Technical Technicalities - Asus AI Mesh/Realtek adapters

Wifi UpgradesI purchased an Asus router a while back as I wanted native DD-WRT support as well as the ability to use mesh in the future, which Asus AiMesh seemed to have a good name for.In our old place I had the ISP as the router and ran a cable across the floor to my Asus AC3100 as a second AP. In our new place I really wanted it to be wireless. I purchased an Asus AX52 as a secondary node in the Asus AiMesh. For our backyard, which is the highlight of the house for me, we went from constant disconnects and maybe 1 to 10 Mbps up to 120 consistently, which has been nice.There were some abnormalities that had to be fixed in order to get this to work. The AC3100 is American and the AX52 is EU, so it only overlaps in specific bands. The AiMesh wasn't too happy trying to pick a band itself, so I set it to 36 and it's been rock solid.Realtek IssuesI picked up a new ThinkPad E14 Gen 5 laptop recently. I will probably make a post once it's in a bit of a better state, as it's getting a new…

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