ASUS - RT-AX92U

I have a half wired half mesh home setup with external buildings that have a wired connections I have RT-AX92U mesh routers where they are all wired into the main router except for one RT-AX92U as that is in mesh wifi6 mode (the only mesh on its own dedicated back haul connection) which is also the router connected to the moonlight client device that is streaming a 4k120 stream with no issues The advantage of RT-AX92U is they do come in twin packs but I wouldn’t know what the CAD price tag would be You just need a good wifi6 or above for wifi mesh network and if you are going from house to garage I would recommend a good external grade cat6 or above cable connection for Canadian weather but a wifi6 mesh would cross that distance fine as long as there isn’t to much dense obstruction

I have an Asus ROG AX11000, two AX86Us, and one AX92U. 4000Sq home, seems to work fine. I will be replacing them with Ubiquity equipment once I decide to upgrade.

I have a few ASUS mesh units, they are great. Easy to get set up. Easy to manage and extend. I just got an ET12 pair and added my older 92U units, covers a large 3 story concrete building just fine.

You are right they are apples and oranges but they are complementary tech …. However afaik you’ll not get 802.11r on consumer gear unless you can set up a radius service on it. My mesh setup ASUS AX as far as I know uses 802.11k & 802.11v in its implementation. I can actually see in the logs where it boots clients off the network when it detects they’ve a weak signal from their connected AP and I can then see the client reconnecting on another AP. This is all managed from the main node.

I had Netgear (with an external firewall and generic access points) before they acquired Orbi, then tried Orbi which did not have enough info/options. Then went to at least 4 different types of AX Asus units for the longest time (10+ years with plenty of options and info but started to become unstable), then recently switched to Gryphon AX due to the need for parental controls for kids. I am thinking of going to Unifi next in a year or 2, as I miss the options/info that Asus provided, and get more with Unifi.

You can connect mesh nodes through Ethernet. OP has an Asus router, so they can buy more WiFi6 Asus Routers and connect them through Ethernet to set them up as AiMesh Nodes. My house network is set up like that, and I only have issues when streaming to my phone when going downstairs because it changes nodes, so it lags for like two seconds, and then goes back to normal. Other than that, it's a great experience all around.

It's called a wired backhaul mesh. Look it up. The point of using mesh nodes connected through ethernet is to keep the "seamless" transition between nodes without having any network degradation between them.

Asus with Ethernet back haul. Router + 2 APs. Works great, gigabit access all over the house!

my asus tri-band does really well. i get hardwired speeds on 5G using the dedicated 6G backhaul but the 6G band does not penetrate well, so it's important to not put too much distance or material between the main router and the mesh units