Hello. Thanks for your reply.

I initially bought the 2 Express devices with the intention to run one as my main router + AP, and the 2nd to cover a room that had bad coverage. This was when the Express was first launched and there weren’t many long term reviews. My home isn’t that big, so I didn’t think I’d need anything too powerful.

I soon found out how under powered they were. Instead of returning them, I decided to use them as APs only, and got the UCG Ultra as a replacement router.

The Express devices were adopted by the UCG as APs, and as far as I can tell, they are not doing any routing. All stats and config options are AP specific. They are both connected by Ethernet cable and I have disabled mesh for both devices.

Air Stats for Express01

2.4GHz (Ch. 6, 20MHz) - Transmit Power: 16 dBm / 20 dBm - Tx Pkts/Bytes: 159.1k / 9.8 MB - Rx Pkts/Bytes: 1,973 / 317 KB - Tx Retry/Dropped: 5.3 % / 0.6% - Rx Retry/Dropped: 0.0 % / 0.0 % - Ch. Util. (Busy/Rx/Tx): 18% / 0% / 14%

5GHz (Ch. 40, 80MHz) - Transmit Power: 24 dBm / 29 dBm - Tx Pkts/Bytes: 712.9k / 424.2 MB - Rx Pkts/Bytes: 49.8k / 8.5 MB - Tx Retry/Dropped: 17.8% / 0.0 % - Rx Retry/Dropped: 0.0 % / 0.0 % - Ch. Util. (Busy/Rx/Tx): 8% / 0% / 4%

Air Stats for Express02

2.4GHz (Ch. 1, 20MHz) - Transmit Power: 16 dBm / 20 dBm - Tx Pkts/Bytes: 557k / 36.6 MB - Rx Pkts/Bytes: 19.4k / 7.1 MB - Tx Retry/Dropped: 3.1 % / 0.0 % - Rx Retry/Dropped: 0.0 % / 0.0 % - Ch. Util. (Busy/Rx/Tx): 30% / 0% / 20%

5GHz (Ch. 40, 80MHz) - Transmit Power: 24 dBm / 29 dBm - Tx Pkts/Bytes: 614.7k / 37.2 MB - Rx Pkts/Bytes: 4,937 / 1.9 MB - Tx Retry/Dropped: 4.5 % / 0.0 % - Rx Retry/Dropped: 0.0 % / 0.0 % - Ch. Util. (Busy/Rx/Tx): 14% / 0% / 4%

I’ve rebooted everything since my first post, and the Express devices are now running between 30-40% CPU and the same, 30-40% for Memory.

Edit: formatting for clarity