ASUS AC1750 Mesh WiFi System (Lyra Trio 3PK) - Whole Home Coverage up to 5,400 sq.ft & 6+ Rooms, Compatible with Alexa, AiMesh, Free Lifetime Internet Security, Parental Control

This is the best WiFi system on the market now. No doubt. This set supports cable connect between nodes, so it's 3x3 WiFi could be fully utilized for connected devices. companion app works just fine, setup is easy, works with fios modem. I do have a fios extender, but the speed is slower than Lyra trio. I place first in basement with Fios, setup second in 1F living room, I pull eth cable from basement to living room, 3rd at window to yard. about 1300 sq ft each floor. basically every corner could have enough wifi connection. I also tried the 3rd node connect to 2nd wirelessly, it worked, seems this mesh could have kind of hybrid mode? I was considering to have the linksys one, however a little bit pricey, so I have this one, and now just works fine. worth it.

I decided to buy ASUS Lyra trio mesh system because I previously had a positive experience with ASUS products. Unfortunately, ASUS Lyra trio was very disappointing! This is perhaps the worst pricy mesh system you'd ever find in stores. Not quite sure if the product normally has many bugs or I might be got a defective pack. However, I will list the couple of issues I faced with this product.First of all, each node has a very poor range of coverage in comparing to other devices like Lynksis Velop. So you can only place all nodes very close to each other. I had to connect one node with Ethernet cable, that node turned into a constant green light. I tried to search for all instructions on ASUS website, I didn't find anything explaining what the constant green light means? It only says that when the device has completely booted and connected to the internet it will show a constant cyan color! However, this constant green disappeared later after I had to reset the node and never appeared again. Later, I could see a constant red light that gets change constantly after some ‘blue’ blinking lights to constant cyan then ‘blue’ blinking and constant red .. so on. It doesn’t understand that node is connected to a cable. The node still transmitting WiFi and you can connect to the Internet and local Lan, but when I move to another room that has a Lyra trio node connected with WiFi to the main node, I will lose signal and then get full signal again! So no benefit from the MESH!Another annoying issue is, it takes around 5-10 minutes for each node to boot and after connecting them to the main node through the app, it will be a nightmare if you want to change the location of any added nodes. You will wait until the long boot finish, then even if you see the cyan color, the whole WiFi system will just freeze. You will see full network coverage on your mobile, but will not be able to surf the web or connect to the local network devices. So, the only option there is to reset the node and reconnect it again! through the app as a new node, I see in other mesh brands' ads where you can just unplug your node power, move anywhere in the home and plug it to power easily and you are all good. This is not going to be so easy with ASUS Lyra trio!The last issue is, in my existing network, I use ASUS RT-AC68U router. I have a 50 MB internet connection speed from my ISP coming from a sperate modem that is connected to my RT-AC68U. Using SpeedTest on my iPhone, I get 50 MB internet speed on results with no issues. However, when I first tried the Lyra trio, I removed the RT-AC68U and connected the Lyra trio to my modem so it became my router. When testing with SpeedTest on iPhone, I could only get 30-36 MB of internet speed! So, I had to return back making RT-AC68U as my router, turning-off its Wifi and making Lyra trio working on access point mode. I could then get 50 MB of internet speed in results if I'm very close to the nodes that are connected with Ethernet Cable. If I'm just 14 ft away, the speed will drop to 18-20 MB, even if I'm very close to the second node that is wirelessly connected to the main node.**Update** Just forgot to mention the issues with the appHad to mention this issues too! The Lyra app is another nightmare! The map of nodes keeps changing when you don’t change anything and sometimes showing unexplained signs. On the other hand, when I change the place of one node, the change doesn’t appear on the map !! There are also many bugs as it takes very long time to show the list of connected devices at the bottom and in many times the buttons to edit or remove for all/some nodes just disappear! It also sometimes doesn’t allow you to type using the keyboard if you want to change the name of a node, no matter where you touch. When you are connecting a new node, after choosing the name of a node, a message saying “Operation failed” appears. You then need to choose the name again and re-click the button to work.

My house is a sprawling ranch style that had been added onto both ends and my router didn't reach either end of the house well. It is great for stationary devices like my desktop computer, TV, PlayStation, etc. My computer on the far end of my house went from barely getting signal if at all, to pulling down 120 mbps.My phones and tablets are another story. It is not entirely seamless and my signal drops out sometimes as I walk from one end of the house to the other. This can be a nuisance since I use WiFi calling with no cell signal at my house.Installation was easy and the app worked well enough for me.

Bought Lyra Trio to expand the coverage in my 5,000 SF 2 story house w/ basement. I have an Asus RT-AX88U Wifi 6 router that alone is inadequate. For $260 for a 3 unit Wifi 5 mesh system, it's a reasonable price, it's good for home use, but not great.Pros:- Each unit can be both router and satellite node. You can split up the units for different subnets if you want. With mutiple units you can have different units doing different functions on different subnets like operating as Lyra mesh, AiMesh or as an access point. It's a very flexible and expandable system.- $87 per router/satellite unit is a good price for nice Asus features like AiProtection and AiMesh. Great for building a secure segmented 3 router home network system using a bunch of these to create segmented subnets to keep my less safe IoT devices separate from my personal private data devices.- 3 small unobtrusive units can cover lots of space in a long house or 3 floors.- Easy set up for non-techs, but also some advanced features for the tech savvy. I like Asus networking products because they give the user that wants to tweak settings lots of adjustability.Cons:- Don't expect really long ranges, especially through walls.- There's no dedicated wifi band for backhaul. So sharing backhaul and fronthaul on the same bands means wireless mesh sometimes is not as good as if you can have wired ethernet backhaul between the units.- Guest network is only available on 2.4 GHz band. Not so great if I want to isolate my 4K streaming TV from my private network stuff. And even with ethernet backhaul, the guest network is kind of slow, especially upload speeds.- AiMesh still does not even support a guest network broadcasting from the satellite nodes, only the primary router. Asus should have fixed this a long long time ago.- Good luck trying to get any real useful help from Asus tech support to fix these problems.