04-29-2025 07:35 PM
I have at our house 3 BQ16s and a BD5. All of them are connected with 10 GB Ethernet that I have high confidence in. The main router has a 2.5 GBE connection to a cable modem on its 10G WAN port, plus a connection to the main 10 GBE switch on its 10GB LAN port. The rest of the routers have a single connection from either the 10G WAN port (BQ16) or port 1 (BD5) to the 10GB switch fabric. All of the firmware is up-to-date. All of them are configured to prefer their wired uplink, but the system setting to require ethernet
1. At any moment, looking at the AIMesh page on the main router will show one or more of the AIMesh nodes as offline. This despite those nodes and the devices that are connected to them being perfectly pingable (and those conencted devices showing up under the device tab).
2. Merely viewing the AIMesh page on the main router is sufficient to cause the main router to reboot sometimes. Also, there are sometimes multiple reboots in a given day. I have attempted to run with the BD5 disconnected on the off chance that this is an issue with having a less powerful node as part of the mesh, but that doesn't seem to make a difference.
Does AIMesh just suck this bad for everyone else too?
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05-05-2025 03:39 AM
The folks at SNB did have a solution that is somewhat better than rebooting the main router.
About daily I find that the webui says that all of the nodes are offline (again, despite them working perfectly and still having connected devices that also work). When this happens, I ssh into the main router and
service restart_cfgsync
The AIMesh page of the ui will clear out, all of the mesh nodes will blink blue, but in a few seconds everything will reconnect and operate normally again for a few hours.
Now, ASUS needs to still explain why this happens, but life is way, way too short to try and get their first tier support crew of orangutans to try and understand these words.
04-29-2025 07:36 PM
"but the system setting to require ethernet" backhaul mode is turned off.
04-30-2025 03:56 AM
With all of your nodes being wired/LAN...
Can you clarify... are you "able" to turn the Ethernet Backhaul Mode on? How does it behave when doing so?
04-30-2025 05:30 AM
Enabling the Ethernet backhaul mode doesn’t make things any better.
power-cycling everything appears to be equally effective as rebooting the main router. Things will come back up and appear to work for a while and then the symptoms return.
04-30-2025 03:59 AM
One more thought... have you tried a methodical Power Cycle (rather than rebooting) of your Router & Nodes?