ROG Rapture GT-AXE16000

flint 2 is better , flint3 seems like a down grade, i personally had the ax86u and just now use it as a node, main is axe16000 https://preview.redd.it/1pg79cu7xcvf1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ad53ab8bca885e17aea6787c810fbc85c93254d

I’ve always had Asus routers with my recent being the AXE 16000. As a result it seemed logical for me if I wanted a mesh system to go the AImesh route. I purchased an extra couple of ASUS routers and to be honest found the speeds to be disappointing and found that the extra routers were often disconnecting. As a result I moved to a TP link Deco system and have been incredibly impressed particularly with maintaining my internets full gigabit speeds between nodes. I know some people go on about how managing the system is app only but personally I actually find that more convenient, but then maybe I don’t tinker enough with the system to require more access than that, apart from changing a few DNS settings.

For a single Wifi 6E router, you can't do any better than Asus GT-AXE16000.

Funny that this is marketed as a gaming router, but the strength of this router is in a high wireless / wifi dense environment. I run over 80 smart devices on my home network and am currently using an ASUS GT-AXE16000 which is the first router I have had that handled this dense of wifi devices without hickups and kicking devices off the network at times. Also, I want the AI for the security handling. I am sure that China is using AI to hack into systems now so it will take AI to battle AI. We are in a chess game for network security. I want this router but the last thing I want it in is white. Nothing degrades over time faster than white plastic. It needed to be in black. Until they have a black options I am holding off buying it. I have seen it in the UAE in black so I know it is being made with that option so I do not understand why it is not being sold in the USA that way.

I have ASUS mesh and it is rock solid.

I have 20+ on a regular basis. I am about to upgrade to whole house Ethernet and I am putting in a zigbee network for smart lighting. My backhaul will be wired. I spent $600 on the Asus 16000 when I installed then split a lower end bundle with my buddy on Black Friday to get another AP. I usually rebuild my network every 10 years.

https://a.co/d/fw7bOw4 This bad boy is amazing for the money. $285 with coupon right now if you're in the US.

I honestly cannot recommend Asus products anymore. I spent over a month with the GT-AXE16000. Absolutely amazing hardware, but the firmware was definitely a bit buggy. Random latency spikes and drops everywhere, AI mesh is fucking atrocious and doesn't work properly at all, And if you mess with the network too much taking it down and putting it back up multiple times or even sometimes just one time it fucking knocks some of your shit off. In all fairness, I did pair the router with an Aris SB6183, but I have heard that that modem is pretty good so I'm surprised that I had issues, we get 90 Mb down and 10 MB up so it's not our speed that was a problem either. We switched to a Tp-Link Deco system with three nodes and the improvement is noticeable.

I have no experience with Eero or Orby, and no experience with the Asus BQ 16 pro (I live in the US so that's the one available here), but I do use an Asus gaming router. The one I use is the GT-AXE16000, why not the GT-BE98 Pro? Because it was almost twice the price and we only have one device, my dad's iPhone 16 Pro, that has Wi-Fi seven Support with only two more devices, my mom's 15 Pro and my M4 MacBook Air, that have Wi-Fi 6E. The rest of our stuff is either Wi-Fi six, Wi-Fi five, or Wi-Fi four. But overall it has been pretty stable, not quite as stable as I hoped but if you are prioritizing customization over absolute reliability and stability, I'd recommend it. What I would not recommend doing, however, is dropping $1200 on a mesh Wi-Fi system when your house may only need a single crazy powerful router. In addition, I would go with the BT10 over the BQ16 Pro unless you are going to use that second 5 GHz band as your backhall. I seriously though would recommend saving the $400 and getting your house wired with ethernet, then getting a BT10.

Definitely wouldn't be my first choice, I had the GT-AXE16000 and it just gave me more issues than it solved.

I'm glad that you've had great experiences with Asus routers. Personally, I had the ROG GT-AXE16000. Not sure if it was the fault of the modem I was using, Aris SB6183, but my ping would randomly jump around, there was one or two times when the network didn't fully go down but where it buffered for a minute, AI Mesh did not properly transfer my band settings although I was not using hardware with the same amount of bands (shouldn't have to), three of our devices following the first time I reboot of the router and the second time a bunch of reconfiguration of the Wi-Fi settings would stay online until a single command was sent to them, then would drop back off line, and I'm blind and the web interface was atrocious for accessibility. Asus Support said that the AI Mesh problem most likely stemmed from the current running firmware version and the cached firmware version of the router being different, 3.0.0.6.102 for the running firmware version vs 3.0.0.4.388 for the cached firmware version. Why didn't that change when I updated the router? We switched to a Tp-Link Deco BE63 and it performs much better, though in all fairness to rule out any modem issues we also switched the modem to a Hitron CODA56.