Sonderskov1980
New Around Here
Hi
I have just purchased 2 x ASUS RT-AC68U for creating a large wireless network in a house that simply kills wifi signals at short distances.
Therefore my intention is to use 1 AC68U as main Wifi router and 1 AC68U as an access point and have a LAN cable run between them.
I have set it up yesterday as follows:
Main router: IP: 192.168.1.1 as it was from factory
And I hope I have set the DHCP range to run from 192.168.1.3 and up to the limit of 192.168.1.254 or something like that.
put in a static IP reserved to the Access point router and added the MAC address of the access point also
SSID - 2.4: test
SSID - 5: test_5GHZ
Access point router: Ip changed to 192.168.1.2
selected mode Access point on router
SSID - 2.4: test
SSID - 5: test_5GHZ
For both router and access point I have selected appropriate different channels found by using wifi analyzer on my mobile phone and updated both to newest firmware from ASUS.
NOW to my issued and questions
I have just purchased 2 x ASUS RT-AC68U for creating a large wireless network in a house that simply kills wifi signals at short distances.
Therefore my intention is to use 1 AC68U as main Wifi router and 1 AC68U as an access point and have a LAN cable run between them.
I have set it up yesterday as follows:
Main router: IP: 192.168.1.1 as it was from factory
And I hope I have set the DHCP range to run from 192.168.1.3 and up to the limit of 192.168.1.254 or something like that.
put in a static IP reserved to the Access point router and added the MAC address of the access point also
SSID - 2.4: test
SSID - 5: test_5GHZ
Access point router: Ip changed to 192.168.1.2
selected mode Access point on router
SSID - 2.4: test
SSID - 5: test_5GHZ
For both router and access point I have selected appropriate different channels found by using wifi analyzer on my mobile phone and updated both to newest firmware from ASUS.
NOW to my issued and questions
- The AC68U has many safety options and all sort of features. However if my main concern is performance and of course also ensure the wifi is safe what should I precisely set on as features on the router and what is not necessary??
- Will the using of same SSID both for the router and access point give me issues when moving through the house or should I select different SSID to ensure that I know which router I am on and also ensure stability??
- After I selected the Access point option on my second router It was as if I could no longer go into the GUI on the Access point any more. I have thought a little about it and hope somebody in here can give me explicit instructions as to how I manually instead can configure the router to act as a access point but still can connect to the router acting as an access point and look at traffic etc. But please make the instructions explicit and detailed. The LAN ports on the access point need to be working when I am done.
- After I have set the system up it ran quite good for an hour but then suddenly all connections are lost and even my computer hardwired to the AC-68U acting as the router was disconnected from the internet and even thought the wifi SSID could be seen when scanning for network, none of them could be logged onto. I therefore shut down both router and access point and turned them on again and the system worked again for an hour when the same thing happened again. Am I having a firmware issue or what is going on?