I started with an Asus RT-AX86U Pro, which is part of their AiMesh Extendable router series. If I need more coverage, the Asus ZenWiFi BD5 Outdoor is my first SPOG choice. I would do this with wired backhaul for better performance.
However, for gaming, I'd run a good Ethernet cable back to a LAN port on the router.
If you want to open up your wallet, and go down the rabbit hole of Ubiquiti… that’s up to you. Are they good? Sure? Are they necessary for most home applications? No.
I’m probably gonna get a lot of push back from Ubiquiti’s cult following when they read that. But oh well.
This is my home network. I use 3 Asus ZenWiFi BD5’s. They’re dual band mesh WiFi nodes. They each cost $100. They all have a wired backhaul.
On the mesh side of things… anything more than dual band is just wasted money if you have a wired backhaul throughout the house.
If you want to have just one router/gateway, a single switch, and multiple wireless AP’s throughout the house… there’s nothing wrong with that either.
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Unless this person really needs 10 gig ports, mobile tethering, the second WAN port for backup internet, and the 6Ghz band, the BT10’s are just expensive overkill.
2 or 3 well-placed BD5’s, with a wired backhaul, will be more than enough.
Got rid of my shitty nest wifi pro and bought a wifi 7 Asus aimesh network setup. Light years ahead and can reliably stream my PC at over 100mbps over wifi. So can do the portal with ease whereas the nest could not
When my Nest wifi was finally on its last life, I purchased a much more expensive Asus mesh router setup that supported wifi 7. For whatever reason the more advanced features of MLO didn't work with my TV. So basically I had to cripple my expensive setup to work with the device I use all the time.
I ended up returning that and switched to the Nest Pro and have had no issues. Been about a year now. Solid connectivity and speed. I bought the 2 pack for 250, not on sale.
Works great here and had the best 2.4 ghz performance for my 90 iots.
And I tried Eero max 7, Deco BE9000 or whatever the top model and the top Asus zen mesh wifi.
Reliability has been great. That being said, the other top models have much better 5/6 ghz performance, but honestly 300 mbps is fine for 99% of times.
MLO has been glitchy.
Nowadays I care more about reliability, latency rather than raw speeds. Set it and forget.
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Easy, reliable, smart home ready; but paid features.
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