ASUS GT1030-SL-2G-BRK GeForce GT 1030 2 GB GDDR5 64 bit 1920 x 1200 pixels PCI Express 3.0
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Rating: 5
Review: I was planning to follow the reviews here with using the app to pair install but due to wanting a black one for the lounge and a white one for the office they didn't arrive together... worse than that the white one was lost in the Amazon internal shipping process twice. Third time lucky. Hint tick the box to get the parcel wrapped although can't see that on the app. The one coming in from Barcelona to the UK kept getting lost. When it did arrive it's address sticker was on a cellophane wrapper of the box stuck on. It had fell off. Waited two weeks for the second one. Thus set up the first one in the meantime so didn't pair out of the box. The trip point on why the 5 ghz backhaul isn't used is on the Asus page Google asus support FAQ 1012132 If you have set up the hub with smart connect set off, you have to set it back on with Smart Connect Dual-Band Smart Connect (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) and Band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. Save etc. You do the pairing as per the instructions but toggle the Smart Connect to on if you have turned it off in the meantime by separating the bands. That triggers the backhaul on the 5ghz-2 band if you dont do that the backhaul wont be enabled on the 5ghz-2 band, backhaul may use the 2.4ghz band. That's what happened to me, said the signal was weak and was using the 2.4ghz band for backhaul. Didn't make sense to me says it was showing 800+ on the 5ghz band connection speed on the old router on line of site through a thin wall, across the landing and lounge - the two position points. Toggling changed this to "good" on the aimesh network app map shows this (green line). Bit of classic screwy programming telling you the connection was weak when it wasn't connected correctly. You can then change enable smart connect to off thereafter if you want to customise the 2.4Ghz channels. Use 20mhz band with for a upnp renderer so switched this back to off. Kept the SSIDs on the 2.4ghz and 5ghz-1 band as the same. Turned off the broadcast SSID of the 5ghz-2 so it's invisible... but you don't need to do that. It is the backhaul band since it moans if you try to rename it to the same as 2.4ghz / 5 ghz-1 telling you the backhaul band must have a different name. Bit more reading you can also use the backhaul band as well on devices other than backhaul (needs to be enable above as 160mhz when configured above to max out). Reckon best not to use it for devices just keep that for backhaul if you arrnt using wired ethernet to connect the mesh, which is why I hid the SSID. Any wifi 6 devices you could use on that I guess as the lower 5ghz band could get crowed but if you haven't got any, not an issue. I also enabled WiFi agile on the 2.4 GHz band. Asus says it works better on your modern internet devices quickly switching nodes. Internet of things devices. Thought this might be better on the Humax eye camera, boiler heater switch and Airstream upnp renderers. I had been watching via the app whether they had been connecting to the logical closest node. Seems about right now. I didn't tune up the switching parameters on RSSI left those as predefined. Just WiFi agile as described, the smart toggle as described else the backhaul wont connect on the 5ghz-2 channel if you are manually pairing the Mesh routers and using wireless backhaul. I tend to pick my own WiFi channels using InSSIDer rather than use the auto feature. Take up squatter rights on 1, 6 or 11 on the lower bandwidth. Ditto on 5ghz-1. Signal isn't propagated so far so isn't an issue. Left the backhaul band 5ghz-2 on auto select. My 5 ghz tablet I take to bed faithfully changes nodes between the upstairs lounge node and the office hub which serves the bedroom side of the house. The upstairs lounge node serves the downstairs kitchen and dining room. Open balcony affair with a wrap around upstairs lounge, antrim dining room / sun room. Upstairs office hub serves the five bedrooms (Office one) on two floors. Utility room gets the signal from the lounge mostly. So the house divides into two discrete areas. The backhaul 5 ghz top band linking through the office wall across the landing across the lounge to the node. No way you could install Ethernet cable into the office from the lounge without it showing. Had been using power line adaptors for this link and others but too problematic having pinned the issue down to ripples in the power. Get the BT Ethernet internet from the Smarthub2 on the lower floor just below via one BT black disc bought from Amazon into the Asus hub in the office. The BT disc ethernet port at the back is cabled into the Asus hub (both sit on top of a tall Ikea office unit). It was that using a powerline adaptors throu the house wiring that was causing grief with my old Asus tri band 3200 and TP link setup to the office. Basically power line adaptors turned out to be unreliable in the house with frequent glitches, mesh and wireless is better. All is good now. Think this is where people have issues where they can't get the backhaul working correctly since its not enabled when they add an aimesh to an existing configured hub. The Asus FAQ above "[Wireless] How to configure the Smart Connect on ASUSWRT?" is the key. Wonky programming.... best described as a feature. So you got to configure that correctly if you manually add a mesh unit unit rather than the two pair out of the box purchase and set up. Think this is why the reviews split into good and bad. The bad reviews trip on getting the backhaul to work correctly since they have manually configured and not stumbled over the secret that they need to toggle smart connect on during the pairing of the Mesh, as per the FAQ referenced for exact parameters, the unit is listed in that FAQ. The good reviews are either not using wireless backhaul or purchased two units together and used the automatic pairing. Useful tools obviously inSSIDer and Fast.com app. Footnote. On use for a month had one instance where the backhaul was triggered to orange on the app rather than green. The original issue. Needed the node switched on and off cleared it. Software reboot didn't. Two months in all very stable and reliable. Did an over the air firmware update on both nodes in situ, all ok. Did the original one out of the box on both units before pairing. Originally due to the second unit getting lost in the post configured the white unit destined for the office as the hub. Backed that up. Restored that on the black unit and did a factory reset on the white one, then did the pairing. The node has a spare Ethernet port which you can also use, giving one aditional Ethernet ports on the node unit, you can use a network switch to give additional ports, use network switches on both units in the lounge and office for traditional Ethernet cabling of devices. The USB port which can be used as a music server is only available on the hub. The other USB port on the node isn't available for use. Obviously the hub one supports upnp across the mesh. USB port can also be used with a 4g dongle, did test, works like my old Ac3200. Hopefully BT Openreach is reliable enough not to need to use it. All in all impressive mesh solution. Footnote 2 (November 2021) now on full fibre to the premises (FTTP) Reviewed the wireless backhaul speed on the net since it wasn't shifting the data fast enough. The tip on the net works. You make Wireless Mode "Ax only" on the backhaul band. Enable 802.11ax / Wifi6 mode, 20/40/80/160 Mhz and enable 160 Mhz band (force the bandwidth to 160 Mhz for Max speed, not Auto). Think it's the Ax only forces it into the top speed but getting the other parameters right helps. Now speed tests show similar whether it's on the backhaul or not. Also need to ensure Smart Connect toggle is set to on and activate the management settings. This steers your device between nodes (Asus material on that). The defacto settings work. Originally it appears I had this setting off which left the devices to use their own intelligence, fine with slow broadband. Once on full fibre to the premises you need to ensure that Smart Connect is set on via the WiFi setting screen and the toggle shows the band's bunched together. This is critical since the devices stopped being steered without this (probably with the higher bit rate the intelligence I was using in the devices by themselves failed to jump to the best node). You can alter the default steering property parameters, seemed complex but doable if required. Left as is and see how it goes. My tablet is now moving around the house to the nearest node, it had stopped. That goes for all other devices in the house. I'd also take it off automatic band selection. Test bands as to which are the best, keep it manually set. Getting a wired connection out of the node on backhaul fast.com test checks whether the backhaul is good. First footnote and WiFi speed checks on the normal 5ghz band. Footnote 3. Bought another node now. Disconnected the Smarthub2 on FTTP go in via WAN setting PPPoE, login btbthomehub@btbroadband.com password bt. That is a fixed built in login that's default if you replace the BT supplied router. So back to where I was with Virgin 200 Mbit/s service in London, own equipment, but in rural Wales with FTTP and an Asus xt8 mesh rather than the rt3200 in London. Speeds 800 and 700 in the office and lounge nodes. Three WiFi points in the property. The house is like two detached houses in size so needs good coverage. Interesting the master "home" supplies the two nodes via the backhaul going up on one and across the property on the other, not daisy chaining. The mesh management screens work well. A development from the original Asus software. For backhaul connection you hit the optimise button and it selects the best connection for the mesh topography, although you need to work on the settings for a bit e.g. ax only, 160 Mhz bandwidth etc for the backhaul. Having found the best mesh backhaul route you can then twig the direction of the devices to help it along a bit. Betw
Author: Dimitare Nedeltchev
Rating: 3
Review: Well, where do I start... I'd start with the positives because the list will be short. Since the upgrade to 1 Gbps fibre, I now get just under a gig at the router whereas with the old TP-Link I was getting around 250 Mbps. And now the not so positives. The mesh - I was sceptical in the beginning with the wireless backhaul given our old solid brick house, but I was pleasantly surprised. I tested the wireless backhaul at various positions and all showed great connectivity. I was over the moon and even planned to remove the ethernet cable that I had for the old TP-Link access point. Good thing I didn't remove that cable. After I started using the mesh system, the backhaul started going into poor connectivity regularly. The optimisation that you can run to supposedly fix this, does nothing. The only way to get the backhaul up to great connection is to reset the remote mesh node. So I'm now getting the cable pulled, luckily I have enough length, to do a wired backhaul. Signal strength - I can't see any difference between the old TP-Link and this one. I still have the same devices that are reporting poor signal strength as with the TP-Link. Dual WAN - the reason I went for this system is due to the dual wan option via USB or ethernet. I had a 4G backup with the old TP-Link and it worked flawlessly. I thought it would be similar with the Asus, plug in, put the APN and off you go. Well .. It's now almost a month and I still can't get the 4G backup going. I raised a ticket, and this is another issue that'll touch, and I was pointed at the documentation. IPv6 - my new fibre provider required IPv6 and DHCP enabled on the WAN interface. So I did that. I don't use the built-in DHCP and DNS for the LAN so I disabled this on the router for the LAN. Now I get this is due to my specific setup but the documentation is so out of date, I had no idea what each option under IPv6 meant. So what ended up happening is all devices on the LAN got an IPv6 IP and Name server. Devices were going online unrestricted via IPv6... I had to read online what those options meant and in the end I managed to turn this off. It was an option to allow the router to advertise IPv6 internally. There is another option which is enabled by default DHCP-PD. I know what this means but I'm not sure if this will impact the ISP connectivity. For now all is good. No IPv6 internally. At least I did a crash course on IPv6 but ideally the documentation should be correct. Memory utilisation - without any of the parental controls or AiProtect turned on, the memory is at 82%. According to support, that's normal... But I won't be turning them on. Documentation is shockingly out of date. New features are added but documentation is not updated. Changing settings reboot the entire system - this goes across the board for most of the above issues. While troubleshooting the above, any small setting that you change required a full mesh reboot. For example, changing the APN on the 4G dual WAN settings required a full reboot. I just don't get it! Again I will refer to the TP-Link... Nothing of the sort! And the reboot takes close to 4 minutes... After which some devices can't connect back to the WiFi and require the WiFi connection to be removed and added again. Absolutely mental! This makes troubleshooting almost impossible! I almost thought of returning the system... In the end, I decided to keep it but I'll be building a pfsense box and use these as access points! Would I recommend them - if you want a plug and play and just forget about it with no gimmicks and special setup, then go for it. Otherwise... I may be pulling your hair out. If I had to make a decision now, I would not buy this. I'll just get 2 access points and a pfsense box.
