I bought the mesh system few weeks ago and I am not satisfied with the performance. I use it at home, two stories building. The performance in terms of speed is fine. The problem is the instability of the software and the GUI display on phone screen.
1) It takes forever to reboot and I have to do it every few days. Sometimes it doesn't reboot correctly, it remains in a limbo state, without connecting to the ISP network (I have fiber modem in bridge mode, requires PPoE connection). Never has such issues with RT-AC68U and RT-AC86U, the routers that worked in mesh mode together and were replaced by this mesh system. They worked perfectly, but the 68U being only Wifi4 was not enough for me anymore. There is no issue with the fiber modem.
2) Some reboots are successful, but the led remains RED, as if not having internet connection, the app or GUI confirming is fine, it works fine. Also, from the app I cannot turn ON/OFF the led, a sign that something is not right.
3) The initial setup was a nightmare. I even considered returning the product. It went fine and I did a reboot after everything was setup. It did not reboot. I restored to factory settings, two times, redone the whole setting up process. After these two attempts I accepted the firmware update to latest version.
4) when changing some settings, the sync between the mesh nodes takes like 5 minutes. Why?
5) my gate automation doesn't reach anymore, it's 10 meters from the router. With older routers worked just fine, the signal strength was -65÷ -72dbm, now it's like -86dbm. I do have several IoT devices, gate automation, ACs, remote controlled TP-Link outlets, some wifi connected Xiaomi appliances. For these I have a separate self defined network with a specific SSID (the same I had with the older routers, because it's a pain to enroll again all these IoT devices).
6) GUI on Android phone doesn't display correctly the whole screen. I cannot pan to the right side and some buttons are not accessible. Do something with the GUI design. Has anyone even tried the GUI on an Android phone? I don't have iOhone to try it, but I use Firefox and Chrome, the same. Old version of AsusWrt works fine on AC68-86, you broke it on this new product.
I am really dissapointed. I bought this product specifically for its hardware performance, 1GB ram, quad core processor. It seems the software needs a lot of improvements.
