How big is your home?
I’ve always been an Asus guy and recently moved over to the Ubiquiti ecosystem.
I had an ASUS RT AX5400 which worked perfectly fine for two TVs, a server, two desktops, two laptops, two phones, two iPads, and some IOT stuff.
I upgraded to the UniFi Express 7 (replaced my Verizon router), U7 Pro AP, and a couple UDB-Switches for everything. My throughput is much more stable across everything.
I use the Asus RT-AX82U and it works great. It is currently available for $91.86 on Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BJJ3RGW](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BJJ3RGW)
I got the unifi access point since it's the only good company I know that makes aps, and I had really bad signal at the top floor. I did order a ASUS TUF AX5400 router tho, which router did you have which was problematic? Unifi router seem a bit expensive, expecially since my Internet speed is topped at 375mbps and like 40mbps upload, so I would never use the full power of that anyways, and the Asus router was only £50
For the AX Series the 5400 is my primary router and I use them for a mesh network.
I would just go to the equivalent BE series for the newer higher throughput main connection needs.
Whatever you decide the main router entry point for the ISP should be the best one in the series as it handles all the entry and exit traffic. So you dont want it to be the bottle neck if you spin off nodes later.
ASUS RT-BE86U BE6800 is solid. But if you are looking to spend less the RT BE58U or similar but they wont have the 10GB WAN, only 2.5GB.
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