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?
It’s cheaper to install ethernet with wireless access points, which work better than a mesh network.
Mesh networks should only be used where you can’t install ethernet for some legitimate reason. If you can install ethernet it would be silly to pay more for worse performance.
I’d run a cable across the floors of a house before relying on mesh