ASUS ZenWiFi XT9 1 PACK - Support 160MHz Channel, Expanded UNII-4 Spectrum, Ultra-fast Wired Connection, Flexible Backhaul Choice - Black

ASUS make great WiFi equipment and the XT8 has become better with time thanks to regular firmware updates (plus 3rd party support in the AsusWrt Merlin GNUton's builds) and a web admin interface that is highly configurable. Range and speed for me has been very good with 15+ devices connected but the best has been the reliability and fast startup/reconnect times of the router+node. The only negative, and it is quite a big one, is that the supported control channels for the hardware I received only reach to 140 (5700MHz) despite the UAE and UK (as a UK socket power plug adapter was provided) both allowing higher channels than this. This reduces the available non-DFS channels and so also reduces the channel bandwidth possible (reduced speed) on the higher channel range.

good for bigger apartment, although it took a while for me to position it correctly

Asus is my favorite. they are stable and solid with easy to install and manage App

Happy with the product overall. Security control is really good. Coverage is good. However, I had to turn off wifi 7 and revert to just 6 because it kept acting with issues here and there. Wifi 7 still needs work.

These things refuse to do as they are told, had one completely brick and is not responding to rescue mode or reset button or anything. All the others seem to insist on joining a mesh network without explicitly being told to do so. Nightmare to manage and deal with. Do not buy

For me, the most important thing, was having a reliable connection throughout the apartment. With the ASUS XT8, I achieved that.

May need more in older buildings without networked rooms to hardwire the backhaul function. Wireless backhaul will be slower than hardwire.

Good signal and throughput