ASUS - ZenWiFi AX6600 Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System (XT8)

I used Linksys for many years before switching to Asus mesh. Was never happy with Linksys. Completely happy with Asus ( 3+ years now ). Can't speak for other brands. When I find something that works, and works well, I stick with it. 4 x Asus ZenWifi XT8 AX6600.[](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081GH8XRS?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3)

Asus has worked fine here.

WiFi Mesh in my experience is great if there are good sight lines and few thick walls! Can you wire the house for Ethernet backhaul? My wife won’t let me wire the flat (which twists and turns and has very thick 19th century walls - and has the internet intake in absolutely the farthest corner from where I’d want it) so I’ve finally just gotten a decent mesh going with two Asus BQ16s and two Zen XT12. I found the high end processors in the 12 made a huge difference when I upgraded from the XT8. The BQ16 are a really good upgrade but not absolutely necessary: I could have stayed with an all XT12 set up but the XT8’s were simply not powerful enough for my set up. Obviously I have a long daisy chain going but it now works well and is fast. In a consumer/prosumer set up you won’t get the monitoring/notifying you seem to want - they all are pretty much set it up and hold your breath.

Har XT8. Hadde trøbbel i starten men etter en FE-oppgradering og litt omlokalisering av node (kjører backhaul via 5Ghz) så har den vært dønn stabil hele tiden. Jeg måtte flytte noden pga en pipe og et bad med omfattende varmekabler, vannkabler og styr som kom i veien for signalet.

I replaced powerline (nightmare) with 3 ASUS XT8’s (been rock solid). I suspect my house is a lot smaller and newer but had similar challenges (thick wallls with steel beams…… bison slabs/concrete floor upstairs). The powerline never really worked 100% with intermittent dropouts and had to manually switch APs as we moved around the house. Even tried 2 brands separately; TP link and Netgear. Our sockets are distributed on separate electrical circuits so I suspect that it might have influenced it. My guess in OPs case is his setup might just be too complicated for ASUS and something like Ubiquity might be better. A mate of mine has it and he swears by it ……. but he’s over-provisioned IMO, slower broadband connection, smaller house, no concrete floor upstairs.

Har to XT8 med ethernet backhaul og er kjempefornøyd. Veldig god dekning, god hastighet, veldig stabilt, kanskje 2 nedetider på 4 år som løste seg med reboot. Ikke noe spesielt vanskelig oppsett av dem heller.

I’ve been running the Asus ZenWiFi XT8 for a while now and it’s been solid. No dead zones, handles streaming and gaming without breaking a sweat, and the setup was dead simple. Plus, it gives you a decent amount of control if you’re into tweaking settings. Would totally recommend if you don’t need Wi-Fi 7 just yet.

It’s definitely holding it back. Moving to a wifi6 setup or greater would be ideal. I swapped out our google wifi pucks for a dual asus xt8 setup and it’s night and day in throughput for us in the further locations. The problem with the google wifi was the lack of customization. I can map out the signal strengths and place the pucks correctly but not being able to pick the channels or assign devices to a specific puck really does limit your ability to manage the coverage the way you want it to be. You want to be able to force a band for the backhaul. Google was constantly swapping to 2.4ghz as a BH so that alone will gimp your 5ghz fronthaul to 2.4ghz like speeds. Having more control of your network topology is a must.

Just need a more robust and customizable mesh system. Some wifi6 deco units have the ability to dedicate a backhaul band but its only if the firmware allows it and some deco hardware revisions have it and others dont. All have the option on their wifi7 mesh. Asus aimesh has it too. Honestly the cheapest and best thing you can do first is position your google pucks in optimal locations and see how that goes. Get a laptop and use something like netspot or use a phone and wifiman to map the signal strength so you can place your first satellite puck. Then after the first 2 pucks are going go ahead and do the same for the 3rd puck. You want the pucks spread out enough but also not too far that the 5ghz connection between them breaks or else itll default back to 2.4 on the mesh backhaul. Its a fine balance to find but it’s what you gotta do.

I have a mesh network that is a complete router setup downstream of the AT&T network and prewired Ethernet in the house. So it helps there with pushing networking to all rooms that I have. The nice thing is the whole house has a single SSID with multiple WiFi access points. The problem would be the costs. For my place at 2800 sq ft and 2 stories. I have about 6 XT8 devices to make up the home router. Cons: costs each XT8 pair is about $260. Each pair is supposed to be good for 5500 sqft but my IoT stuff has weak WiFi antennas. To compensate I just spread the shit out to cover nearly 90% of the house and outside.

I am on Asus, much better than the Hawaii stuff beforehand (their USP was power line backup, but they weren't great on the whole). Asus is rock solid and fast so far.