ASUS - ZenWiFi AX6600 Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System (XT8)

I used Linksys for many years before switching to Asus mesh. Was never happy with Linksys. Completely happy with Asus ( 3+ years now ). Can't speak for other brands. When I find something that works, and works well, I stick with it. 4 x Asus ZenWifi XT8 AX6600.[](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081GH8XRS?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3)

WiFi Mesh in my experience is great if there are good sight lines and few thick walls! Can you wire the house for Ethernet backhaul? My wife won’t let me wire the flat (which twists and turns and has very thick 19th century walls - and has the internet intake in absolutely the farthest corner from where I’d want it) so I’ve finally just gotten a decent mesh going with two Asus BQ16s and two Zen XT12. I found the high end processors in the 12 made a huge difference when I upgraded from the XT8. The BQ16 are a really good upgrade but not absolutely necessary: I could have stayed with an all XT12 set up but the XT8’s were simply not powerful enough for my set up. Obviously I have a long daisy chain going but it now works well and is fast. In a consumer/prosumer set up you won’t get the monitoring/notifying you seem to want - they all are pretty much set it up and hold your breath.

Har XT8. Hadde trøbbel i starten men etter en FE-oppgradering og litt omlokalisering av node (kjører backhaul via 5Ghz) så har den vært dønn stabil hele tiden. Jeg måtte flytte noden pga en pipe og et bad med omfattende varmekabler, vannkabler og styr som kom i veien for signalet.

I replaced powerline (nightmare) with 3 ASUS XT8’s (been rock solid). I suspect my house is a lot smaller and newer but had similar challenges (thick wallls with steel beams…… bison slabs/concrete floor upstairs). The powerline never really worked 100% with intermittent dropouts and had to manually switch APs as we moved around the house. Even tried 2 brands separately; TP link and Netgear. Our sockets are distributed on separate electrical circuits so I suspect that it might have influenced it. My guess in OPs case is his setup might just be too complicated for ASUS and something like Ubiquity might be better. A mate of mine has it and he swears by it ……. but he’s over-provisioned IMO, slower broadband connection, smaller house, no concrete floor upstairs.

Har to XT8 med ethernet backhaul og er kjempefornøyd. Veldig god dekning, god hastighet, veldig stabilt, kanskje 2 nedetider på 4 år som løste seg med reboot. Ikke noe spesielt vanskelig oppsett av dem heller.

I’ve been running the Asus ZenWiFi XT8 for a while now and it’s been solid. No dead zones, handles streaming and gaming without breaking a sweat, and the setup was dead simple. Plus, it gives you a decent amount of control if you’re into tweaking settings. Would totally recommend if you don’t need Wi-Fi 7 just yet.

I'm considering switching to Asus gear after giving up on the Deco stuff from Tp-link. Really frustrated as the Ethernet backhaul just doesn't work, there's minimal control of what AP talks to what, everything meaningful has to be done via a mobile app, etc. The Asus gear looked quite reasonable from that perspective.

I love the Asus Xt8. The issue is when I want to upgrade to take advantage of the new hardware for wifi 7. But I feel like most newer ones aren't as stable as the xt8

My Asus XT8 does have separate bands. A number of their other systems do as well.

I had the ASUS XT8S, 2 of them did better than 4 Decos I had in the same spots in the house. I also had issues with the firmware, I ended up using WRT Merlin on them which helped but I still had to set them to reboot nightly to forego issues, but again the wifi signal definitely was stronger and more reliable than the Decos. The 2 Max 7s I have are miles better as mentioned already. So far im surprised by them, disappoined in the lack of control I have over them, they have very few options, I can't even sort by IP address in the eero app, so I'll probably set up an external DHCP server and run them on bridge mode but we shall see.