I am reviewing what I have… ASUS - ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Pro. I know this is a beast but I’m wondering if I made a small mistake with this after talking to some friends.
My house is totally covered by this and the speeds are great. I really have no issues at all with it. I was talking to a friend who has a “longer” house where his router is in 1 corner so he has trouble reaching wifi at the other end. Naturally I recommended a mesh system and sent his family a Nest Wifi 6e Pro which will be delivered tomorrow.
It made me wonder why I bought the router I bought instead of upgrading my older Nest Wifi (from 2019 I think) to also getting a Nest Wifi 6e Pro. And that made me wonder why anyone even makes these routers anyway that aren’t just mesh systems…
Yes, I know the AX11000 can use Asus AImesh proprietary thing but I don’t think it would work as well as a router designed to work around mesh like eero or Nest.
Thoughts? Why does anyone sell stand-alone routers at all? Simply cost?
I used mesh wifi in a house of mine as I didn’t want to run cables through 3 floors. It served it’s purpose to the various smart devices around the house and I didn’t have issues with latency in gaming. Sometimes the mesh hotspots would crash or de-sync which would cause some headaches (especially from the inept ex) if I was out of town. Next home I will probably run wires with APs. I think mesh WiFi is good for standard home use but for power users a wired connection will always be better\less headache.