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)

I have an Asus GT6 Triband, worked well out of the box. Now after a few years, I decided to reset my routers to see if I could make it better as I was having trouble with my ISP speed. It turns out, I made it worse. Now, I may have to put moca adapters. Or add ethernet cables to where I need them to be. I now have only one single router working, and it seems better that way for now. I also used to have the Asus XT8s but they were a pain during the 1st year. But got better after the 1st. Now I use them as Nodes and have been good at least. My vote goes to either using ethernet cables or sticking to Moca.

I use Asus ZenWifi XT8 mesh system (3 nodes) - detached house - all working flawlessly (cat 6 for ATV/Macs/gaming and wifi 6 for iPhones/security cameras etc.). Think there is a newer version of this one now though so have a check. Totally happy with performance and speed. EDIT - all nodes are CAT6 connected back to the main node so uses Ethernet as the Backhaul.

Still OK. But ideally you do want to run Ethernet cabling to any nodes and 100% run cat5/6 to the ATV - in my opinion. You then get full speed to each node and release extra bandwidth for the wifi network. You can hide them under the carpet edge/skirting or pop a board and run along floor joist. In our last bungalow I ran cat6 outside (in black conduit), up the wall into the loft space and connected all the wifi nodes in the loft via cat6 and mounted them to the ceiling in the rooms below (we have white units to match the ceiling so they are not noticed). One each end of the house and one upstairs in a central location. Perfect signal and rock solid.

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.

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.