ASUS ZenWiFi AX Whole-Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System(XT8
ASUS ZenWiFi AX Whole-Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System(XT8), Coverage Up to 510sq m or 5500sq ft or 6+ Rooms, 6.6 Gbps WiFi, 3 SSIDs, Life-Time Free Network Security and PS5 Compatible, 2.5G Po
Commercial Grade Security
- No Subscription Fee
- Protection Against Attackds
- Block Access to Malicious Websites
- Infection Detection and Blocking
Smart Looks for Smart Homes
ZenWiFi AX works perfectly with smart-home services — including Alexa skills and IFTTT — and is available in black or white to suit your décor.
AiMesh Technology
Even non-experts can quickly set up AiMesh technology, while more experienced users will appreciate the comprehensive advanced networking features.
| Dimensions: | 16.2 x 16 x 7.5 cm; 716 Grams |
| Model: | 90IG0590-MO3G20 |
| Batteries Included: | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. |
| Manufacture: | ASUS |
| Dimensions: | 16.2 x 16 x 7.5 cm; 716 Grams |
| Origin: | China |
Excellent all-round
Bought it (2 pack) to replace sky modem/router (SR203) for use in Ireland. Found the GUI really easy to navigate and to setup via the ONT box. Connection is very stable throughout the house.
Best solution for a garden office - worth the extra money over TP-Link Deco
When I upgraded to full fibre broadband at 500Mbps from a 70 Mbps broadband service, I found the speeds I was getting in my garden office no better than before – around 30Mbps – using a TP-Link Deco S4 mesh wifi setup. So I decided to upgrade my mesh wifi so I could get the most out of my new speedy internet service. It was much more difficult than I expected – I tried a couple of supposedly faster TP-Link Deco systems but they were no better, even a Wifi 6 model. And then I tried the ASUS ZenWifi XT9 and suddenly everything got faster – it was a night and day difference. I can now get around 200Mbps in the garden office, and speeds around the house are better too. It’s a brilliant mesh wifi setup and I recommend it. The app gives you good control and the option to change all sorts of settings but it is mostly plug-and-play.
Doubled the Speed of my Sky Interne
I’ve had Sky 1Gig FTTP and was finding that the max speeds I would be getting on ethernet would be below 500mbs and wifi, up to 165mbs on 5Ghz if lucky! and around 70mbs on 2.4Ghz. After swapping that out for this, I am now able to experience much bettter speeds and at least double what I was experienced before.
The Wifi range, hands down, is soo much better – which is to be expected given the 2 devices, but what really makes it stand out is the amount of customisation you can do behind the scenes to fit it around your work/ home life. A great purchase, just wish I hadn’t waited so long!
Wi-Fi Mesh, coverage for the whole house with two units
Easy to set up, it has allowed my wi-fi to operate all over the house at the full bandwidth my service provider is supposed to be giving me. Using Wi-fi six it is performing much better than my previous mesh, which only gave me half the bandwidth this provides.
East set up
I have struggled for years with WiFi not covering our home. Dead spots throughout.
I have tried extenders and repeaters.
But this mesh set up was easy. And seems to work with good coverage.
Great upgrade for Virgin Media
Used as an upgrade from Virgin Hub/Wifi Pods. Much better coverage and stability across the house, speed greatly improved. Subtle aesthetic compared to a lot of other options. User-friendly and straightforward app. Worth the premium.
Works most of the time and provides good cove
Excellent piece of kit but needs to updated and maintained. Occasionally loses high speed wifi backhaul that a power cycle fixes. Software excellent but remote access poorly implemented. I bought a 2 pack and a single, I needed more cover and supplemented with another 2 pack – they offer excellent cover in an old victorian house.
Wonderful and upgradable mesh system
Bought a long time ago (almost 2 years already?). I had some problems with stability on some firmware when you touch too much advanced settings, AND activate the DoS and the parental controls and the the traffic analyser and QOS app Analysis and you forgot that have them activated, probably because the memory/emulated storage get full.
I could get around 900Mbps on most of the places. I use it mainly to link the cable broadband at our bedroom (that I could not move) with my office on the upper floor on the right, through thick walls and I have steady more than 2Gbps backhaul with 160Mhz bandwith on the latest firmware (-60dbm).
DO NOT MIX with inferior mesh systems such as the XD4 that has no dedicated backhaul since either it will use the 2.4Ghz for its backhaul, or the 5Ghz with low throuput because it will share with backhaul and clients, or will use the upper range and the clients will not use the 5Ghz.
But I sucessfully added the XT9 to replace the XDR4 and put it as my “main” router having currently the XT9 + 2xXT8 working flawless
Provides excellent WiFi signal throughout a house with thick concrete walls
I have a Virgin Media Hub 3, located in the lounge downstairs of a 2 storey 3 bedroom house. I have an office upstairs (I mostly work from home) and was getting relatively poor WiFi speeds – I’m on Virgin’s M350 plan, which gives a theoretical 350Mbps download speed and 36Mbps upload speed. With my laptop in the lounge, I was was getting a little over 300Mbps download speed and 36Mbps upload speed over WiFi, but upstairs in my office was only getting about 80Mbps downloads (though was able to get around 36Mbps upload speed).
With the ZenWifi XT9 pair setup (which was very easy using the dedicated app, once I’d put my Hub 3 into “Modem Mode”), with one in the lounge and one in the corridor at top of the stairs, I’m now able to get 392Mbps(!) download speed and 37Mbps upload speed over WiFi when my laptop is in the upstairs office, even with the door shut.
The units themselves look smart and discrete (and you can even turn off the status leds, if desired) and the mobile app has a modern design, is easy to use and provides loads of options. Updating the firmware was straightforward.
From what I’ve read, if the going for a Mesh setup with Wireless backhaul (i.e. you’re not connecting the Mesh units with ethernet cable), you’re actually best going with a triband Mesh Wifi 6, rather than Wifi 6E setup (i.e. no 6Ghz band), as there’s really no benefit – can be worse in fact, as the 6Ghz band has shorter range and struggles with thick brick/concrete walls (like we often have in the UK), although can notionally be faster.
The Zen Wifi XT9 (which is triple band and Wifi 6) has 3 bands – 2.6Gz, 5Ghz (1) and 5Ghz (2) and uses the 5Ghz (2) band exclusively for the Backhaul (i.e. not shared with your other devices). The XT9 also has 160Hz bandwidth on both the 5Ghz bands. The slightly cheaper older XT8 only has the 160Hz on the 5Ghz (S) Backhaul band, is 80Hz max on the 5Ghz (1) band and a slightly slower CPU (only 1.5 Ghz quadcore vs 1.7Ghz quad core. Also the XT9 has Google Assistant support (as well as Alexa), whereas the XT8 only has Alexa support. The XT9 also supports the following additional Wireless security standards compared to the XT8 – WPA-Enterprise, WPA2-Enterprise, WPA3, WPA3-PSK, WPS.
Highly recommended all round!
Better than the res
Great product with lots of added features in the web GUI. No dropouts to date, rock solid signal. will definitely buy another if expanding the mesh system.
Great Mesh System
Got these to replace my existing single router. I wish I had done it sooner. This mesh system is very impressive. Really happy with it. Lightning fast and fantastic coverage. Well worth the price. The setup was so simple. No messing about. Download the app and follow the instructions. Overall fantastic product.
Excellent piece of equipme
Bought this to replace my Orbi and no regrets. Excellent wifi speeds and coverage with added free security.
My Apple Airport system was terrific but this…..
..Asus is really good bit of kit. Nice and easy to set up. Easily attached my 11 pieces of kit. They all work better. Even my temperamental Ring door bell is working well.
Fast, brilliant coverage and solid
This replaces 5 old google Wi-Fi devices, coverage in the house is astonishing for this old Victorian 4 bed with only two units. I thought I would need 3 devices, and possible a wired back haul but no, with just two and not wired back haul these are blazingly fast in every room. My gym, for example, used to get 5mbps (I have 700mbps broadband), with this I get 250Mbps! Every room is 10 times faster than google or better. I tried a TP-link competitor device set, that was just as fast as these bit fiddly to set up and glitches a lot. This ASUs set is solid as a rock, I am truest astonished at how good they are, 100% recommend.
Very good coverage, consistent speed, stable and controllable.
After two weeks of use I am very pleased with this new system. I bought a two unit pack, plus one additional unit, to replace a flaky Linksys Velop tri-band setup. My stone terraced house is between two others which have been converted to flats, so the WiFi spectrum is quite crowded and my old system failed to hold a manually set channel, and was constantly hunting for a ‘better’ signal with frequent drops in speed. This only became a problem after neighbours switched to Virgin Broadband and changed their routers.
These new units have similar range, and i can set all three to use the same channel and they stay on that chosen channel. Now we do not have frequent channel hopping for my own, and neighbouring, networks. I have strong coverage across three floors and into the extension – with some solid walls and some lath and plaster walls, with full speed throughout the main house and around a 30% speed drop in the extension and garage.
Setup was simple once my telephone connected to the first unit, I then powered up the additional units when prompted in the app, and in around six minutes they were all linked together and ready to place where needed. Signal strength stabilised quite quickly in the new locations.
The AI Protection feature has already protected one user from malicious site visits and I could quickly and easily activate parental controls for devices used by visiting grandsons. Parental controls vary by age group, and devices can be grouped for easy admin. Almost all features can be set in the phone app, with slightly different options in the web interface, and it was easy to set up using my phone, with the website only needed to refine some settings for connected storage.
Strong reliable Wi-Fi
Added as a node for a XT pro. It has great range. Used a dedicated backhaul via Wi-Fi first but then used cat6. This covers all my upstairs and also the outdoor cameras
Top quality.
Been using this mesh system for a month now never dropped off once and speed stys at top end of my network provider package.Highlt recomend product…Downside a bit pricey.
Fairly easy to set up even for a novice
Got these and installed today. Set up process was very easy. Make sure you use the phone app as it gives you step by step instructions.
My only gripe is I ordered white, and like a lot of people we have white walls and white skirting boards, but guess what, I got the white routers but with BLACK cables. What a shame.
Apart from that, all good and I would recommend. Signal is strong throughout a large house plus in the garden.
It sorted our poor wifi signal in a house with thick stone walls over 3 floors.
The device itself was relatively easy to set up and configure though some of the instruction steps were out of order. The coverage is far better than we expected in an 1840’s house built of stone with no dead zones at all now. As we had various devices hooked in to our network they each needed redirecting.
After DAYS of researching mesh systems, I thought I’d finally found the system for me in the Deco x95, but it ended up being a bit disappointing and I’ve subsequently swapped it out for an older and cheaper ASUS XT8 system instead. The Deco X95 looks great on paper, and a lot of tech reviews have various flavours of the higher end Deco systems like it ranked highly in speed tests, but I was not impressed with the speeds I got in my home with it, especially on upper floors. The XT8 is absolutely flawless anywhere in the house, while the X95 is not, and this was the main factor for me sending the X95 back and keeping the XT8.
I have a Virgin 600mbps connection through their Hub 3. When hardwired into the router, it actually pulls about 630mbps, though. I’ve attached a pic of a spreadsheet I made testing the X95 against the XT8, so this really speaks for itself. This test was run on an iPhone 12, but I did the same testing with my laptop and had similar results.
The main X95 node connected to my modem works more or less as well as the XT8- I had similar download/upload speeds on the ground floor with both platforms. However, the X95 really falls down on how poorly nodes elsewhere in the house connect to one another. I could always get wifi on the 1st floor, but the X95 auxilliary node had a self-proclaimed “moderate” connection to the main node, while the XT8 told me it had a strong connection between nodes. The wifi speeds in my daughter’s room very clearly show how the X95’s poor node connection translates into lackluster performance. The XT8 absolutely obliterates it!
I find the TP-Link Deco app to be a bit more user friendly and responsive than the ASUS app, but otherwise that’s about the only place the X95 shines over the XT8. However, the ASUS app is significantly more configurable than the Deco app, as the former lets you tweak pretty much every setting on the planet, while the latter doesn’t let you change anything. I haven’t even taken time to fine tune the XT8 yet, so it probably could have even better performance if I played with some settings.
In the Black Friday sale, a two-node XT8 system will run you 320, which is 130 LESS than the X95. Even if performance were equal, the XT8 would still be a better buy. I really wanted to like the X95, but I just can’t recommend it at its current price. It’s not a terrible system by any means, but there are comparable (and better) options out there for much less money.
I purchased the Asus XT8 pair. The packaging/Box was very nice with a lifted insert for the manual and cables and power cord, etc.
This seemed like a quality product as soon as I opened the box these pair of XT8’s looked very modern with the gold logo and a nice LED indication light, Very happy.
As the title states These XT8’s provide great Wi-Fi coverage for my home/front/rear garden and exceptional speed when paired with my Asus RT-AX89X for complete home Wi-Fi and backhaul solution.
These is built in Security/IDS/lots of extra features and settings.
These can also work on a separate 5Ghz channel if you do not have the physical ethernet cable runs from the XT8 point to XT8 point to enable backhaul you can still use its Wifi reception to connect up the mesh wifi for very good coverage.
In total we have around 50 devices connected up and running quite happily on this network
ASUS do release firmware when feature updates or security releases are required. Also (Im not 100% sure) you can run Merlin’s FW on this XT8’s which is pretty cool as Merlin makes some very useful features available to those who want that extra kind of thing.
Very happy Its a shame its not WIFI 6E but all in all Very good product/Support/Information/ Fairly reasonable price/Solid products from ASUS as always!
Be careful
For starters this product is shipped from France and needs power adapters (not a big deal but should’ve be told at the time ). Also it will cost over 50 to return.
Have managed to get it to work with a draytech vigor 167 modem. Seems good now.
Powerful
Bought a pair of these in white, they blend in with my IKEA white units and I now have coverage around the house.
House is a 1930’s internal brick walls and manages to send a signal through the walls. I’ve placed one of them upstairs at the front of the house.
Not yet played around with all the settings but there’s a lot you can change in the router settings. Or just plug it in.. update the firmware then link them together.. all very straight forward and can then be left alone. Once updated and linked I have not needed to reboot/touch them.
Access via pc or app is easy. Full security with lots of options This knocks my old netgear nighthawk out the park.
Only down side is it only has 4 Ethernet ports on the rear and you need to use one of them to connect my virgin router.
Wireless speeds in same room are around 450-500mb. Upstairs at the back of the house I’m getting around 340mb. That’s with virgin m500. With my PC downstairs plugged into it in am getting 540mb. Lots of units connected to it no problem what so ever. Very happy with my purchase and it’s above and beyond what I need.. but at least it’s future proofed and has all settings I could think I’ll ever need.
Very happy.
Fantastic wifi router but not great for older devices
As you’d expect the wifi strength, coverage and speeds are excellent but there are some downsides not mentioned here.
The configuration menu’s (for both the mobile app and web gui) are terrible, not user friendly at all. For example, the list of connected devices is a non alphabetical list which changes when it refreshes and there is no way to sort it to show devices actively using the wifi.
Renaming a device to a friendly name in the mobile app doesn’t seem to change it when viewing the list of devices in the web gui.
Also, if you hardwire the 2 nodes it sometimes showed wireless devices that are connected to the 2nd node as wired.
The biggest failure (and the reason I returned it) was the fact that any older device, not wifi5 or 6 capable, seemed to have terrible trouble connecting. I had numerous older devices (Squeezebox Radio’s and PC’s with old wifi cards in) couldn’t see the wifi network at all. Easy to say “just upgrade” but when they all worked perfectly on your old mesh wifi network it’s hard to accept this newer one is an improvement in this scenario.
Reliable, good features, good WiFi range, not so good instructions, very happy so fa
I found the instructions a bit feeble and struggled initially to set it up (especially as I wanted to keep the IP range I used on my old routers to avoid re-configuring every device). A couple of hours later though and it was setup beautifully and has worked flawlessly now for 2 months.
I have 2 units, both downstairs in opposite corners of my 4 bed house and the WiFi signal is strong in all rooms on both 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. I use Ethernet back haul and therefore can use the 3rd band for WiFi – oddly the 3rd band gives faster performance than the other 5 Ghz band – so I save that for my favourite devices.
My Virgin Hub 4 is in modem mode and I get 924 Mbps (D) / 50 Mbps (U) speeds directly from the routers and typically get between 250-600 Mbps (D) / 50 Mbps (U) from connected clients (laptops and phones).
The router web portal is well designed and has lots of features. I have successfully configured port forwarding, parental controls, etc. I’m yet to use the Alexa and IFTTT features. Easy to backup router settings.
In summary – I’m very happy with the Asus ZenWiFi AX. Very good coverage – no more black spots in my typical UK 4 bed house. Reliable and plenty of standard features. Would buy again.
Just a brief one.
I have Sky FTTP via the usual Openreach ONT, and the Sky router was excellent on ethernet (1.2Gbps) but not so hot on Wi-Fi (150-250Mbps).
So I plumped for the ASUS XT8 following the reading of several reviews. I set it up in router mode connected directly to the ONT, rather than as an access point from the Sky router. I set the DHCP option 61 for Sky, and bingo – job done. 1.2Gbps on Ethernet and 770Mbps+ on Wi-Fi. Ensure the Tri-band setting is used for maximum Wi-Fi speed.
Easily covers my three bed house, would probably do a much larger house too. The DHCP 61 key is as follows (accessible within the WAN section of the GUI via the router’s IP address on any browser)….
anything@skydsl|anything
As long as you use that key (importantly with the ‘pipe’ symbol after ‘skydsl’) it’ll work perfectly. You can use that precise key if you wish.
Anyhoo, a cracking router. I also purchased the matching wall mount which allowed me to position the router in the dead centre of the house.
The accompanying app is a little shaky in that it can quit for seemingly no reason, but it does the job for a quick overview. Far better to use the IP GUI via Ethernet for any settings changes.
Worth every penny of the price. Nice and compact, looks pretty too.
I needed a new router since I was upgrading to BTs 500mb plan and was pretty confident the Smart Hub 2 couldn’t deliver anywhere near that wirelessly. It felt like it struggled on my previous 150mb plan – with intermittent speed drops and trouble keeping up with casting my desktop to my TV.
I have this set up in my living room in a 4-bed detached. It fully replaced my BT Smart Hub 2 (with a single complete wi-fi disc.) I initially wanted a mesh system to replace the BT setup since my direct connection to the BTSH2 was pretty bad from my desktop PC (it sits in the further part of my home.) I wanted a reasonable future proof replacement and my options were the Eero, Netgear Orbi or TPLink Deco. After countless reviews I ended up with the XT8 as it seems to provide the best speeds over a longer distance. Surprisingly (or not?) I get better speeds connecting directly to this router (signal shows 4 of 5 bars) as opposed connecting to the BT disc (previously 5 of 5 bars) which was sitting in the bedroom directly above the living room which hosts the SH2.
Pros –
Much faster and more consistent wifi than the standard BT router. I’ve attached a speed test I did to the furthest area inside my home.
Better signal – no extenders or additional ‘wifi discs’ needed
Guest network can be used if needed
AiProtection included with no subscription required
Parental controls (can be set against websites/apps/or specific devices). Time scheduling is also possible
Built in speed test (with history) to show what speeds are going directly to the router. Useful to show your service provider if you aren’t getting expected speeds.
Built in VPN if needed
IOS/Android app can be used to manage and monitor the network
USB port supports devices such as printers and hard drives, making them available across the entire network
Cons –
None at the moment, it does exactly what I need. Current uptime in the log is showing 28 days – so far I have not rebooted this router since updating the firmware the day it was received.
Yeah so this little devil is a must have for all us work from home moms and dads.
I was struggling to get a decent internet connection while I worked and provided all you can eat Candy Crush, Minecraft, Orange County House Wives and gawd knows what else being streamed, downloaded or switched on and forgotten about in this house until I found my precious!
Now it takes a little journey to setup but what you want to do is Broadcast two different WIFI signals from this box of magic. You put the orcs, trolls and Nazgul all on one of the WIFIs and then you just put yourself on the other. You basically want to set it up so that you’re never on the same channel or band. A quick Google will show you how to do this.
Then you just sit on the other WIFI all to your self never having to worry about competition for bandwidth.
The software that ships with this piece of kit is no joke either. You’re free to take your evil to the next level by throttling individual devices, dropping them off the network ( not that you care as you have your own ) or even what content the devices can access. It’s amazing what leverage you have when in control of the bandwidth folks!
1 ping to rule them all! Buy it folks, you’re not just buying bandwidth – your buying power!
Big Popa P ou
Ok, let me address some repeating comments here first. This system can transmit at upto 6GBps if you link the two nodes by a cable. This is standard practice and shouldn’t be seen as false advertising. If you use the Wireless meshing system you utilise one of the two 5Ghz radios as a dedicated mesh backhaul. That still gives you a great WiFi AX network. Also if your looking at true 6Gbps requirement you will need 10Gbps wired infrastructure to everything else anyway so it really isn’t a problem. I have about 70 WiFi devices in my home and there is no bottle neck across the network and I am using the WiFi mesh.
Right, onto the main review. This router and node kit is fantastic! Powerful, fast and full of useful features from an easy to use App (Android and iOS both available FOC) or the web GUI. Features include advanced IPS and gateway antivirus (provided by Trend Micro), full VPN server, excellent QoS and a host of other features for the advanced user.
Setup was a breeze via the iOS app and from unboxing to fully configured mesh WiFi took less than 10 minutes. Please note however that the WAN port is presented as upto 2.5Gb Ethernet so you will need a Modem if you use VDSL/FTTC. I have a DrayTek Vigor 130 in my setup but the white OpenReach modems will be just as good for 99% of users.
So far it has been rock solid and not missed a beat. There are some really cool features built in including a Speedtest.net plugin to test directly on the router (so you don’t have the drop between router and client) l, also a real-time traffic monitor lets you see how much bandwidth each device on your network is using in real time (great for fault finding) the VPN server works flawlessly as does the endpoint for Site-to-Site VPN.
This is a great router system for both standard and advanced home users and would definitely recommend!
Works as expected
Bought this product to extend an existing Asus zen WiFi to the garden office.
Conected as an additional node with out any difficulty.
It is now placed in the office and working as expected
WiFi connects and I can now use a wired connection
Before the additional node
Poor and unstable WiFi connection and a 50 mb home plug connection
Now a strong stable WiFi connection and a 280 mb wired connection
My set up is not unique and really wanted a strong wired connection
To those who say that this product is rubbish and does not work :
To set it up you need to follow the Asus instructions
The connection is stable but needs carefully placing of the nodes
If you are experiencing a weak connection you may need to reposition a node or as in my case due to distance and a solid brick wall needed an additional node
You Also need to be careful if changing settings
For example I changed the dpch server to192. 168.0.1
This apparently conflicted with the original virgin media dhcp setting on some work from home devices causing a no Internet connection error
Switched it to a different ip address and no probs sence
So the routers work
Be careful with the initial set up
Be careful if you change settings
Running for a few weeks now with no issues and good WiFi coverage.
Was uncertain if the Asus mesh router would bring a significant improvement to my previous ageing high-end Asus AC router. Lots of mixed reviews seem to be posted for all the main router brands, but luckily for me so far I’ve had no issues yet. The WiFi coverage has been a significant improvement over my old router and after a few weeks running I’ve had no stability issues. I’ve not really tested for speed improvement on the local LAN and since I dropped my internet speed to 100Mbps to save money on greater bandwidth not needed by me very often, the WiFi and Ethernet speeds to the router exceed my internet connection speed easily.
A few months in now and have had no issues with speed or connection. Has been very stable and no reboots required.
Great speeds everywhere, on all devices
Has vastly improved wifi throughout the house (and garden!). No dropouts, maximum speed (per ISP) everywhere. Not needed Tech Support. One small snag with set up: in selecting a user name only use alphanumeric (I used a full stop and got Invalid Code message without a note saying what was invalid).
Overall, very pleased with the performance.
Great produc
Waited a few weeks to write this review and have to say I’m really pleased with the purchase.
It was really easy to set up, no major issues and I have a moderately sophisticated set up, multiple SSIDs, guest network, VLANS, etc.
Miles easier for setting fixed IP addresses to devices than my previous single router Netgear.
I set one up in the living room and one in the loft with a straight line of around 15m I’d say through 4 walls / ceilings and the whole house is now getting 400-500 Mb/s off a BT 500 service plan. Approx. 50 smart devices and at any one time 1-3 4k or HD streams and downloading going on with barely a noticeable dip in performance.
Best point for me though, I am getting 30Mb/s in the non-connected garage where I got nothing before.
So have managed to replace a four node powerline system, 1 in the garage and two in bedrooms that had brick walls surrounding them that were very poor for wifi before.
The app IMHO is miles better than the Netgear with more functionality and I really only had to switch to the web interface 2-3 times for the more advanced features I needed. For a typical home that just wants to setup and go I think the app is probably all you’d need.
Very pleased no hesitation in recommending this even at this high price.
Velocissimo e stabile
Usato in un appartamento in cui la Vodafone Station (wifi6) non arrivava da un capo all’altro della casa, la connessione ora stabile e veloce e arriva fino in strada dal secondo piano.
Un computer connesso via Ethernet al router secondario raggiunge 650-700Mbit in download e quasi 500 in upload.
Brilliant Ki
First disclaimer I purchased from Currys (had voucher) but can’t review there without a reevo account.
2 years ago we went into lockdown and work from home became the norm, we have a loft conversion and turned it into a home office instead. Problem was WiFi signal was terrible (presume the steel work was the cause)
We have BT fibre 500mb
Tried a Ethernet over Power adapter but due to each floor being on its on circuit we got slow 30mb speeds so I got a TP link deco system 3 x20 units which gave me fine speeds about 90mb fine for work…then I decided office/gaming room so I want to utilize the 500mb as best as possible so I got a Deco X60 as the master and each corner of the house put the X20 units now we were upto 140mb on a good day.
I’ve just taken them out and installed 2 Zenwifi XT8 one connected to BT smart hub and one in the loft I get full 500mb speeds 3 floors up it’s crazy the dedicated band for commication between master and slave just boosts beyond belief!
I get fast WiFi now in the loft than I did sat 5 MTRS away from the BT smart hub 2
Only let down for me is the Apps a bit crap but hey thems speeds is all I care about!
Top quality but you expect it for the price
The network was very easy to install through the app and the signal through the house is impressive. With my previous extender we struggled to get 15mb upstairs with a 200mb connection and now we get a solid 160mb+ all the time. Expensive but (depending on how frustrating you find slow internet!) worth it.
Great Route
I am not a tech savy person as such but have a house full of products requiring WiFi including Sky Glass. Even though Sky Glass was plugged into the free issue router from broadband provider by cables, it would buffer and freeze, tablets and phones would drop WiFi and range was an issue. Swapped to this router and haven’t looked back. Excellent range 255m2, no drop outs and easy to set up and control. Most people blame provider of broadband for issues, whereas most of the time issues can be attributed to the cheap routers they provide. Have had it a couple of months now. Highly recommended this product.
Great network now
WiFi signal now excellent throughout house. Haven’t switched off server WiFi as not necessary but will do so to see if even further improvements but easy to set up and very effective after 3 weeks with no problems
Brillia
Used to have a EA9500 and used access points for full home speed but as my Linksys died after 6 years I thought I’d try this. Full house coverage wirelessly and speeds of 600mbps on my Samsung phones. Wireless speed between router and node is 1092mbps which is fantastic.
Improves internet accross the entire house
Setup is super simple and I was able to pair it with the node and quickly get running in less then 20 mins. Covers almost all areas of my house.
Since purchased I have had no dropped signal, there was a day where internet kept dropping but it turned out that the issue was caused by my ISP router the Virgin Media Super hub 4. The web interface and app provides alot of features to manage your network appropriately.
This router I feel was definitely worth it for me. It was pricy, but for the price you get 2 nodes that would cover your whole home and can mesh using either a dedicated link from its triband wifis or via ethernet.
Great coverage with the 3 router mesh system - covers all the house, the outbuildings and gardens.
Wifi signal is superb and works across the entire footprint of the property – except for two things. Our Rubbish Balboa wifi controller was designed such a long time ago it won’t work with a mesh system (there is a workaround tho with an extender that works off the electric curcuit) and the garden lights – workaround used a wifi plug so can only turn them off and on but at least can be controlled. Everything else works perfectly!
Best Upgrade I made
Got this over black friday and never regretted it. Tons of options in the router and it is able to connect directly to my Eir Fiber OTN so I can just chuck the Eir modem away.
No issues handling the high number of devices I have at home. Started with wifi 5GHZ backhoul which was reliable however since I have a cat5 running to the room from downstairs living, I was able to use the ethernet backhaul and full speed all around the house.
Bon produit wifi6
Utilis en remplacement du wifi d’une box red by SFR
Bon wifi6 et wifi5, un peu plus faible en wifi4
Trs bonne application pour piloter le systme
De nombreuses fonctionnalits : wifi invit, protection du rseau, mesure du dbit de la connexion interne
Best upgrade for today.
After months of issues with Nest WiFi over the past 3 months I took the plunge and bout the 2 node set.
Best move I’ve made. Rock solid signal in ever room (4 bed, 2 stories) and graden. So fast, so many features.
Best extender so fa
Use this as an Ai-mesh extender for my ASUS router to fill a couple of dead spots upstairs. Has been running a while now and has been faultless to date, consistent Wi-fi signal everywhere upstairs an no having to restart it every other day like others I have tried.
Great bit of kit for bedroom
Got this to extend my gigabit broadband coverage via wifi in the bedroom, using Ethernet backhaul. This has worked flawlessly, I’ve used AiMesh and roaming works great with my Apple devices. And it’s been rock solid stable so far.
Better still this device is small and discreet for the bedroom.
Incredible upgrade
Simply can’t fault this product – I recently had Virgin Media (350 package) and had the router installed in my upstairs office, knowing fine well the WiFi signal would not cut it before installation I already had this Asus product in mind.
The app is very user friendly, after completing a simple step by step setup via the app, the router was ready from the get-go – all I had to do was plug in the additional router downstairs which was automatically connected and configured.
I have attached a breakdown of speeds before and after, the property is around 100 years old and has solid thick brick walls throughout the house – I no longer need to worry about dropping signal at any part of the house.
Exceeded my expectations.
La caña
Bueno, en casa era una odisea el tema play y domotica. Me haba dejado llevar por opiniones de internet en ciertos videos en los que unos cubos y un router de una marca eran estupendos … pues me gast, como suele pasar, un dinero tirado. Tengo que decir que este dispositivo est conectado al router asus RT-AX89X y el tndem es infalible. La distancia es grande y an as todo funciona de fbula. Lo recomiendo sin duda
Fantastic piece of ki
As I upgraded to Virgins 1gig broadband, I needed to upgrade my previous AMPLIFI HD mesh system to fully utilise the upgraded speed. Our house is fairly large and have over 52 devices connected to the router ( WiFi & Ethernet) the old mesh system was for example giving me speeds up to 200 mbps via 5ghz which ok is not too bad but like I said if you have 1019gig speed coming into your router, you want to make the most of it. I knew when I upgraded that the new mesh system had to be tri band and have WiFi 6 connectivity to future proof. I did my research and settled on the ASUS purchase. As the price tag of 592 for 3 nodes is quite high, I thought let me purchase and if the difference is noticeable then I would keep, if not then I would return. Received package and set up was done within a few mins. My tip is to separate out each channel (2.4ghz, 5ghz & 5.2 ghz) have smart features off and when connecting all the nodes initially, have them close by and then move to desired location. I ran the same test speed on the same device, location etc and instead of 200mbps, I was now getting around 700mbps! Safe to say after fully configuring and re linking all devices to the mesh system that I am keeping the system and I cannot highly recommend it enough. The set up is a breeze and it’s a big investment however it should keep for a long time and worth it!
Amazing
Had these 6 months by the time of writing this. After trying a variety of other options I settled with the ASUS Zen, I got to say these are amazing. In our House for around 7 years the upstairs has suffered with weak wi-fi from my wi-fi routers traditional style ones. Now the kids are amazed, they have rock solid, maximum wi fi, and as most modern houses have, phones, watches, laptops, streaming tv, tablets, friends and guests as well as SKY Q , and the main connection to the main computer wired in. Not only is it stable, its been absolutely fire and forget, not once has this setup been rebooted since install. It has a handy APP that I use to update firmware and manage connections etc. Excellent.