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expiredanarkie13 posted Oct 13, 2021 2:50 PM
ASUS AX5400 Dual Band Mesh WiFi 6 Gaming Router
$200
$230
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Get 15% off a new modem, router or modem/router combo and Geek Squad® Home Wi-Fi Setup service when you bring in any of these devices for recycling. Simply take your old networking device to Customer Service in a Best Buy store, and you'll receive a coupon for 15% off the current price of a networking device or whole-home networking system, plus 15% off Geek Squad Home Wi-Fi Setup.
Not that Eero units are bad, they are known for being great and simple units. Google is still on Wifi5, if I remember, so a bit of a step back if you have WiFi6 devices.
Systems like these are for those that want more control on their routers. Fine tuning. Faster speeds with better management of concurrent connections. Also, you have to be careful with mesh systems unless you know your needs well. Getting one without a dedicated backhaul (Google is your friend) means big dropoffs on the node connected devices. Fine if you plan your setup well enough.
I've had 2 mesh setups before. Samsung AC1300 (not very powerful and handoffs between nodes weren't clean, killing connections). Then the Netgear AX1800 Nighthawk 2 unit setup. Worked fine for a year, but then it didn't like my upgrade to gigabit fiber. Wouldn't get my speeds, had to mess with far too many settings. When I finally got it where I wanted it, it lost my settings. Went to check for new firmware and it hung, causing me to hard reset the whole system. I went to look to call Netgear, but apparently, after 90 days they expect you to pay for ALL support. They can simply be in my "do not send business their way" list after that.
A bit of a novella, but I hope this helps. The main takeaways I can give you is this:
Know your house, and how well signals travel - My house was built by the ancient Mayans apparently and signal does not go as far through the walls.
Know your needs - lower demand and lower speed bandwidth, you can get away much cheaper than this or the others listed.
Don't give Netgear any business - Sorry Netgear, it's been a good run, but to charge to talk to support? No thank you. I usually am the support for people I know, and I don't charge anyone I know or anyone they know for helping them. A good company supports their products better than 90 days. At least for the warranty period (1 year) is a reasonable minimum.
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Super consistent speeds, can run multiple video meeting and watch 4k tv.
The key is Triband.
I have a dual band Velop setup but it is all wired backhaul, so i thought there isn't really a need to upgrade to triband, but maybe you can explain to me otherwise.
It is in the basement almost in the center, I get excellent coverage even in 2nd floor corners. Also V shape coverage doesn't serve the neighborhood.
With 88U noise level used to be up to 91dBm, now maximum is 64dBm
What I learnt, 5400 has a low end SoC and if you enable all AiProtection features, QoS and logging it may struggle. Same issue with 88U. It is still a decent router but not beefy enough.
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I have a Nest cam on the end of my garage - they're super touchy with wifi and require strong signal all the time or they drop video - so the single Nighthawk in the center of my house wasn't good enough. Ended up going Eero, but I'm ready to ditch them and they're locked down nonsense, and mesh in general if possible.
Guess it wouldn't hurt to buy and try...
Super consistent speeds, can run multiple video meeting and watch 4k tv.
The key is Triband.
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Recycle and save.
In store only.
Get 15% off a new modem, router or modem/router combo and Geek Squad® Home Wi-Fi Setup service when you bring in any of these devices for recycling. Simply take your old networking device to Customer Service in a Best Buy store, and you'll receive a coupon for 15% off the current price of a networking device or whole-home networking system, plus 15% off Geek Squad Home Wi-Fi Setup.
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I have a Nest cam on the end of my garage - they're super touchy with wifi and require strong signal all the time or they drop video - so the single Nighthawk in the center of my house wasn't good enough. Ended up going Eero, but I'm ready to ditch them and they're locked down nonsense, and mesh in general if possible.
Guess it wouldn't hurt to buy and try...
That's one reason I'm appreciating Asus right now. The ability to go from stand alone to mesh without replacing the original router. I know others do this as well now, TP-Link I think. But Asus seems to have the better hardware and support for this round.
I have a Nest cam on the end of my garage - they're super touchy with wifi and require strong signal all the time or they drop video - so the single Nighthawk in the center of my house wasn't good enough. Ended up going Eero, but I'm ready to ditch them and they're locked down nonsense, and mesh in general if possible.
Guess it wouldn't hurt to buy and try...
When I upgraded to an AX router, the range was about 3x more. I no longer needed 2 routers and my speeds max out at 450 but average 300 everywhere in the house. I don't have any AX compatible devices except my phone but every single device had a much faster connection, slowest being my 7 year old laptop at 170mbps.
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That's one reason I'm appreciating Asus right now. The ability to go from stand alone to mesh without replacing the original router. I know others do this as well now, TP-Link I think. But Asus seems to have the better hardware and support for this round.
My only concern about this router is that it's dual band, which means I'd need to wire backhaul it or lose the 5Ghz channel in an AI Mesh setup (assuming I get a tri band for the main router). But I'd really only do that for the Nest cam, where 2.4 is more appropriate anyway.
When I upgraded to an AX router, the range was about 3x more. I no longer needed 2 routers and my speeds max out at 450 but average 300 everywhere in the house. I don't have any AX compatible devices except my phone but every single device had a much faster connection, slowest being my 7 year old laptop at 170mbps.
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