I recently had to resolve this very problem. A year ago I had upgraded my router from a single band device to a dual band. I used the smart connect feature and everything was fine until I tried to add another smart switch to the network. I couldn't setup the smart switch because it only used the 2.4Ghz band and my smartphone was connected to the 5Ghz band. So I split the router bands with different names (keeping the 2.4 band with the original name) and restarted the router so that the new access name was present. Now both the smart switch and smartphone were on the same band and I could configure the new device. I then reconfigured my Roku and Firestick devices to the new 5Ghz access point, as well as the smartphones. Everything seems to be working well and adding these 2.4Ghz only devices isn't such a chore. Your previous videos on the topic were really helpful in understanding the architecture of these various devices. Thanks for your clear and concise explanations.

I love your video. Keep up the great work.

Great video, as usual, Thank you!

Great video. It is key to understand the router and devices and choose the right band for the device. I use MAC filtering on each band for certain devices, if a device is also capable of using either frequency band I enter them on both filtering lists.

Love your videos ❤

I love this! Your videos are so enjoyable and amazing. I had one question though I wanted to set up a system in which I could use my phone data as a fallback for my wifi by bonding both to the same ip address so that they act like speedify or a service of that kind but for free using pfsense or any other way, can you make a video on how to do that in the future, that would be super cool to know!

Hi there, it was a very useful & informative tutorial video. "Damet Garm" keep it up. thnx

Thank you! I work at a device manufacturing company your videos are very interesting and knowledgeable for me.

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Glad you liked the videos 👍

Thank you for your videos 👍

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for watching 👍

Hello Behfor - your videos are always helpful, and entertaining as well - many thanks. Should I turn off wifi at night through the wifi scheduler, to save electricity? Would be the main router (AX86U) and the two nods (AC68U). Challenge: in AP mode the wifi scheduler is available on the two AC68U. In AIMESH node mode, the wifi scheduler is not available. What are your thoughts, recommendations, please? Thanks.

Excellent videos thanks you very much. I can’t find your video where you discuss how and why you should split your mesh system into to bands 2.4 & 5. Thank you Joe

@Behfor

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, glad you liked the videos, I'm not exactly sure what video you are referring to, can you please let me know where I said I have such a video? Thanks again.

دمت گرم🍀

I’m new to this do I have to call my internet service provider to set up a router or can I set it up on my own?

thank you for this

@Behfor

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thank you.

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

The key to excelling in the 2.4ghz band is to realize, you got more channels than just 1,6, and 11. You actually can use two sets of channels in different staggered local areas... 1, 5, 9 and 3, 7, 11... with 14 as a bridge channel This gives you 7 channels to work with, not 3. In one building you use 1,5, 9... and in the neighboring building... 3, 7, 11....... and the building next to that one... 1,5,9 And channel 14 (Singapore setting) to bridge buildings 1 and 3 together. I like to do my bridges however over the 5ghz band using a 80mgz wide channel. See, the thing is, most handheld devices and indeed most devices, only support 2.5ghz. Very little user equipment supports 5ghz still, and nothing supports 6ghz. Which means 5ghz and 6ghz can mostly be used for bridging. It also explains why 2.4ghz is so terribly overcrowded in metropolitan areas, because most people have no clue how to use it and just jam up everything everywhere and step on everybody. I've been in some areas where there were 20 access points all in the 2.4ghz band on a street... when really, only 3 were needed. There is no collaboration between neighbors, it's just a nightmare freeforall making it work for.. nobody.

@Kynetguy

Ай бұрын

Except overlapping channels create performance issues. 1-6-11 are the only non-overlapping channels that are practical to use. Chan 3 and 5 overlap 1 and 6 Chan 7 and 9 overlap 6 and 11 So when you overlap, you are impacting and being impacted by everyone who uses non-overlapping channels. Best solution? Spectrum analysis, then choose.

@choppergirl

Ай бұрын

@@Kynetguy No, not true, because the farther transmitters are away, the weaker their signals become and on the fringe and the spillover fades away. You can effectively use 1, 5, and 9 in your house, while your neighbors to the left and right of you uses 3, 7, and 11... in the countryside.... with no loss of transmission speed. If I'm on Channel 5 in my house, my provimity to 5 will totally stomp over my neighbors on Chan 3 and 7 and I'll get a high SNR. But if my neighbor is on Chan 7 near him he will totally stomp over my Chan 5 but still get a high SNR as well, even if we are using them simultaneously. I know, I run a WAN blanketing the entire end of a culdesac with staggered 2.4ghz channels in this way. If you look how phone cell tower cells are done they use the exact same method which is where I got the idea. They plot out hex grids and stagger the channels so they can get away with using a small number of channels licenced to them over and over. Imagine tiling your bathroom with 6 different color tiles but you want to do it so no two same colored tiles touch. If you sort out the geometry on paper it can be done. The whole 1, 6, 11 clear channel thing has been repeated like a broken record without personal challenge by those that hear it so much so by those not in the know that its become accepted as some kind of gospel. On the other hard you also in crowded neighborhood cant just pick a random channel 1-11 and expect it to work great. A master plan with cooperation and channel staggering is required, and some would have to share their AP access while others completely shut theirs down. Whenever I enter a city like with a lot of small businesses clustered I see this kind of unplanned disaster... and every AP is locked... and the whole spectrum is useless for all almost all. Theres a lot of real signal stomping going on with packet space time sharing going on like a hub has to do... with guard times kicking in and backing off and retransmitting impacting performance.

@Kynetguy

Ай бұрын

@@choppergirl I agree with you. But when you throw out an unsupported statement about 1/5/9 to may people you run the risk of creating more problems than helping. Wireless is as much of an art as it is a science IMHO. Most people don’t have any way to analyze the spectrum around them. The solution for them is to pick a channel and turn the power up. Which as you obviously know, only exacerbates that problems with an already crowded space. Then they blast 1/5/9 in their crowded apartment building with as much power as their equipment will allow, and/or also add high gain antennae and just smash and stomp on everyone competing for signal and time slice.

@choppergirl

Ай бұрын

@@Kynetguy All you have to do is download Wifi Analyzer for your phone and walk around to map the AP's around your area. When you do that, esp. in wooded areas, you realize 100mw does not travel far if it does not have line of sight. However, if you can get line of sight, you can make bridges with it that go quite far even with omnidirectional antennas... up to 150 yards even with omnis. Anything that contains moisture or metal... wood, leaves, roofs, etc will absorb or reflect it. The mantra to only use 1,6, 11 as clear channels is like bad advice repeated like how a mocking bird repeats a song without thinking about it. Bad advice spreads, is repeated by little sneezers, until it becomes gospel, and unquestioned. Another point of bad advice is to password protect your wifi AP... this is overwhelmingly bad advice. Why? You jam up the spectrum with AP's that nobody but you can use. Across the world now there are millions of AP's blanketing us with WIFI coverage, but any traveler to anywhere can't use them for shlt to check their email or send a text message because they are all locked down. I've run all my AP's for decades with no password with no problems. Anything sketchy anyone might do on my AP, I've done 100x more sketchy myself on the dark web LOL and nothing has come of it. The Helium network and Comcast with their free AP Hotspot acces with a login running on every Comcast users AP tried to solve this and failed mostly. So yeah, use all the channels if you are know what you are doing as an amateur wifi engineer, and do away with wifi passwords completely. You don't have a password on your garden hose out in your yard and anybody could come up and use it for free and even leave it running and cost you money, but so what. Nobody puts a lock on their garden hose, their bathrooms, or their refrigerators... and few on their mailboxes so... yeah... make things work first and foremost, and to do that, get rid of the anal paranoid security... wifi passwords are universally bad. I know my advice is against conventional belief, and I'm fine with that. You got to stand against the ocean of st00pldity out there sometimes. An ocean of people still think chocolate milk comes from brown cows...

@choppergirl

Ай бұрын

@@Kynetguy I've unlocked and even used channels 12, 13, and 14 for wifi bridges between AP's. They aren't terribly useful otherwise, in the states, because US set client devices won't recognize them. But there's some free extra bandwidth for you right there on 2.4ghz that is most of the time wide open free, even in the most congested areas, if you can set your client device to Signapore to be able to use 12, 13, and 14. Otherwise, jump to 5ghz or 6ghz, or even 900mhz if your AP supports it. Even though it's not the best frequency for it, I run all my long distance bridges on the 5ghz band (N or AC), because few client devices even in 2024 support them, and then max out the 2.4ghz band coverage for connecting clients (smart phones, laptops, the like). Sadly, 2.4ghz is still what every device wants to use... (G or N).

If you had the choice between using an Asus RT-AC88U and an Asus RT-AX55, which one would you use?

İ was close to buy the new Tp link deco XE200 but learn we can choose only 1 band to connect. My home air conditioner can only connect in 2.4 ghz band. That's why I'm so undecided.

Do u do consulting. I’m hving issues with my wifi at home

Thank you very much for your videos. Following you for a long time and you helped me a lot.

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I really appreciate your support and kind words. 😊👍

Great thumbnail, I like your videos but clicked this one specifically because it had my router on it 😭 Btw, I have an RT-AX82U and was thinking about adding an RT-AX55, do you think it’ll be alright? My router used to say it had aimesh2.0 but it seems like Asus is not using that branding anymore and just calling everything just “aimesh” so I’m a little confused 😿

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

Hi there, thanks for sharing! Yes as long as both routers support AiMesh (which in your case they do) you should be fine, just keep in mind since both routers are dual-band, for the best performance it is recommended to use a wired backhaul. PS the ax82u looks really cool 😎👍

Hi sir, do you have any tutorials on how to remotely access asus router outside the network? I need to have an access to my home network whenever I am away. Thank you.

@olamalmstrom1897

Жыл бұрын

Start an OpenVPN server on your router. Then you can access your router (and all other devices as well) on your home network through an OpenVPN client on your portable device, be it an iPad, a PC or a phone. This way, you can keep the router closed to internet since your OpenVPN client will be on an extension of your home network.

The local fiber internet provider here says I should have a router with a 2.5 ghz wan port. Is that the same as 5 ghz (5 being short for 2.5?) Or did they mean 2.4?

@Behfor

2 ай бұрын

They probably told you, you should have a router with 2.5 Gbps wan port. That is for wired connection and has nothing to do with your wifi (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz). The older routers had 1 Gbps wan port but newer ones have 2.5 Gbps or higher. So I can guess because your fiber Internet connection is faster than 1 Gbps, your provider wants to make sure your router's wan port/internet port is faster than 1gbps. Hope that makes sense.

I am currently on verizon 5g home plus...Wnc-cr200a modem and ce1000a extender...I get 350 down and 25 up but I have the smart integration turned on..if I disable it and use separate channels is it possible i could see an increase in my down and up speeds or no??

@Behfor

2 ай бұрын

First you should see if the bottleneck is your Internet connection or your local WiFi, then troubleshoot that.

Behfor you should do a professional setup of a asus router for 2024 this would help a lot of people I think especially me thanks.

@Behfor

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion 👍

Do you know what bands are the 6GHZ And 5 if not. No problem... thank you

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

This Wikipedia page has the information you need, thanks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

@sbrown9020

Жыл бұрын

@@Behfor appreciate your help 🙏🏾 much respect

Hey quick question I have the nighthawk that has 6ghz but I can't activate it through the router settings

@Behfor

28 күн бұрын

What do you mean you can't activate it! Elaborate please!

@Buzeriq

15 күн бұрын

@@BehforI think he trying to say he trying to use 6ghz but doesn’t give an option to use it

Can someone tell me why I cant get the 6Ghz frequency on my Device (The DeVICE SUPPORTS the frequency and the WiFi 6e signal) on my Wifi 6 Modem router? My provider assured me that they do have the Wi Fi 6, yet I cant get the 6Ghz band for some reason. I get an amazing speed.... on WiFi, well over 100Mbs, but the latency is awful from 60 to 75 ms. I just do not get it. Does the modem needs to be Wifi6e or a router needs to be Wifi6e or do I need to get a hybrid Modem Router with wifi 6e???? OR (And that is probably a close to the truth) Do I just need to switch my providers ?

@Behfor

8 ай бұрын

Wifi 6 does not have the 6 GHz band only Wifi 6e (and Wifi 7)

1:55 Also, 2.4 GHz is used by a microwave.

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

That's true, thanks!

6G wow

We have rental internet

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

Not sure what rental internet is, do you mean renting the modem/router?

@austinpeterson2562

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@Behfor

Жыл бұрын

That's good, if it is wifi 6e that means it has 3 bands otherwise it probably has 2 bands.

@austinpeterson2562

Жыл бұрын

Yes