ZenWiFi AX6600 Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System (XT8 2PK) - Whole Home Coverage up to 5500 sq.ft & 6+ rooms, AiMesh, Included Lifetime Internet Security, Easy Setup, 3 SSID, Parental Control, Black

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.

منتج ممتاز جدا و يعتبر افضل اختيار حاليا في 2023 لربط شبكة Mesh wifi او حتى لاستخدامة كراوتر منفصل من اسوس . Triple band Ax6600 wifi 6 ai mesh for asus رائع و تم استلامه كما هو بالوصف تماما من البائع و قبل التاريخ المعلن في الاوردر

Probably overkill. Which is what's great about it. Full bars, stable signal, crazy good speeds on all 3 floors. Router in basement, node on main floor. Easy set up. Easy to forget it's there. Just going through and learning all the settings now because I like to pretend I'm a networker guy - and might change some. But probably not. Setting this up was really, really easy.

Prior to the Asus ZenWiFi AX (XT8) AX6600 Mesh Network I had a TPLink router acting as an A/P covering top floor and FIOS G1100 router covering bottom floor. I have owned and used my two node XT8 network for just over month now. The original upgraded firmware when I purchased the set was FW version 45934, I am currently on FW version 46061. Overall, I’m very happy with this mesh system. I have a two-story colonial with a full basement. I have the primary XT8 set up as a router and connected to a FIOS router (double NAT’d). The primary XT8 is at one end of the house on the first floor wired to the FIOS router and the XT8 Mesh Node is at the other end of the first floor connected via Ethernet backhaul (Cat5e). I did run the XT8’s in wireless backhaul mode briefly to test speed and it seemed to work fine, however since I had the Cat5e cabling in place wanted to use that as the backhaul and use both 5Ghz wireless bands on the XT8 for front haul. The XT8 system allows me to do this with Ethernet backhaul. Using the ZenWiFi AX web interface I can see a mix of wireless 5G clients on both the 5-1 and 5-2 bands in this configuration. After one week after obtaining the XT8 mesh system, I did try the Eeros 6 Pro mesh system. I will say the Eero 6 Pro mesh performed very well during the week I used it. And I did like having the 3rd node as I used that node on the 2nd floor to give better signal strength upstairs. Like the XT8 system, I did try the Eero Pro 6’s in wireless backhaul briefly, then switched to Ethernet backhaul since I had the cabling in place. For me the biggest con of the Eero Pro 6 is that you only have the phone app to manage that system (no web tool) and for the most part it’s designed to plug and play so doesn’t have as many configuration options as you get with the XT8 system. The final straw on the Eero Pro 6 system for me was that the enhanced security features required a paid subscription after 30 days. That being said, I think for people that want an easy to set up system that performs well, for the week I tried it I would give the Eeros 6 Pro a thumbs up. Unfortunately, one week doesn’t provide a very long basis for this comment, but it was my experience so passing it along. I use the ZenWiFi XT8 mesh system with around 40-50 clients. Most are wireless. Over 30 are IOT. I’ve had no issues with any of my IOT devices connecting or staying connected on my XT8 system. Using Iperf3 with a wired server on one of my XT8 mesh nodes and the Iperf3 client on an iPhone 13 I get 300 – 833 Mbits wireless download speed in most locations in my home. Speedtest Internet speed varies based on the server I select in Speedtest but I can generally get 300-600 Mbits with a good Speedtest test server that’s not overly busy. My FIOS speed is the 1G service. From the FIOS router this service typically ~930Mbits/930Mbits down/up (using Verizon’s speed test service from a wired host). After one month of experience with this system, streaming, web browsing, and working from home with several MS Teams sessions daily I give this system a very high rating. When I did the FW upgrade from 45934 to 46061, I originally upgraded right from the web tool and the system seemed to be working ok, however there were some system log entries that puzzled me, so I performed a WPS factory reset to get back to factory default configurations. Not a real fan of this method of upgrade as I spent a lot of time naming my connected devices and ended up repeating that process after the upgrade, however it gave me a baseline factory config which I’ve noted for my reference in the event I tweak settings on my XT8 system (like the “Smart Connect Rule” settings that allow you to tweak the triggers and station selection policies for wireless devices).

Easy setup, liked the lifetime Trend Micro and Parent controls, also coverage and speed was immediately noticed. Used EERO 2nd gen and had 15-20 connected, now coverage is great. Haven't had to use tech support yet. I think that their is an option for web but did everything from the app.