Brand only matters for the ui you like. Ausu tends to have more controls, netgear is the more "user friendly", tplink is the half way point.
Netgear tends to ship with netgear armor or what ever they call it. Good but annoying that once its on you pretty much have to do a reset to factory to get rid of it .
Netgear and sus will let you fully control through the web ui and limited controls on a app so you'd have both.
I never used the tplink app if they have one so I dont know about how it works.
That said, your requirements seem to be wifi 6 and longevity. So really any netgear AFTER r8000 would do what you want.
Netgear:
R7xxx <-- no
Rax50<-- yes
So as only as a 2018 ax8;
Ax8/ax12
Rax40, rax50, rax200, ect
Asus:
Rt-ACxx<-- no
Rt-AXxx<--yes
Rt-ax88u
Gt-ax11000
Rt-ax92u
Rt-ax58u
Which nighthawk model do you have? I have an older x8 for 2 story house and I get wifi everywhere even in the garage I'm which it goes through many walls, backyard, front yard, inside my car on the furthest driveway. Is your wifi router firmware update? Probably the settings or needs a full reset
Yeah, I gave up on consumer grade crap too, after I had a Netgear Nighthawk system that would randomly start spazzing out and start dropping packets on the wireless network and need a full power cycle every once in a while. Ended up going with Ubiquiti a few months ago and I've been pretty happy with it so far.
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