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How do I create dedicated backhaul between X6S EX8000 Wireless Extender and Asus triband router?
I am trying to connect my EX8000 wireless extender to my main router, an Asus triband GT-AX11000. The default SSIDs for the two 5 MHz bands on the router are xxxxx-5G for low band, xxxxx-5G-2 for hi ...
That’s the problem. The EX8000 is Tri band, and is supposed to connect to the high band for faster backhaul as you say. But there seems to be no way to tell it the SSID of the backhaul band. If I make it the same SSID as the low band it will connect to high band, but so do my other devices. If different SSID, the extender doesn’t see it.
What firmware is on the extender?
A couple things to try?
1. remove the "-" in the name so name it ****5g2 and not ****5g-2
2. Can you disable the low band 5ghz on the asus just for setup?
Again, not at home right now but I can fire mine back up with my RAX200 and check it.
- It asks for the SSIDs of the bands to extend (but not of the high band for backhaul). I can disable low band but then it will connect to a high channel on my more remote access point, which is a dual band router with many other devices sharing it. If I disable the low band on the router and turn off the access point radio, it will only connect to hi band if has same SSID as the band I am telling it to extend. It seems to need to know the SSID and PW for the backhaul band (makes sense) but there is no way to input that info. If I trick it into connecting to hi band and then go back and change SSID it reconfigures to connect to my access point (which is definitely not stronger. It would need to know the info for the backhaul band in order to connect to it, wouldn’t it?
Firmware is latest. - I tried configuring my router and access point (also an ASUS router as AIMesh, which gives everything the same SSID, but lamely, ASUS mesh reserves the hi band for ITS backhaul even though my access point is wired and doesn’t need it- so its not available for the extender
Do you have aimesh enabled?
what firmware is on the Ex8000?
It works with your other router/ap for either high or low band 5ghz?
If so, it makes me a bit suspicious of whatever the asus has setup.
FURRYe38 don't you have an Asus ax11000? Any issues with it connecting to your EX7700 (ex7500, can't remember which triband you have)?
Main router is triband Asus GT-AX11000. I also have Asus RT-AC68U in access point mode with wired backbone - it is dual band.
Trying to get the Netgear EX8000 to use the GT-AX11000 high band as dedicated backhaul. Please read previous posts this thread for more detail.
When I go into Asus AIMesh mode between the two Asus routers, it dedicates the GT-AX11000 high band to mesh backhaul, despite the fact that I have wired backhaul and don't need it. Asus threads indicate that this is know issue.Currently, I am not in Mesh mode. Extender is connected to my dual band access point 5MHz ch 161 at 867 MBps. There are quite a few devices on the access point 5 MHz band, so not a dedicated backhaul, and slower than if it were connected to the main router hi band. Works, but not ideal. Again, see previous posts for what happens when I try to get it to connect to main router hi.
EX8000 firmware isV1.0.1.206. All firmware is latest.
Thanks!