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 will and would never use Wi-Fi mesh. All access points always wired (they need PoE anyway) for best throughput and lowest latency (8ms to 8.8.8.8) possible. Wi-Fi mesh is pure marketing.
It worked very well for me for nearly 5 years. Why is mesh marketing? I think mesh is better than a WiFi extender for example
Because SDN setups are significantly better than Mesh
Mesh networks use bandwidth to make the network… That bandwidth could be utilized for your traffic instead of sustaining the network.
Mesh networks are generally for lazy people who cannot do cabling. That’s why most consumer network products are mesh crap.
Mesh networks use bandwidth to make the network… That bandwidth could be utilized for your traffic instead of sustaining the network.
Mesh networks are generally for lazy people who cannot do cabling. That’s why most consumer network products are mesh crap.
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.
