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

I grabbed this back in February of this year, and it worked fine for about two months or so. Then last month the secondary node just stopped connecting to the mesh anymore and we had to factory reset both to get anything to work again. And now the whole thing goes down every few hours and needs to be rebooted - sometimes a couple times before both nodes show up in the app and everything functions again. Will absolutely never be buying another networking solution from ASUS after this.

This provides excellent speeds and coverage. However, I have never had so many issues with stability in a router.

My unit die after 1 year, tech support confirmed to be hardware problem. Had to pay for shipping back to Asus.

Would not work. Customer service wanted me to send it in for repair on a brand new product. I dont believe I will be looking at any of their products in the future.

I love the speed and the coverage with this router and mesh node. The challenge has been older 2.4G equipment (amazon echos, amazon plugs, amazon firesticks, HUE lights/bridge, HP wireless printer, etc...). For some of the devices I was able to create a 2.4G guest network and add them to that. Something about a shared SSID across 2/5/6 G did not work for the older equipment. My old HP OfficeJet 8610 printer could see the networks but just would not connect. Luckily for me the printer is very close to the router so I was able to fix the issue by just using a CAT5 cable.

It didnt last 5 months. Its too late to send back to Amazon. Coverage was decent, my house is long. So I had a small dead zone in the center. I couldnt ever set up the aimesh feature that I bought this for. After HOURS of trying tech support couldnt even resolve it. Unless the seller gives me some help. Im out the whole system. Oh, and for some reason ASUS official site wouldnt let me register the product. Frustrating.

I did not deduct a star because I was able to figure out exactly how to use these in my situation. I did not want one to be the router and the other as the node. What I wanted to do was add both as nodes and continue using my Asus RT-AX86s as the main router. I must note that all my hardware is connected via Ethernet - lucky for me, my house came prewired for it in all rooms. I reset both devices and then was able to add them both as nodes - one on main floor in my room and one upstairs in my sons room (the RT-AX86S is in the basement) It has worked flawlessly. I did not try to use these as WiFi so cannot comment on those. If you can connect via Ethernet cable, that would be best IMHO.

The performance Ive been getting on this mesh system has been pretty good. When using 6E for back haul it only allows for connections to base satellite unit which limits range significantly. Wish 6E performance was better.

These were announced by Asus in June 2021, and released broadly around August. Availability was limited and most places didn’t have them in stock until end of 21 / beginning of 22. I just received word that it is “end of life” and would not be receiving firmware updates. A $600 router system that has 1.5 years of support? How long does Asus expect people to keep a product like this? If I want to keep my 1 year old very expensive WiFi 6E router system - I have to live with security vulnerabilities because Asus won’t update the firmware.

I got the ET8 over the XT8 because I had line of sight between the node locations. It may start with 6ghz and giving good speeds but for some reason they keep falling back to 5ghz uplink.