Deco X68

Installed Deco x68s at my place, x55s at in laws, x55 pros at friends, and Linksys Velops at other friends, all hardwired, rock solid and roaming works flawlessly. All of them having 20-30+ clients.

I've been considering switching to the Asus WiFi for meshing as I'm finding my Deco units (3x 68 and 3x 75, all in AP mode) to be not performing well. I tried to connect them via Ethernet - even just the root Deco and one other, with all others off - and they just wouldn't work and instead flash a red light. I also hate not having a useful web interface I can check instead of being forced into the Deco app. Any experience with the Asus mesh? Is it better, same, or somehow worse?

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.

Get 3x Deco x68 (or better) tri-band units. One next to the main router. One in your room. One between the two.

Deco X68 / XE75 etc. The backhaul is on a different channel to the clients.

X68 has a dedicated backhaul.

Imma go against the crowd here. I have a similar issue to you in that I have a house where a single access point does not cut it. I deployed the cheapest Wifi 7 mesh system on the market at the time. - (TP-Link Deco BE68) It does the job pretty damn well. Can stream 1440p Youtubes anywhere with no problem. Handling nearly 100 Wifi clients no issues. Yes. The control interface sucks. I hate that the web interface is very bare-bones. In another place I spent many thousands of $ running Cat5e all over. What a waste of money that was. I have points where I have never used them, and there are places where I could use one that have no point. Terminations also go bad over time. And now the Cat5e is outdated and probably won't handle 2.5Gbps let alone 10. In this place where I am now I have put in one hardwired connection to behind the entertainment system where I knew I would have a data use hotspot, but nowhere else. It keeps the airwaves clean I guess but I often wonder if it's really necessary. It would have been cheaper to put in a mesh extension and replace it every 4-5 years as the tech speeds up. Right now I have more bandwidth to the bedrooms with wireless backhaul over 6GHz.

Just added the BE63 last night.  So far so good.  I have W3600s and X20s working with it.  Started w 3600s, large house so I added x20s.  No reason but I felt like upgrading the main unit.  Wifi near main unit from 300Mbs on wifi5 to 800Mbps on wifi 6.   Ping has been solid.  I have an ethernet cable plugged into a satellite that goes to my ps5.  I'm competitive online.  No complaints.  The Nintendo Switch ping drastically dropped too (not hardwired).

I have an x6 .. I never feel like I have been let down by it. I use a UNifi USG for the routing tho’