ASUS ZenWiFi AX Whole-Home Tri-band Mesh WiFi 6 System (XT8) - 2 pack, Coverage up to 5,500 sq.ft or 6+rooms, 6.6Gbps, WiFi, 3 SSIDs, life-time network security and parental controls, 2.5G port

I have purchased 100s of items from Amazon and have never reviewed a single product. After setting these routers up I felt like I had to let people like myself, who do extensive product research before making a purchase of this nature. My goal was to find the best choice for signal coverage, ease of use, and connection speed. I purchased a set of routers 3 asus AX ZenWiFi routers to replace a set of synology mesh routers - RT6600 + (2) MR2200s. The synology system was not horrible but I had dead spot, infrequent drops, and less than optimal connection speeds. From the time I opened the boxes it took me 90 minutes to read the instructions, download the app, power cycle the modem, then set 3 routers up at various locations throughout the house then reconnect everything in the house. The coverage is perfect and the signal is strong. There is not a single location in the house that doesn’t have full signal. I have 21 devices connected to the system and all of them are working well. I guess an explanation of the house geometry would also be helpful. The house is 2 stories ~2500 sqft with a full basement ~1500 sqft. The cable modem sits in the southwest corner of the basement. I placed the main node right beside the modem. The first aiMesh router was placed in the northeast corner of the basement and the second aiMesh router was placed in the center of the 1st story. I have a 200Mb internet connection. 5 TVs, 2 PCs, 2 Laptops, 1 iPad, 2 cell phones, 4 Alexa speakers, 2 printers and 3 other devices connected. I ran a speed test on my laptop and cell phone while streaming HD on all 5 TVs - 2 on Hulu, 2 on Netflix, and 1 on YouTube. The laptop registered 31Mb DL and 10Mb UL and cell phone was 22Mb DL and 8MbUL. I was not able to watch all TVs at the same time but as I walked thru the house checking connections I never saw a single issue with the video quality. Hope this review helps with your research. The only CON that I could possibly list is the price. The system cost $550 which is about $150 more than the synology routers I was running before installation of this Asus ZenWifi system. On another note, I replaced a Netgear router + mesh extender with the synology system in 2021 I didn’t notice much of a difference between the NetGear and Synology systems. I guess the bottom line is spend the money and get this system for your home if you are wanting a great WiFi solution. That lives up to the marketing hype on the website.Last comment - I am a real person who recently purchased this system and I am in no way being compensated for this review. I didn’t rate the tech support because I didn’t use it.

I bought the ASUS Zen mesh Wi-Fi system to replace a Linksys Velop mesh system that is three years old and had been giving us problems. We started losing WiFi frequently. I checked the Linksys app and found that the node router had weak signal and no devices were connected to it. I checked the node and unplugged it and restarted it several times but it’s light kept slowly fading and coming back on. I never really liked the Velop system. I didn’t like that in order to use the app you had to be connected to the internet and have a Linksys account. Supposedly you could log on with the router password but that never worked. When I first set the Velop system up I had to get a lot of tech support to figure out I needed to set up separate 2.4g and 5g networks in order to use our Sonos home theater system. I only bought it because Apple discontinued the Airport routers and sold Linksys. The automated message on the Velop support line said that a recent firmware update may be causing problems and you may need to restore the routers to factory and set up again. Two things I really don’t want to do are frequently restart the WiFi and go through the setup again. So I’m not sure if there is anything wrong with the routers or if it is a firmware problem but I did not want to deal with it. Of course it was about one week past the 3 year warranty period. So I did some online research and decided to try ASUS. The setup was easy using the app on my iPad. The choice to separate 2.4g and 5g was part of the setup. Also I did not have to create an online account in order to use the ASUS app for set up or to check the system. The app is pretty easy to use. It is easy to see lists of devices that are connected to the main router and the node. One odd thing is that the app displayed the names of our desktop computers, but the mobile devices are identified by numbers. Had to figure out which number went with which device and then rename them. It’s important to recognize our devices to make sure no one has joined our network without permission. We have been using it for more than a week now and everything is fine. No more dropped WiFi, good signal throughout the house including the basement (routers are upstairs) and in the yard. We stream a lot of movies and tv, no gaming. I concur with one of the reviewers who said that the 2.4g doesn’t have blazing speed. We have 500mbps service. I used our ISP’s speed test and found that we got about 150mbps on the 2.4g network and 500mbps on the 5g. I can’t comment on their tech support because fortunately I haven’t had to use it! Very pleased with the ASUS Zen system that seems to work consistently and we don’t have to think about it.

Ok, so I have been running a bodge of a mesh network using older Netgear triband (X6-R8000) routers and the Fresh Tomato firmware for a while now.Recently one of my 2nd hand routers froze and on reboot refused to pass POST. I had already soldered a serial header into the other router to correct a failed firmware flash but not the one that failed, remembering what a PITA that job was and realizing my network could probably benefit from modern wifi hardware (I have *a lot* of wireless devices...) I broke down and bought these new (now semi-outdated) Asus routers...Hot damn, why did I wait so long?!My stubborn adherence to open source and "low cost" (money, not time) networking has been robbing me of what I now see is one of the smoothest, fastest, easiest to set up and manage wireless network experiences ever.These things are great! The firmware is so simple and smart that at first I didn't quite believe it. The damn things Just Work(tm). The simplistic app and 3-STEP initial setup hide the extensive customization, security and control options in order to keep fingers that shouldn't be messing with those settings from breaking functionality. But they ARE there.The effortless performance and stability my network has now is like a dream... And I can still tweak all my firewall and access rules and ddns and etc to my heart's content.Did I mention the actual radio signal performance on these is excellent despite the compact size and having no external antennas? I do sort of wish there were more ethernet ports on the routers, but a switch solves that for only a few $$ more.Nice job Asus, these things rule.