Last summer I replaced my aging Google WiFi home network with Asus XT9 mesh – a main router to cover the central part of the house, and 2 nodes for the more distant wings. It worked reasonably well – until it didn’t. Several days ago both nodes suddenly went offline and ignored my attempts to add them back to the mesh, leaving parts of the house (including kids’ TV corner) without adequate coverage. As you may guess, it was a disaster to be taken care of on the first occasion!

It took some time, but at the end of the day everything was up and running. I will spare you the whole story, but there are several important tips about XT9 that I learned today – both from my chat with the Asus support and from my own trial and error – that are worth writing down.

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