Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Asus XT8 is an excellent mesh system and a very polished product. I've had it for about 2 weeks now and have had zero issues with stability. I am getting wifi speeds of about 400 mbps throughout my house (about 2000 sqft but in a very elongated rectangular shape). For reference, my max WAN speed is about 450 mbps. I also have a USB flash drive connected to the main router which is acting as a home server. The router itself is very compact and attractive. It should blend in with most decor. The black variant is much sexier and I would have preferred that, but unfortunately BestBuy does not carry that version. Overall I am very satisfied with the product so far.

I've had them set up for about 3 weeks. Speed seems the same but getting dropped less than my old AC2900 router. They've gone down twice and had to be unplugged and restarted to work again. Bestbuy shipped quickly and did a good job of sending alerts.

Really helped to extend our Wi-Fi coverage for a 3 level house. We are going to purchase one extra extender for a workshop area, perfect that it allows this option all on one network.

Great features, great performance but too bad the stuff stopped working after not even a year. Corrupted file system. As I was unable to register the product on the ASUS web site I could not even get some help. The filesystem corruption led to random connectivity loss. Too bad and a real waste of money. Stay away from it!!!

Works very well on our 2000 sq foot plot of land and house. No real issues cool features. Sometimes can ve trucky on setup on another AP

The ASUS ZenWiFi AX was very simple to set up thanks to clear and understandable directions. Once set up, it was easy to connect my devices. I have found that my WiFi coverage on the first floor of our home to be excellent. Most noticeable, I connected my 4K OLED 65” screen using an Ethernet connection from the node and noticed an immediate increase in performance. My only disappointment is that the coverage really isn’t as good as detailed in the product description; my coverage on the second floor is fair, not good. Also disappointing, I want to purchase one more node to boost the second floor but that does not appear to be an option.

Was excited to get this item which was on back order for more than two weeks, but unfortunately, the ASUS AX mesh network did not work as I had hoped. Set up was not as easy as I thought it should be, but once I did get it up and running, the wifi system continually dropped my wifi. It literally would work for approx 30 seconds, then the LED would blink blue for a few minutes (which signaled the node was communicating with the main router) and then become a white light (system all good) for 30 seconds - nevertheless, never had a consistent connection, even after resetting the units several times.

Works like magic. With this i never have to worry about internet connection on the second floor of the house. It covers everywhere and no lagging

I purchased this mesh system after looking at multiple options. This hands down was a breeze to set up. The updates are solid and I have had no issues with the performance.

A little pricy but worth it so far. Easy setup Definitely improved coverage. No more dropping issues Great features. I recommend

I replaced my Netgear mesh with this system because my wifi was getting spotty in places. ASUS has had a strong signal everywhere - no interruptions.

Excellent signal and speed with incredibly comprehensive settings and options. The only Mesh router that offers DLNA streaming from a usb hard drive.

This mesh system has been a total waste of money. The device is not "smart" and devices are constantly dropping. I have devices constantly trying to connect to the main unit in the basement Vs the mesh unit that is on the same floor MAYBE 10 feet away. I've tried adjusting db setting limits and even binding devices to AP I want yet the unit is constantly trying to switch items to the main unit with considerably weaker signal strength. Even when units stay on the closest/strongest AP they constantly lose connection and I have to either reboot the device or AP to get them back on. I've tested using the free Router Verizon gives and even on devices two floors away I get better connectivity then with this overpriced piece of junk I wish I would've discovered how bad this device is before I was out of my warranty period. And yes, I've updated the firmware, half the time the upgrades make things worse.

Added this pair to my AXE-11000 and the setup couldn't have been simpler. the whole package is expensive, but it's worth not screwing around.

When this is working it has great speed. The ability to have an ethernet backhaul with my MoCA is awesome and the reason why I initially purchased this unit. I had issues with my Sonos system, Chromecast, and dropped network during my two week period with this device. Setting up the device were also fincky because the app wouldn't connect to it reliably. I returned this and got an Orbi instead.

I didn’t know what speed on WIFi was until I paired this with a new Motorola router. I’m seriously, a 10x around the speed around my 3600 sq foot home

This ZenWiFi Mesh is amazing! This is my second set of mesh WiFi products from ASUS, and I have t been disappointed. One piece of advice, set it up to reset once a day.

Cons: - 2 of my Nest themostats got disconnected 3-4 times a day. I had to return XT8 and went back to my Asus CT8 which works well with Nest thermostats!!! - App does not show online status of a device in real time. As an example, I powered off my iPad for couple minutes, app still shows it online. There is no option i.e. refresh devices status. Pros: - Web UI provides lots of options to configure router. - Good range coverage and speed

The product works great, but not as fast as I expected. It is fast, but not much faster than my old Orbi setup.

I had purchased this system to replace a linksys WRT / w Eero set as wireless AP when I decided I wanted to upgrade to Wifi 6 AX and wanted a USB port to set up a NAS on my local network using an external hdd. The set up was easy and fairly straight forward using the Asus app and using the hdd to share files on my network has worked well after figuring out how to set up the shares. So why the low stars? I have had constant disconnects from my IoT Kasa devices, my phone will randomly lose wifi connectivity and force me to restart the wifi to reconnect and my work laptop which runs through a Cisco client VPN slowed to a crawl and at times becomes almost unusable. None of these were a problem with my previous set up. I would consider myself fairly network savvy and have previously run many different routers using WRT & Tomato firmware but I've never had the issues I've had with these. I've always liked Asus routers prior to this set and even have an old RT-N16 sitting in a box somewhere. Unfortunately I waited to long while testing these and can no longer return them and at this price it's hard to just shelf them but I can't recommend anyone using them.