The issues with AiMesh

[KeithLa]

My echo dot does not find my 5 ghz wifi network, only if I change a wifi setting on the router and the wifi channels change for a sec my echo dot sees the 5 Ghz and can connect.

Try moving the Dot further from the wireless router, which seems counterintuitive, but some client devices need more moderate RSSI for some reason an RF engineer may be able to explain.

Roaming Assistant also did not seem to help transition my phone across my AiMesh nodes, though I was seeing RA entries in the syslog.

 

[Mazzel]

Try moving the Dot further from the wireless router, which seems counterintuitive, but some client devices need more moderate RSSI for some reason an RF engineer may be able to explain.

Roaming Assistant also did not seem to help transition my phone across my AiMesh nodes, though I was seeing RA entries in the syslog.

Did you try to lower the TX power from eg. Performance to Good or Balance to minimize the overlap between router and notes ? What I find rather strange is that all my devices that are mobile seem to work rather fine but the speakers change frequently from node to router, and without disabling airtime fairness ( both bands ) multiroom did not work at all. This latter is common known in case of AImesh and eg Bose or Sonos.

 

[GovtCheese]

From that article:

"If clients don’t support 802.11r, they may fail to connect to Deco. When the Fast Roaming feature is enabled in the Deco app, the wireless Beacon frames broadcast by Deco will carry 802.11r related information. Some clients can’t recognize this information and drop this Beacon frame, leading to connection failure."

This may suggest why Asus has chosen to not yet support 802.11r. It may be better to connect more slowly without 802.11r, than to not connect at all with it on the router only.

Apologies as this post is multiple years old, but since it was difficult for me to find out the reason, this is added for posterity. In case anyone else is trying to find any rationale concerning AiMesh's lack of support for IEEE 802.11r...

From ASUS ZenWiFi XD4 Mesh WiFi Review:

Sadly, the 802.11r fast roaming standard is not supported on AiMesh. This means that the roaming experience wouldn’t be as good as a mesh WiFi system that supported it. However, ASUS told us that the feature is not included in order to support the latest WPA3 security protocol. The latest WPA3 standard does not include support for 802.11r fast transition.