on the router so that my guest networks still function -- on the RT-AC68U they wouldn't get DHCP without YazFi, so I've kept the same setup here.
Early days yet, and I'm still experimenting, but posting here in case anyone else has already noted anything like this.
Current experiment is to use the unified Wifi ("Smart Connect") instead of separate SSIDs. Will see how that does tomorrow morning, I guess.
Cheers
For the first few days, I have been configuring/using it with separate 2.4G and 5G SSIDs, otherwise set up close to what the RT-AC68U had. But with 160Mhz channels enabled on 5G.
An issue I have noted, is that my smartphone (AX-capable) loses the 5G connection overnight, and won't reconnect without me fiddling with the 5G radio in the RT-AX86U to get it working again -- basically have to turn off the radio and reenable it again, and it _usually_ then reconnects.
Digging a bit deeper: my setup uses an external DHCP server on my LAN. The smartphone actually does connect to the WiFi in the morning, but fails to receive the DHCP responses from the server -- the server sees the inquiries and does respond. Too strange. YazFi is also installed on the router so that my guest networks still function -- on the RT-AC68U they wouldn't get DHCP without YazFi, so I've kept the same setup here.
Early days yet, and I'm still experimenting, but posting here in case anyone else has already noted anything like this.
Current experiment is to use the unified Wifi ("Smart Connect") instead of separate SSIDs. Will see how that does tomorrow morning, I guess.
Cheers