ASUSZenWiFi 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, Parental Control, EasySetup, Instant Guard

My ISP decided to make my range extenders obsolete with a firmware update and offered a monthly fee solution to provide new ones. Decided to take it out of their hands and just port forward their router to my own. Bought this kit and so far it works great. I am able to create 3 separate networks. One for stuff I don't want anything else to access, one for guests and one for all of our IOT devices. Love the web interface, made setup pretty easy. Get great signal throughout the house with just the two access points and it is faster than the router from the ISP by quite a bit. Definitely recommend it, will update if I encounter any issues.

I installed 2 of these routers together as one mesh network and a third to create another mesh network with an ET12 Pro.Setup was trivial using the Asus app. For the pair I just followed the instructions inside the box. ~ 20 minutes later a network was in production. The second was simple using the same process.Both networks have been reliable for ~ 3 months now, and by reliable, I mean no downtime other than automatic firmware updates. The routers keep the mesh networks intact and clients happy. So I am happy.Great technology and ASUS support was contacted about firmware updates, one time - I contacted them on my first attempt and my question was answered. I've had ASUS routers, motherboards, gfx cards exclusively for over a decade now, and they are responsive and responsible. And the technology is bleeding edge, so one might expect a bump or two on occasion - but it's rare and you will pay more for it.

needs frequent reboots but strong stable connections.

Works great as satellite nodes for my ET12 Zenwifi mesh system

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.

I’ve had continuous difficulties with this device connecting with Google Nest-cams, especially after a firmware upgrade. It is supposedly under warranty, but Asus support has not contacted me after I sought support for the three node system, which is registered on their website. I know Asus is a top seller with a fair rep, but my experience with the Zenwifi ET9 AXE7800 Triband is not worthy of the $500 I paid for it.

I used to have WiFi that reset and needed to be power cycled every few days. No longer. The signal is strong, consistent, and has an easy to use app.