ASUS ZenWiFi Whole-Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6E System (ET8 2PK), Coverage up to 5,500 sq.ft & 6+Rooms, 6600Mbps, New 6GHz Band, AiMesh,Instant Guard
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- Next-Gen WiFi Standard Wi-Fi 6E tri-band mesh WiFi system boosts speeds up to 6600 Mbps, with coverage up to 5500 square feet
- Ultra-Stable Connection New 6 GHz band ensures stable backhaul connection between nodes as no legacy device interference
- Maximum Capacity New 6 GHz frequency band with wider channels and higher capacity delivers higher performance, lower latency, and less interference.
- More Privacy, Anywhere Instant Guard gives you one-click secure internet access via ZenWiFi ET8 from anywhere in the world
- Commercial-Grade Network Security Lifetime free ASUS AiProtection Pro, powered by Trend Micro, with WPA3 and advanced Parental Controls to protect your home.Maximum Firewall keyword filter : Max 64 rules
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ZenWiFi ET8 is a whole-home mesh WiFi 6E system that combines extremely fast and stable wireless networking performance with simple configuration and elegant design with coverage up to 5,500 sq. ft. Featuring the latest WiFi 6E technology, ZenWiFi ET8 takes mesh WiFi to a whole new level with dramatically improved coverage, speed and stability.
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 2.95 x 6.36 inches
Item Weight: 1.61 pounds
Item model number: ET8 (W-2-PK)
Date First Available: June 16, 2021
Manufacturer: Asus
Country of Origin: China
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Style: White | Tri-Band | WiFi 6 | 2PKs
Pattern Name: WiFi
Believe me: I hemmed and hawed for months about buying this mesh system. "Too pricey," I told myself. And I was right about that. But I tried everything short of spending on this: experimenting with newer, more central router locations. Buying a new, conventional, modestly priced (and decent) ASUS router. Subsequently tried to pair that new conventional ASUS router with an old one (what a exhausting failure that was!). I thought about drilling holes for an ethernet cable to connect a main router with one or two satellite access points. Complained to my spouse about what I was dealing with. Patiently (usually) absorbed spousal complaints about dropped wifi connections. My sanity-- and my spouse-- told me to SPEND THE MONEY. I had already read multiple technical reviews of this product (and it's newer, more expensive 6E cousin). Pored through comparative reviews of mesh systems. I was tempted to bite when Amazon announced that new and recent Echo devices would act as Eero mesh nodes. But then I read the ASUS mesh reviews again. They all agreed that this product was the best of the field. One review saved me about $100 and foregoing the 6e product for reasons I will explain below.* I am satisfied-- no, relieved-- that I bought and installed this mesh system. But as with many things in life, you only get the best results if you put in the work. So read on if you want to know what that entails. Read the tips below. If you are overwhelmed by them and you live in an urban environment: don't buy something this sophisticated. The automatic features may not cope well with congestion and if you don't feel comfortable with the tips, this mesh system won't yield everything it's capable of. If you live in a rural environment with a low likelihood of contending wifi signals from neighbors, then the automatic features may be sufficient. (But I still recommend assigning IP addresses as in my tip below. You might get away without doing it. And you certainly could postpone doing it unless/until you determine you need more trouble-free wifi connections.) POSITIVES: - Smooth initial setup: possibly the smoothest I have experienced in 20 years of home networking experience. You plop down one unit (either one) and let the app do the initial setup. When the app asks for the satellite node, you plug it in on the same table and let the app take it from there. Within minutes, they are paired. - Very powerful signal for both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands - Better choice than the (shinier and more expensive) 6e model at the moment in late 2022 (for more see below*) - 3 ethernet LAN ports on the SATELLIT unit- so you can bypass wifi for some devices in a remote area of the house (of course the satellite is using wifi.) Very few mesh systems have this generous feature. - OPTION to use a wired ethernet backhaul instead of wireless for even more reliable interaction between base unit and satellite. NEGATIVES: - Only 3 ethernet LAN ports on the main unit. Most conventional routers have 4. If you don't need more ports, you don't need to buy an ethernet switch and you won't care. (This is not a major drawback; you can always buy a modestly priced ethernet switch to add more ports to your network.) - system is most reliable if you "do the work." Assign IP addresses to routinely used wireless devices (smart home devices, etc.) - your results may vary but I am finding that occasionally Google Assistant and Alexa voice commands and routines get a somewhat more laggy response than with my previous routers. Not dramatically so. (I'd rather have this minor inconvenience than the poor coverage I experienced with previous systems.) TIPS: - DO USE the mobile app for INITIAL SETUP. It's pretty smooth. But don't assume your work is done when the setup phase completes on the app. - use the web interface for the detailed configuration tasks after the setup phase. The tips below depend on using the web interface. (And if you have ever owned an ASUS router, you'll be using the same familiar web interface.) - Unless you live in a rural area with very little potential for conflicts with neighbors' systems, you very well might want to turn off automatic channel assignments and choose an unused channel (preferable) or less popular channel (if they're all taken) for both bands. - in the web interface: assign IP addresses for as many of your wireless devices as you have the patience and information for. (Most devices will have their MAC address right on the device. Often with the tiniest font size. If necessary use your phone camera to capture a picture of the MAC address for devices and then zoom in the picture for legibility.) Don't leave it to the router to keep assigning ad hoc IP addresses (DHCP). Don't get me wrong; this system will consistently assign unique IP addresses. I realize most people just want everything to automatically fall into place. But if you read customer reviews complaining, you're seeing the results of avoiding the work that precludes problems down the line. Do you have to assign absolutely everything? No. But I would strongly urge you to do so for all smart home devices and streaming devices, smart TVs and the like. (But you certainly can let the guest network take care of itself.) - I do not like the default setting on most of today's routers that assigns the same SSID (wifi network name) to all bands. If you have smart home devices this becomes more significant. Many/most smart home devices like smart plugs, wifi bulbs, smart wall switches, etc. ONLY work on the 2.4Ghz band. You are asking for setup hell and possible future disconnections if these devices get confused when searching for that single, shared SSID name and can't find the 2.4Ghz band. So unless you have a really good reason: use separate names for each band. (The 2.4Ghz band gets a name like "priscilla" and the 5Ghz band is named "priscilla5".) Of course you can enter both SSIDs on your phone. And you can even use the same password for both bands. - BONUS TIP FOR ANDROID mobile users: on your device(s), look at the "View More" or "Advanced" link(s) for the wifi SSID. Instead of DHCP, select STATIC and specify the same IP address you assigned to that very same device on the router. (As recommended in the previous tip.) This might be overkill, but in our case our rather new Samsung phones were very stubborn about logging in to the 2.4G band without doing this. Even if this doesn't happen to you, having static addresses on both ends, dramatically reduces finicky connection problems. *Why not buy the 6e version of the ASUS mesh system? They are designed to use the 6Ghz band for communicating between base station and satellites (backhaul). But a bit of physics here: the higher the frequency, the shorter the transmission distance. So you'd have to place the satellite(s) closer to the base unit than you would for a 5Ghz-based system like the XT8 I'm reviewing. In some cases this might force you to buy one more satellite. But it gets worse: if you have marginal-to-poor communication on that backhaul channel, the devices step down and start using the 5Ghz channel-- which otherwise would be dedicated solely to your video streaming, etc. One reviewer pointed out that the result is you'd have bought a (more expensive) 3-band system and ended up with a more congested 2-band system. And because 6 Ghz has an even shorter transmission distance than 5Ghz it's probable that even your 6e-capable phones, tablets, etc. won't be close enough in the far reaches so they will also tend to depend on 5Ghz anyway. I hope I've given you a solid foundation for your purchase decision and possibly your wifi future.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2022 by MS Globetrotter
Style: White | Tri-Band | WiFi 6 | 1PKs
Pattern Name: WiFi
I own both the Asus AX6000 RT-AX89X and the Asus ZenWiFi AX6600. I originally bought the RT-AX89X hoping that it would cover my entire home. It came pretty close, but there were some areas without great coverage. I don't fault the router for that, I have a challenging house to cover as it is 3300 sq ft, L-shaped with outdoor cameras in different places. On top of that, I'm unable to locate the router as centrally as I might like. So I got the Zenwifi to add on as a mesh network. Asus advertises that these and most of their higher end products can work together to create a mesh system. I set it all up and at first it all seemed to go well, however I noticed that both my wife and my phones would sometimes be connected to wifi but not have any internet. When trying to go to a website, it would just hang like the website was not responding, but then I'd check the wifi settings and it would show the message "connected with no internet". This happened on laptops as well sometimes, but we noticed much, much more often on our phones. The problem could always be immediately solved by switching from 5G to 2.4 or vice versa. It could also be solved by turning off wifi and then back on. Over time I started to realize that this tended to almost always happen when moving from an area that was close to the main router to another area that was close to the Zenwifi, meaning that it was an issue switching between the two. I went through the settings over a period of weeks, changing different things to see if I could fix it. Nothing I tried worked. I contacted Asus tech support and they had me change a bunch of settings, but the problem still wasn't solved. They elevated it to their 2nd level tech support, and said they would contact me. I replied to the 2nd level support's email and sent them files they requested generated by the router, and explained the entire problem in detail again. They wanted to call me but I told them I really don't have the time to take a random call from them in the future that will probably last an hour or two. I work full time and have 2 young children, it's hard to find time for stuff like that. I asked that they send any troubleshooting steps they suggest via email so I can try them when I get a chance. They still called me. And then followed up by email asking me all the same questions that I've already answered again. After a little more of this back and forth, I realized they weren't going to be able to help me so I decided to not use the mesh feature, just run two separate wireless networks. I went into the router settings and couldn't immediately figure out how to do this, so I figured I would online chat with support as this is probably pretty easy to set up. I had to explain an abbreviated version of my issues all over again and told the support rep that I just wanted to have separate wireless networks. Told him I had factory reset both devices but couldn't figure out how to not have them run mesh, as that is the only option it gives you when you log in and bring up the set up screens. He told me it wasn't possible. This seemed kind of crazy to me for routers that are this expensive, with this level of features to not be able to just run independently off the same internet connection. He offered again to escalate it. I asked if he could have them send any suggestions for setting up separate wireless networks by email, again explaining that it's super unlikely they are going to call at a time when I am home and able to spend the time needed on the phone with them. Again, they called my phone, and again they sent an email asking me all the basic info that I had explained multiple times already. At this point I had figured it out myself. I just had to set up the main router with the log in for my fiber internet, then plug the Zenwifi into my computer with the main router disconnected and use the setup screens to make it an access point. Then I could connect the Zenwifi downstream from the main router. I could only access the main router from my desktop or laptop, but in the android app I could switch back and forth between both. And in that app, I could find the direct address for the Zenwifi to type into the browser bar and get access separately. It really wasn't a crazy difficult process and if someone like myself who is only somewhat familiar with networking could figure it out, I don't know why their tech support thought it was impossible. Now that it is set up with separate networks it does work great, although I would have prefered the more seamless experience of a mesh network that Asus advertises. The router interface is very powerful with tons and tons of options. The speeds are very fast and I'm not having issues even though I have somewhere between 50-100 devices connected at any given time (I have lots of home automation stuff and also an in-law apartment with it's own devices). As stand alone equipment I would give these devices 5 stars, they really are great by themselves. For mesh networking, I would give them 1 star as they really don't work well for this. If you decide to go with Asus, their tech support is friendly, but pretty clueless and not very helpful, so I wouldn't expect much in that regard.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 10, 2022 by aglowucannotsee