Today I finally fixed my wifi coverage issues but I don't know what I did :-(

[johnw100]

So have had an Asus rt-ax86u router for a year after I had enough of our virgin broadbands poor router. it was an improvement but never got to all the house, a couple of brick walls and the signal was down to 1 bar (of 3). Its a 5 bed , 3 story house and the routers are on the front ground floor.

I purchased quite a few mesh systems over the year to try. but nothing worked well. this week I tried again , this time with the Asus rt-ax96u 2 mesh pods. was better but not great and family were complaining of losing wifi occasionally.
Yesterday we lost our wifi again and I didn't realise it was a general internet outage in the area. so I tinkered around with settings on the Asus until I realised the main providers router (modem) was flashing red. When it all came back and after turning off power a few times. I thought everything was ok but then my wife was on a work call the next day and it kept dropping out. I could also see my network switch was red-light flashing to show a loop detection.
So I disconnected the mesh pods from the power, last one was upstairs and my wifi was still on maximum strength. My rt-ax92u had suddenly become a powerful beast and I had a decent signal throughout the home. I had to go around and check id turned off the mesh pods.

but! I have no idea what I could've changed to fix it. so I'm considering returning the mesh pods and sticking with my router. The only idea I do have is that multi user MMO was disabled. I enabled that.
And also changed the Channel manually for the two wifi signals.

Any Ideas? Thanks

 

[snadge]

better channels thus less interference from neighbours?
a different more powerful router? (two models are mentioned AX86 and AX92)
and MU-MIMO helps with allowing multiple devices to have communication to the Router in unison, rather than one by one at 'very fast' speeds

you should look to move your Router up on the first floor, central to the house to get an even connection throughout, this can be done by extending your NTE Socket and Twisted Pair cable to the first floor, using extra TP telephone cable and a joint clamp (to attach your new TP telephone cable too - do NOT use phone line extensions as they are not Twisted Pair and will very likely ruin your connection) ...and setting up the router there, if you need LAN cables downstairs use Powerline Adapters, these use your internal electrical wiring to send your data across to a 2nd Powerline Adapter somewhere else in the house, they plug into your power sockets and usually have a 'pass-through' allowing you to still use the power on the socket for other things.

Try to use LAN as much as possible, wifi only where LAN cable isnt possible - such as mobiles devices