ASUS ZenWiFi Whole-Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6E System (ET8 2PK), Coverage up to 5,500 sq.ft & 6+Rooms, 6600Mbps, New 6GHz Band, AiMesh,Instant Guard

This was easy to setup. It just worked from the beginning. I had one question about setup and called the tech number on the Eazysetup folio included. Got a human right off the bat. Just gave them my serial number and they gave me the right suggestion. One node is upstairs the other downstairs about 55 ft away. I’m getting 180mbs on 2.4hz and 800mbs on 5 hz while using 6E on backhaul. I have a one gig service. The app works fine too.

Going to try to keep this short and sweet.

I have had the router since December 2022, so approximately 3 months. During that time we have experienced near daily disconnections of all WIFI devices from the WAN connection. WIFI devices are able to connect to the network, but lose all access to the internet through it. Wired connections are completely unaffected.

I did play around a bit with the location of the 2nd mesh router, but once optimized, it worked amazingly.

The good; Tech Support tried, I will give them that, Setup a Cat-6 as a dedicated backbone between the two units with 50 feet of each other, when it worked it was nice and fast Wifi 6e at 1.2/1.4 Gb/s. HOWEVER, when your spouse, working children, and your own WebEX/Zoom/etc and work from home connections FALL OFF every 15 to 30 minutes, you find out this was engineered for bleeding edge gamers willing to accept the drops. NOT recommended, we work, we do not game, it was the most expensive AND worst experience for work from home. IT engineer telling you to just use a single Wifi 6 router not this!!

I have a rather complicated and large home network and after much research I decided to buy this router. I had a few bumps along the way when I first migrated my devices over, and had a hiccup or two getting the mesh running at first. BUT, since then, smooth sailing and fantastic reliable speed. After much testing I found that I really didnt need a second AP with coverage from my main router. But I added the second because, well, why not? We have a 1300sf 2 story town house with a massive amount of nearby networks. And just the one router covers the home, back yard and garage great! But, I still added the second router so I could cover an even bigger area, and while completely unnecessary, its impressive! I had read numerous reports of bad experiences, but I found that by setting up the router, and mitigating many different bad devices, cables, and converters in my LAN, Im getting stable fast internet everywhere.

I purchased the Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6E System (ET8 2PK) and it is worth the extra cost. The 6GHz Band is a game changer! It was easy to set-up using the iPhone app and the computer web interface. As an added bonus, I was able to set-up a USB external hard drive to use as a quasi server for my music collection. I have set this system up in my house and my daughters house with great success. Go for the 6E version.

...but I dont. Its got features galore, and it seems like it would be very clever about allocating bandwidth to the many WiFi devices in my house. But it just doesnt work reliably enough. It will randomly drop devices, switch them from the closest node to one further away. Sometimes the two nodes wont connect, and I have to reboot them both several times before they find each other. Why? Who knows? Theres never much rhyme or reason to it. The little lights arent helpful. ASUS themselves provides no guidance. It just randomly doesnt feel like doing its job until you interrupt its AC several times.

Mesh keeps disconnecting even when connected using an Ethernet cable

I purchased this item to replace Google nest. Fast and easy setup. Lightning fast Wi-Fi: 500 -700 down on devices within 30-50 feet. Up to 1gb with ethernet connection. The phone app is robust and the web interface has everything else you may need to adjust the system to your needs and to tweak the performance. Future proof to boot.