ASUS ZenWiFi AX Hybrid Powerline Mesh WiFi6 System (XP4) 2PK – Whole Home Coverage up to 5,500 Sq.Ft. & 6+ Rooms for Thick Walls, AiMesh, Free Lifetime Security, Easy Setup,…

I bought this, hoping to have saturated coverage for our new building. The initial setup was not bad. I hooked it up, connected my phone, synced the devices and named the wireless network. That was about all the good there was.
I did not want this operating in router mode and so I set about finding the AP mode. Once I found it, I was informed by the app that AP mode can’t be selected from the phone. I connected the laptop and attempted to bring up the browser page. The GUI was like molasses. Every click took up to three minutes to process. Once I found the AP mode option and checked it, it was a dead end. No change was made and in fact when it did register, I was given and error.
I called tech support which was pointless. I was barely able to understand the tech and he was clearly reading off a poorly prepared script….he didn’t know what AP mode was.
Save yourself some pain, buy a couple good routers and cascade them both in AP mode, done.

Speed is consistent and does not drop.

Routers look great with LED color change indication for specific functions, excellent Processors and Memory, Gigibit WAN and LAN, Wifi 6, MIMO ready and backwards compatible with older wifi, supports 20/40/80 MHz bandwidths and WPA3-Personal with WPA2, 4 antennas each unit with Beamforming, the signal strength and coverage is strong and wide it seems. This unit has 3 options for Backhauling data between the 2 routers I find this impressive, the Backhaul Powerline HomePlug AV2 MIMO data connection option is good if you can’t run an ethernet cable between the 2 and have a home with a proper green grounding wire run from the connected power outlet to your circuit breaker box and grounded properly in the circuit breaker box, this way you get data over all 3 wires HomePlug AV2 MIMO in the outlet instead of just 2 so more data bandwidth. The user interface administration software is excellent in Asus routers in my opinion, lots of configuration possibilities if you need to get complex, lots of VPN options and Security options but if you use QOS that data goes through a 3rd party thats really not good IMHO. If your not so experienced it the software has an easy walk through connecting software front end to do so, ASUS configuration software is either from the routers or via phone app to router both are excellent. Has 2 ethernet ports that can be subnetted separately with dual WAN support but no WAN Aggregation, this could easily be used for casual gaming (though these don’t have the extras that Asus gaming routers do) and multimedia streaming, and any home connection utility devices setup all at the same time. 1 USB 3.2 Gen port that has support for many formats and functions even Apple time-machine. One problem I have encountered and it seems one other reviewer has incountered is that there can be disconnect issues with some laptops, now this seems to be the laptops issue not the Asus routers at least in my case, the older dell latitude 2012 E5530 laptops 3 of them I own that have the Broadcom BCM43XX wifi chipset these models have been know to have problems and Dell is at fault, these seem to disconnect once in a while no matter how close to either router they are, they are running windows 10 pro with up to date software and with Dells software drivers too. Other computers I have 2 Apple computers one from 2010 another from 2017 and one Acer windows 10 with Qualcomm Atheros chipset AR58WB222 and 2 iPhones 1 New and 1 4-years old they all stay connected properly, only the Dell E5530’s have issues, whats strange is the older 2010 Apple computer has a Broadcom BCM43xx chipset like the Dells but stays connected.