ASUS ZenWiFi XD6S Whole Home Mesh WiFi 6 System AX5400 (2 Pack White) Coverage up to 500 m² (4+ Rooms), Simple Setup, Network Security

I have a Virgin Media 500mb connection, my old router could not give me the through put. I tried the Netgear offering and that went back as it had a few bugs, so this router was my next try. Firstly you need to know and it is not really spelt out in the documentation there is 3 radios (hence the name tri-band) 1 x 2.4g good old wifi band then 2 x 5G good new fast band radios. I brought this as it said it was WiFi 6, Technically it is but only on the second 5G radio the first 5G radio is limited to 80mhz the second is 160mhz bandwidth and you have to go and enable it, it is not enabled by default even when paired with a second AX92U. The other issue if you have, is when you use a second AX92U as a mesh node it uses the second 5G radio as a dedicated backbone connection which means you then do not have access to the WiFi 6 it is not really spelt out in the documentation or specifications. I have tried with an Intel AX200 WiFi 6 PC card and it connects and the connection is stable but I can’t seem to get a fast speed connection between the 2 so i cant comment on the WiFi 6 capability of these routers. My iPhone reports on speed test between 450 and 500mbs all through the house without the second AX92U fitted. With the second fitted and configured in AiMesh it drops to around 400mbs when connected to the second AX92U which i would have thought would not have dropped that amout as the connection is WiFi 6 between them, no increase in ping time with the second unit fitted. It does come with built in security from Trend Micro unlike the Netgear Armour this is a free service. The only thing I really miss that the Netgear routers have and the Asus AX92U doesn't have is a speed test function from the router giving you a real idea of the speed between your router and ISP rather than between your phone or PC, over WiFi and then through the router to your ISP. Configuration was very easy to set up, the is not a lot of configurable items to tweak for example I can’t find how to set the MTU value of the routers connection. I am assuming this is done automatically.

Bought this to replace the stock Virgin Media Superhub 3 as I was suffering with wifi dropouts on my laptop and occasionally the wifi would not start on boot. It also took such a long time to boot that having to reboot was so annoying as I have no aerial or cable TV connection and rely on wifi as soon as I am awake to watch TV. On opening I thought this is quite small and the wifi fins were quite flimsy so i could see them breaking easy, but to be fair as its going to be out of reach its not really an issue. Installing this was very easy, I had used the Virgin Media forum on how to setup superhub and this router on first use (I would recommend you do the same). More importantly it starts a lot quicker on first turn on, in fact the router is ready almost immediately but the Virgin Superhub still delays slightly but its a lot quicker now due to it only being in Modem Mode. It has every configurable option I would want and much more. I would recommend you check which DNS search is quickest for you (plenty of guides and free apps online) as I found the virgin media DNS was fastest for me and my response time improved on adjusting this. I have had no issues whatsoever so far and I am looking forward to purchasing another AI mesh ASUS router in the future so I can expand my wifi further.Price was OK I guess in relation to others but still what I would consider to be pricey. I had some Microsoft Reward points that I used towards it else I may have waited until it was on offer or something.Overall really happy with my purchase

Nice, neat, easy to set up, just plug and play swapped with my isps fttp router.Works great on wifi 6 devices at medium to short range.Long range not so good and not working so good with x box, even with separate x box ssid set up woth xbox mode on.Works fine (very well) with windows laptops and desktops and android and iphones.Can be wall mounted ajd easily configurable. If used as a mesh system you lose wifi 6 as it uses this as the connection / back haul. Then you have AC and older, which is mostly fine too.Download speed seems to be slightly slower over WiFi than upload speed ie getting 350/500 vs cat 6 getting 500/500mbpsSimilar resutls when i had 1000/1000, was only achieving over 900/900 when wired but close enough with wifi. I soon downgraded to 500/500 as gb was overkill