ASUS ZenWiFi Whole-Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6E System (ET9 2PK), Coverage up to 5,500 sq.ft, 7800Mbps, New 6GHz Band, AiMesh, Lifetime Free Internet Security

Had trouble with devices staying connected.

I should have returned these when i had the chance... I keep giving asus a chance, but their mesh networking is trash. Devices constantly drop or lose internet never again.

just received this and installed 4 days ago. worked good for 3 days. now the AIMesh node stuck in perpetual boot loop. online resources allude to failed automatic upgrade. I did ALL the resets, and even the firmware recovery tool which is more complicated than it should be (windows/OSX tool, no Linux tool). The documentation is close, but not exact. the LED colors and reset instructions differ from the documentation PDF. I'm in the computer industry and know about networking, this thing has stupid wizards and the recovery mode uses a different IP range than standard operation mode. 192.168.50.1 normally, 192.168.1.1 when in recovery mode. even reflash did not repair. was on support chat about an hour, finally he escalated to next-level support which will be 1-2 business days. at one time he offered "repair" , but i should not have to mail in brand-new package, especially at my expense. that said, when it worked it was good. i had 17Mbps downloads on my prior router. 50+Mbps on this one, same WiFi client. probably a 2.4Ghz vs 5Ghz scenario. edit: scheduled a return. attempted to rescue mode to revert older firmware, but could never enter into rescue mode again. such is a disappointment because these things look good especially in a clean upscale home. also note that the Ethernet ports do not have LED lights which is extremely odd. Uses an Asus fork/evolution of OpenWRT and had all the expected functions.

This ET9 is very impressive compared to Linksys MR9000 + Linksys Extender (3rd floor). My setup: Large home, 3 floors, router in corner of basement and 2nd node 3rd floor. Using 6 Ghz as front/backhaul wireless. The 2 nodes are approx. 50-60 feet apart going through wood/ceramic floors, and standard walls. 2nd node has 2 bars vs the full 3, to middle of house on 3rd floor. I now get 300 Mbs anywhere in the home which is much faster the 60-90 Mbs I was getting on 3rd floor with Linksys Extender and front of house 3rd floor was getting 10-20 Mbs. What I didn't like at first is that it used the 2.4 Ghz bands even if I was close or far from the router (node 1). So here I thought its like other people claiming it doesn't go higher than 150 Mbs.....I turned off the 2.4 Ghz band completely and BINGO....got my ISP speed. So my 4 star is based on this. I would have expected the router figure out which is the faster band and then downgrade to 2.4 it couldn't connect to 5 or 6 Ghz. Test here was with my iphone 13. Other thing was I could not change my subnet to their default without using a standard web browser on a laptop. The firmware both devices upgraded just fine. The inital app setup on iOS didn't even list the ET9 router. I found this odd. Why would it list all the other new ones but not ET9. After selecting "other" then eventually it finds ET9 and shows the pretty picture of the router. Scary at first but you need patience with this for sure. Not recommended for your average non-IT person. This router has some super nice features and I still haven't played with all settings or even optimized it yet. Why brake something when its pushed my ISP speed and have zero issues, so far. So if you are like me that had a ~$150 router and kids/wife always complaining, get this Mesh. Like I said, very powerful antenna's in this little box. UPDATE: So the past 2 1/2 weeks I've been trying to fix this ET9 system as its dropping packets and has timeouts during ping sessions to Google for example. I've traded over 22 emails with Asus support, and about 5-8 different people saying, "Were sorry...blah blah..." and the problem is not fixed yet. I'm probably out of my return policy to Amazon now and stuck with 2 $600 bricks for door stops. They have no clue what the problem is. Smart Connect is crap, they asked I don't use it. Why not? I used it in my Linksys $100 router and no issues. Here we need to premium costs and told don't use that setting. Then why advertise it? If you have XBOX - same issues. It seems when you have a constant need for a connection it drops 10-15 seconds. There are like 30 parameters on the Wifi advanced page and you'd think they would advise on that. Maybe 1 of them are wrong. Worked fine for about 3 days, then...BANG!!! dopped connections...no changes, no power outages...Hate to say it, I think I need to go back to Linksys where although firmware is crap, at least their wifi technology is much better than Asus from my perspective.