Quick sanity check - mesh systems

CapitalOne · 10 Mar 2018 at 09:31

Hi all

I currently have an Asus 3200RT at one end of the house and an NT66RU or the like at the other end, cat 6 between the 2 and the 3200 in full router mode connected to the BT Infinity modem and the 66 just in AP mode. If i invest in a mesh system (love my toys) would I just switch off wireless on the 3200 and cat 6 in a mesh device as the wifi and then place the other 2 mesh boxes anywhere with just power, same SSID and all done? It’s a fairly big place so would go for 3 nodes to include garden coverage. I have about 60 devices to connect to including Sonos, Hue, Nest etc as well as PC’s tablets etc. Looking for advice on if this will work (which I’m sure it will) and any potential gotchas.

Many thanks in advance!

CapitalOne · 10 Mar 2018 at 10:02

Its only between the 2 Asus routers, i.e. a single cable and most devices are wireless only. Thanks for the reply.

CapitalOne · 11 Mar 2018 at 04:59

Anyone?

CapitalOne · 11 Mar 2018 at 09:32

Thanks for the reply. Not really having issues, speeds are full almost everywhere, I’m just after a tinker about really - it’s a disease.

CapitalOne · 11 Mar 2018 at 10:12

andy_mk3 said:
Definitely sounds like a job for a couple of Ubiquiti Ap's.

Thanks, I hadn’t got to models yet. I thought Ubiquiti was a bit of a faff (poe etc), happy to be wrong. I want to simply plug the “master” mesh box into my Asus 3200 (as I’m using the 4g failover on it), set up the SSID the same, turn off wifi on the asus and then stick the other 2 mesh “slave” boxes whereever, with just power. Am I doing it right?

CapitalOne · 17 Mar 2018 at 09:35

Marvt74 said:
I've just sent you a trust, but i'd go with the Asus mesh, rather than one of the other options. That way you can have them all as part of the same mesh system.

Thanks Marv, interesting and thanks for pointing out AIMesh. I checked and neither of my routers support it at the moment, so I took the plunge and bought a new one that does. Interesting turn of events though, about midnight last night I noticed my Netatmo wasn’t connecting anymore, so I fire up the ipad and go to the admin page which was now all in Thai! (my guess). Did a factory reset, and checked firmware updates of which there was one (but no flashing icon as normal) so flashed it (chnaged dns to google just in case, changed password, changed https port) and now it’s all fine again. I can only assume my rt3200 somehow got comprimised, it certainly wasn’t me. So the luck of me buying one of the new asus router ps (ac86u) with built in trend (who knows if this is any good) might just be timely, if amazon can deliver through the snow (which I also blame on any hackers)!

ETA good people, I’d recommend checking your asus router admin page just in case this is not just a one off.