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The ZenWiFi AX Mini (model XD4) is ASUS’s third purpose-built AiMesh Wi-Fi system, after the XT8 and CT8, and it turned out to be the most complete one in my testing. So, the third time seems to be the charm, and that’s the good news. The bad is this mesh …
The ASUS RT-AX3000 (as well as its RT-AX58U variant) is among the most affordable Wi-Fi 6 routers in the market, and that’s the least interesting thing about it. This little Wi-Fi machine delivers a lot more than its compact design suggests. It has a ton of useful features and support …
If you’re the type who gets excited about nice-looking and powerful home networking devices with a ton of ports, the ASUS RT-AX89X AX6000 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 Router will hit you like a six-pack of RedBull. At a glance, you know instantly that this Wi-Fi 6 router, at the very least, …
The ZenWiFi XT8 AX6600 Whole-Home tri-band Mesh Wi-Fi 6 System (model XT8) is a souped-up version of the CT8. Both are part of the new ZenWiFi family ASUS announced earlier this year. The only differences between the two, albeit big ones, are that the XT8 features Wi-Fi 6 and a …
The ZenWiFi AC (model CT8) is not the first canned Wi-Fi system from ASUS, but in my opinion, it’s the first built with the popular AiMesh feature in mind. The mesh is part of ASUS’s new ZenWiFi family, announced earlier this month at CES 2020, including a Wi-Fi 6 version, …
The ASUS RT-AX88U is one of the first Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) routers on the market, and I was quite excited to get my hands on it. So excited, I decided to test it for a second time—I didn’t have any Wi-Fi 6 clients the first time around. So, this is …
The new ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 router looks so similar to the GT-AC5300—if you think ASUS has run out of design creativity with this one, that will make two of us! Indeed, this router is a bulky box with eight massive removable antennas sticking out around the sides—it’s either an …
Today marks my 3rd anniversary of having used the ASUS RT-AC88U almost non-stop. It’s the only router I’ve continually used for such a long time. I originally reviewed this router (in my previous life) at its launch and called it the Nexus of wireless routers. Soon after, I got one …
The ASUS Lyra Trio is not your usual run-of-the-mill purpose-built mesh. It’s the first (and so far still the only) 3×3 Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) Wi-Fi system on the market. And with the support for ASUS’s AiMesh—available with the latest firmware –, it’s, among other things, the most versatile mesh system …
There’s a big, intriguing blue hole right in the middle of the ASUS Blue Cave that catches your full attention the first time you lay eyes on it. But that’s all there is to it. I was a bit disappointed when ASUS told me there was no deep meaning to …
