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.

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.

I suspect there was a non-wifi router or also a switch in the cabinet which connected to WiFi nodes/routers around the house. If you decide to put a wifi router in the cabinet, use an older WiFi 5 or 6, not 6E or 7 because you're not going to get any 6 GHz signal out of that cabinet and most of the router's worth is going to be in ethernet gateway routing. You can connect an unmanaged switch to each wall outlet around the house to expand the number of available ethernet ports at waist or knee level and connect simpler, cheaper asus wifi nodes whose primary worth is broadcasting wifi on top of a bookcase or shelf at or above eye level instead of the more expensive combo wifi-ethernet gaming routers which end up looking like a spider hairball of antennas & ethernet cables. Either of the wifi nodes you've suggested above would be good but the BE58U would give you 6 GHz band for end devices with 6E or 7 capability whereas the Zen AX6600 model lacks 6 GHz band

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.