# BackgroundI bought this unit to deal with a dead zone problem in my house

We now have coverage in the dead zones of my home which was pretty bad to begin with, AT&T was never interested in providing a

I figured that just replacing the old AC68U with a AC5300 would probably not fix the dead zone problem *by itself* but that I could just make the old AC68U into a mesh node paired with the new router and place it to eliminate the dead zones

My whole house now gets 100 mps with no dead zones at all.

I got tired of dead zones in the house and splurged on this machine

As expected, the AC5300 *by itself* did not fix the dead zone, but using it with the AC68U in a mesh did fix the dead zone.

If you move it to fix one dead zone, you create another one elsewhere

I use the new AC5300 and the old AC68U in an AiMesh setup to eliminate dead zones in my house

Our dead zones were pretty bad - I tried to improve the situation with a NetGear internet extender/booster to no avail

Furthermore, I have a 3600 square foot tri-level home and the router is located centrally on the first floor and I havn't had any problems with wifi dead zones anywhere inside or outside of the home.

The problem we had was our last router wasn’t strong enough to cover some of the areas of our house, and we had these dead zones

Our dead zones were pretty bad - I tried to improve the situation with a NetGear internet extender/booster to no avail

There were dead zones for our last router in several spots in the house and they have a good signal with this router

Wifi distance is amazing:Dead zones in our 3 story house (with router in basement) are now gone

No more dead zones.

A single wifi access point will necessarily cause dead zones in my house because we have a stove and a fireplace that are centrally located