ZenWiFi BT6 Tri-Band WiFi 7 Mesh, 9.4 Gbps, 5800 sq.ft. (2pk), 2.5G WAN Port, Security and Parental Controls Included, Smart Home Master SSIDs, 4G & 5G Mobile Tethering- BT6 (W-2-PK)

EASY SETUP BLAZING FAST 5 STARS ASUS ROUTERS ARE THE BEST

This WiFi system is excellent. The app is user-friendly and functional. The setup instructions are straightforward and easy to follow. From unboxing to a fully functional system, it took about an hour. The two-unit mesh network covers my entire home and the surrounding yard effectively. The wireless backhaul is fast and stable. In just one month, I haven’t experienced any dropped connections or issues. My wireless (under ideal circumstances) and wired connection speeds are identical to those directly connected to the modem (550/40 Mbps down and up). The modem has become the bottleneck, and it’s time for an upgrade. Initially, I was considering a lower-tier WiFi6 mesh network, but the Black Friday offers made this WiFi7 package a more attractive choice.are identical to those hardwired directly to the modem (550/40 Mbps down and up). The modem is now the bottleneck and due for an upgrade. I was considering a lower tier WiFi6 mesh, but Black Friday offers made this WiFi7 package a better choice.

Not working, support not helping, worst company ever.

Router was easy to set up, and has offered a more stable and fast connection when compared to my previous WiFi 5 mesh system. The firmware updated automatically during setup, and all security and extra connectivity (e.g. Hotspot sharing) features were straightforward and easy to configure. Each satellite offers more range than my previous router, so I was able to use a two node system where I previously needed three for good coverage. One nice to have would be additional 2.5GB LAN ports, but this router is still a great value.

I've been using ASUS products for a decade at least. Wifi and bluetooth dongles, motherboards, notebooks and routers. Never had any issue until now. Since I've found the Zen Wifi routers, I've never used anything else. Have pairs of XT8/XT9 routers at multiple locations and I've never had any issues. On the contrary. Lots of features, stable and fast connections. Until one of my XT8 died. Instead of simply buying a replacement, I've decided to spend some more and buy a Wifi7 pair. After some research, I've chosen the BT6. And faced nothing but trouble since then. The list of issues is so long that I don't think I'd have enough room here to describe them all here. Let's mention a few: - Horrible navigation experience: have to refresh pages to properly load them. I've disable all security features, forced DNS servers and still facing this issue. Happens to wireless and wired devices connected to a mesh node. Same ISP modems, only thing changed was the BT6 pair. Never had any issues with the XT8 routers - Devices loosing internet access: from time to time a device would show "connected without internet". Some older devices are not compatible with wifi7, that's widely known. The problem is even wifi7 certified devices would show this symptom - The "Smart Connect" issue: devices moving from one node to another sometimes stop communicating. Known to happen on some ASUS routers apparently. But this model has no "disable smart connect". The only workaround to minimize this and the "connected without internet" issue so far was to disable wifi7 and create multiple wifi networks with different frequencies (2.4Ghz , 5Ghz and/or 6Ghz). Which basically defeats the reason for a wifi7 router... - This would actually be funny if it wasn't frustrating: discord sometime throws an error. After researching about it, Discord proposed solution was... "Replace your router" - The BT6 main router was configured for Dual Wan, initially using load balance. As the device comes with AiProtection disabled, and I had it enabled on old routers, at some point I've decided to turn it on. As AiProtection does not work with Load Balance, it throws a message saying it will change Dual WAN to failover mode. Fine, let's do it. Once the router rebooted, the secondary WAN port would not show "Failover" as expected, but "cable disconnected" instead even though no one touched the router. Move the cable to a different port, let's say LAN2, and it shows the cable is connected. Reconfigure Dual WAN to use LAN2 as the secondary, reboot it and it will then show LAN2 as "cable disconnected". Only way to "fix" this was disabling AiProtection, disable Dual WAN, reboot one more time, and reconfigure Dual WAN again (which then works again as expected on both Failover and Load Balance modes) - The boot time for the BT6 mesh node is ridiculous high. It sometimes takes 5-7 minutes to have internet access. And on some occasions the router rebooted twice (blue led, white led, a few seconds, blue led again, white led to finally get online) - And the list goes on... Needless to say, firmware is up-to-date (checked again while writing this) and removing and re-adding the mesh node won't help. Nor resetting it. Or resetting the whole system to factory and re-configure it from scratch. Same issues. As the mesh node takes a long time to boot, testing and troubleshooting this has taken hours and hours. Setting up a XT8/XT9 pair wouldn't take more than 10 minutes. My last hope is to replace the BT6 mesh node with the remaining XT8 node and see what happens. It will disable the 6 Ghz frequency but at this point I don't care anymore. I'd use just the remaining XT8 unit if I could but unfortunately signal gets too weak in some areas. Maybe using the XT8 as main router and one the BT6 as a mesh node, I don't know.... ASUS should either fix its firmware ASAP or remove it from the product line. But this particular model does not deserve to carry the ASUS brand. At least I'll be able to relocate one of the XT9 routers in a few months and get rid of these horrible BT6 routers. *** UPDATE 10/12/25: a few days ago ASUS released a new firmware. The Release Notes "highly recommend" a factory reset. Did a backup, the factory reset, restored the backup and the routers simply went crazy... No device would navigate even though both ISPs were connected. A new reset, manually configured everything one more time and got nothing but the initial symptoms. I then disabled Wifi7 and separated frequencies again as it would minimize those issues. For the first time since the routers were first installed I was able to get stable connections and navigation for a couple of days.