ASUS ZenWiFi BT8 WiFi 7 Mesh Router - Tri-Band, 5.9k sq. ft., 14 Gbps (2PK)

Great WiFi7 router. Easy setup with secondary Mesh unit. Solved my network issues handling (10) video security cameras, along with (3) smart TVs, laptops, desktops, and mobile units.

Very disappointed in product, customer service and trying to get it repaired. This is a 2 unit setup and they couldn't talk to each other 50 ft. down a hallway. Yellow light continuously came on and had to reset everything, it would come back again a few days later. ASUS said they would have to repair the 2nd unit and it would take a few weeks, they would not send me a loner in the meantime. Hard to communicate with tech support always having to be handed off to someone else. I would never go with their products. Ended up dusting off my old Deco unit, simple and works flawlessly.

ASUS ZenWiFi BT8 WiFi 7 Mesh Router - Tri-Band, 5.9k sq. ft., 14 Gbps (2PK) 5,900 sq. ft, really? My house is 3,000 sq. ft. I ended up having to by 2 more Mesh satellites to get coverage, and then it still has issues (but more software than hardware). ASUS seems happy with their antenna design; I don't think they tested it in a real-world way. In my opinion, ASUS software really lets down the whole product line. I wrote about the lack of software for their coolers. Unless, of course, you wish to run the incredibly bloated Armoury Crate. My setup. The main BT8 unit (set up as an Access Point) is in the basement close to where Nextlife fibre optic cable (1G up-down) comes in. From there to my server (Linux-driven for web/email/media). Immediately above is the Living Room. so about 15 feet direct line between devices. I've yet to see the Living Room BT8 connect directly to the Home BT8. These are standard wooden floors, nothing metal/metalic between them. This posting was made from my PC that sits in what's labelled "Master Bedroom". My PC is hooked up to the BT8 using Ethernet. The entire time writing this message, the BT8 is shown as " offline", even though it was working perfectly. So once again, ASUS has created really solid and good hardware; unfortunately, their software is totally under-par. Which is a shame, because hardware like this deserves good software. Before this setup, I was using a similar setup using the AX series from ASUS. That series actually had software that worked, no issues over the 4 years I used that setup. The attached video shows a speed test while the BT8 is shown as "off-line". How stupid is that?

It works great and was not too difficult to setup. However, I bought the “used like new” and it did not behave as described in the setup instructions/app. My daughter found and pressed the reset button on the bottom of both units then the setup was straight forward. Of course there was no mention of that in the instructions for new units.

I upgraded from AX6600 three mesh nodes to the BE14000. This system is very strong . With MLO the mesh signal does not cut in half anymore. Blazing fast and powerful with backhaul . 2 nodes more than enough . Being ASUS router long timer I can say ASUS mastered the mesh systems. I also checked the binding functions and I can assign my devices to any mesh node I prefer and balance traffic. ASUS BE14000 excellent router . Upgrade firmware immediately to get the best performance.

Capable routers, if they could fix the firmware. I’ve had for 3 months and these things have been nothing but a disaster. Every firmware has some major issue with their support just telling you to use one firmware after another and that the next firmware with a fix is coming asap. Well documented issues (see Reddit) where the units broadcast random SSIDs that they shouldn’t and that cause issues with iPhones connecting… will not be going Asus route(r) again anytime soon.

Spent about 5 hours trying to set the router up after purchase. Talked to first tech support who insisted I was doing something wrong in the set up. Then basically gave up. Second technical support worked for about 2 hours with me to conclude the router had an internal hardware issue. Said she was sorry about that and then quickly transferred me to take a survey on technical support experience. Supposedly a great product but disappointing in the support when it does not work.

Easy setup. Speed in my house actually got faster at my devices.

Très bon produit ce n'est pas mes premiers que j'achète pour avoir une meilleure qualité de conection

Performance looks great on paper but that is about it. It is often too slow to be usable. When I first set this up, and intermittently, I get decent speeds. My ISP is 1Gbp and I'll be getting up to 800-900Mbps using speedtest.net over WiFi. However, often it gets unbearably slow and not even restarting will fix the issue. So slow that I can't even watch a Netflix show without it having to stop to buffer periodically. When I test this with a WIRED connection (you read that correctly, nothing over the air), I am getting consistently around 8Mbps. The performance is 100 times slower than my 10 year old WiFi 5 router that I have switched back to. There are a lot of negative reviews (which I should have listened to). I wonder if the positive reflect long term use? If you are just doing some light web surfing you may not notice, but you can do that with a much cheaper router. I had the same issues with the ZenWiFi BD4 and "upgraded" to the BT8 thinking it was because the BD4 was just underpowered. This is almost certainly a firmware problem. I'm using the latest BT8_300610258273. Forums and Asus support itself recommends doing a factory reset after updating (which I've done) but this is extremely tedious, and it hasn't fixed the slow speed issue. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point but it has almost been a year since release and it's clearly still in Beta. Support: Asus support has been terrible. One day I got kicked off five times because of a problem on their end and had to start the entire process over again with a different agent. I may have gotten unlucky but I've read elsewhere people who have had the same problem.

Very fast in single unit mode. Just soso in aiMesh mode with Wifi 7 MLO. However, regardless mesh mode or single unit, its Wifi 6 speed is super fast. Even 2X faster than Wifi 7 MLO which makes me think its Wifi 7 firmware is still not optimized. One thing i dont like is that the aiMesh node requires frequent factory reset after making simple system change like adding 6GHz band to the main network or removing 6Ghz band..etc. So far I did complete factory reset 5+ times just to recover from such system issue. Very annoying.