RT-AX88U

I have one. It’s fantastic. But I whitelist devices. I don’t want my young kids having VPN access unless I manually turn it on. It was very easy to set up. I have an ASUS RT-AX88U. Just needed to upgrade the firmware to Asuswrt-Merlin. I don’t remember all the steps, but it was one of those things w

I skipped 6E and 7 entirely because of the same reasons. Even on my “old” Asus ax88u, I’m able to pull 700mbps over WiFi to my MacBook Pro and around 600ish on my iPhone 16 pro. There’s really no reason to upgrade unless you’re going multi gigabit and you really want to upgrade But even at that poin

there is currently no need for wifi 7 other than better range in some settings. wifi 6 is plenty of fast enough. I have the RT-AX88U pro and 800mbs+ per wireless client is a bigger pipe than most can use comsidering 4k only uses 35 mbs and most servers cap downloads shy of 800mbs.

Get a ASUS AX92U or RT-AX88U Pro We have 1 in our house and we get full bars everywhere

First question— do any of your devices even have WiFi 7 capability? At 600mbps, 1100 sqft, and your gaming devices hardwired, I would say something like a Glinet flint 2, or even Asus RT AX88u Pro for the 2.5gbps ports for future needs.

The RT-AX88U Pro is powerful, but your unmanaged switch and mesh might be the culprit. The switch might drop the tags so the mesh node doesn't know which device belongs to which network. Test connecting the TUF directly to a LAN port of the AC88U: if it stabalizes it confirms this theory. Set the 2.

I recommend ASUS whenever people ask. I have a previous gen RT-AX88U which still kicks hard. It only has 1Gbps ports, but can bind two to give 2Gbps. The newer versions support WiFi I don’t have on my devices, and there are a couple VLAN things mine doesn’t do. It has great range and works with mesh

Couple of Asus router recommendations. There's the GT-AX6000 or RT-AX88U Pro, two different wifi 6 routers that have virtually the same electronics inside. If you want to stick your toe in the water with wifi 7, there's the RT-BE96U,, which has been on sale a lot. Both of these routers have given me

Splitting the bands is honestly your safest bet here, especially with a busy household. Bell’s Gigahub 2.0 can handle a lot, but when 10+ devices fight for 5 & 6GHz, even Bell can’t work miracles—unlike Rogers, whose routers seem allergic to multiple connections. Keep an eye on which devices hog ban

Just for the record, I’m in an old neighborhood still on Cox Coax and those are the speeds I’m getting that I posted above. Don’t know if it makes a difference but instead of the Cix modem, I’m using a Nighthawk C1000 cable modem and the Asus RT-BE96U. Although I was using the Asus RT-AX88U before t