Don't buy a wifi6 router without a good portion of beneficial features. Lesson learned!
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So now its's pretty apparent we are not going to get any significant features added this year. (Why, it's 2020!) By the time we do I probably would have moved on to a wifi6e router. Yeah unnecessary, but at least when I buy a new product it will have the current features of the time. Lesson learned!
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@Mike-P Very good advice!
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@Mike-P
802.11ax is still in its infancy. It hasn't been around for too long... You could've purchased a tried/tested WiFi 5 router and saved yourself this headache. These gripes you have are the price you pay for being on the cutting edge of technology. No technology is perfect, and time and effort is required to make everything play together nicely. There are industry standards yes, but devices aren't made to interface with everything people have in their homes these days... If you aren't satisfied with the product and feel the ball has been dropped on features and such, maybe give it another 12 months or so and try it again!TL;DR - I'm sorry your experience has been poor, but no-one has a gun to your head. There are way too many variables in home LANs for 1 product to be the perfect system for everyone in the world.
Cheers!
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@Anthony_014 It has been around long enough, and about to progress to the next evolution. The problem is Amplifi chose to deploy it in an unconventional way, which was probably not the best. But thanks for your insight.
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@Mike-P
I certainly understand where you're coming from. It would of been nice to have a tried/true/tested device upon release for sure!I wish you the best, friend!
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@Anthony_014 I'm still hanging in, have not given up yet. By the way, I have tested and can achieve the speeds you are getting but only with a few connected devices. When adding my entire network forget it. I'm running around 45 wireless devices and 10 wired devices.
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@Mike-P
Huh... That's interesting.I know it's likely not 100% accurate, but what does your CPU and memory usage look like with that many devices connected?
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@Anthony_014 Only 5%, they are not all moving a lot of data at the same time, plus it is spread across two units. I have three but only like a couple of things usually connect to it, so I don't have it connected. I hate to see so many ssids all over the place when I look at a signal map.
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@Mike-P
I certainly get that, and agree. No point in over-saturating your wireless environment any more than you need to.Do you have your main Alien in router or Bridge mode?
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@Anthony_014 Router. I can connect direct to my ISP fios ONT without a router in the way.
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@Mike-P
Gotcha. Have you tried bridge mode and letting your ONT handle your routing/DHCP? I get it's probably got less horsepower FOR routing... But just brainstorming things you could try out to help!
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@Anthony_014 the ont is not a router it only coverts the fiber to ethernet
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@Mike-P
Ahhh. Okay, I misunderstood your previous post.I took your "I can connect direct to my ISP fios ONT without a router in the way." as: It has routing capability.
lolSo it's not even really a legit ONT, it's just a glorified media converter.
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@Anthony_014 Optical Network Terminal yeah I guess you can look at it like that. When routers get an optical wan port, it won't be needed.
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@Mike-P
You need this... https://www.ui.com/edgemax/edgerouter-4/ Have you considered this route? (no puns intended)Then you could run your Alien in bridge mode behind it and just have it handle WiFi.
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@Anthony_014 I have that same model. But I would like to think the Alien should be able to handle the job, but I'm sure I would get better performance, but I'm not going to give the Alien a pass.
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@Mike-P
Well shucks.I agree with you for sure. It's got enough power in it that it shouldn't be your bottleneck.
Can you explain to me exactly the issue you are having? I kinda just jumped into your thread here without asking that.
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@Anthony_014 I generally only get speeds of around the 300 range wirelessly with wifi6 devices. I have 980 or so, up and down.
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@unseenone With all do respect I stopped reading when I got to the part where you moved all ax devices to the additional 5g radio. If you know anything about the Alien, you know that the additional 5g radio is wifi5 only. You can connect a ax(wifi6) device to that radio but you will get no wifi6 speeds or features by doing this. There is alo no point in setting all the additional ssid's to the same name as if you just use a single ssid when setting up the router you are doing the same thing. Also the speed test you are showing is the speed test Between the Alien and the isp, not the speed the individual devices are getting.
