ASUS ZenWiFi BT8 Tri-Band WiFi 7 Mesh, 14 Gbps, 5900 m² (Pack of 2), Dual 2.5G Ports, Safety and Parental Control Included, Smart Home Master SSIDs, 4G & 5G Mobile Tethering

Performance looks great on paper but that is about it. It is often too slow to be usable. When I first set this up, and intermittently, I get decent speeds. My ISP is 1Gbp and I'll be getting up to 800-900Mbps using speedtest.net over WiFi. However, often it gets unbearably slow and not even restarting will fix the issue. So slow that I can't even watch a Netflix show without it having to stop to buffer periodically. When I test this with a WIRED connection (you read that correctly, nothing over the air), I am getting consistently around 8Mbps. The performance is 100 times slower than my 10 year old WiFi 5 router that I have switched back to. There are a lot of negative reviews (which I should have listened to). I wonder if the positive reflect long term use? If you are just doing some light web surfing you may not notice, but you can do that with a much cheaper router. I had the same issues with the ZenWiFi BD4 and "upgraded" to the BT8 thinking it was because the BD4 was just underpowered. This is almost certainly a firmware problem. I'm using the latest BT8_300610258273. Forums and Asus support itself recommends doing a factory reset after updating (which I've done) but this is extremely tedious, and it hasn't fixed the slow speed issue. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point but it has almost been a year since release and it's clearly still in Beta. Support: Asus support has been terrible. One day I got kicked off five times because of a problem on their end and had to start the entire process over again with a different agent. I may have gotten unlucky but I've read elsewhere people who have had the same problem.

Very fast in single unit mode. Just soso in aiMesh mode with Wifi 7 MLO. However, regardless mesh mode or single unit, its Wifi 6 speed is super fast. Even 2X faster than Wifi 7 MLO which makes me think its Wifi 7 firmware is still not optimized. One thing i dont like is that the aiMesh node requires frequent factory reset after making simple system change like adding 6GHz band to the main network or removing 6Ghz band..etc. So far I did complete factory reset 5+ times just to recover from such system issue. Very annoying.

It works great and was not too difficult to setup. However, I bought the “used like new” and it did not behave as described in the setup instructions/app. My daughter found and pressed the reset button on the bottom of both units then the setup was straight forward. Of course there was no mention of that in the instructions for new units.

The positive, super fast wifi. I get the gig speed on my wifi 7 devices. The negative, it drops a lot. very short drops that you need to reconnect again. you wont notice if you stream a movie since there is buffering. But on live calls like zoom/teams you get periods of blackout that is super annoying. drops like once or twice a day.

The range was a total miss