ASUSZenWiFi 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)

I've mentioned this before. I'm an old network guy of 30 years that's kind of retired now. I was running two networks at the house, one for the house and family and one for my office which I just deprecated, installing MoCA for back haul replacing my Office network. In the house I am running the Asus BQ16 Pro and have been for over a year. One problem in the beginning but it has been rock solid ever since. In my office I am running the Asus BE98U, a beast unit that's been running for over a year with no issues. My office 98U is now part of the overall network mesh but I had a particular use case where both the 98U and BQ16 were a waste and overkill enter the BT6. I received it yesterday, paired it with the mesh and was up in 10 minutes. Great little unit that fits the requirement I had very nicely. Good wireless coverage and worked as advertised out of the box. I have run equipment from TP-Link, Orbi, Linksys and now Asus. The mesh of different routers works flawlessly and being a network person the customization options are fantastic for me. Very happy with the purchase.

First purchase for my ZenWifi mesh. I had an older Asus router that had Aimesh capabilities and I bought this to increase my coverage. It has only one 2.5 WAN/LAN port and I could not connect it by Ethernet to my older router which has a 2.5 WAN port. I really wanted to take advantage of a 2.5 Ethernet backhaul. So I purchased the BT8 to use as the main, and connected the two and I couldn’t be happier. Easy to set up. No dropped signals and covered a lot of my house when it was the main router. As the node, it easily connects with my phone and laptops where it now resides on the top floor. 6Ghz fast! I recommend this as a standalone, but if you wish to have a 2.5 or 10 Ethernet backhaul this will not be the model you want. As a node, this works very well. Minus one star for the lack of a second 2.5 port. You may save a little money by purchasing a BT6 and BT8 instead of a pair of BT8’s. As the combo works great for me.

Purchased a 3 pack for a 2500 sf 2 story house. Coverage is great. No dropping at all. My printer wouldn't connect to the wifi 7 but the Asus router created a separate wifi 6 SSID it can use and it prints from all household devices. No other issues.

Purchased a set of two to upgrade an old Wi-Fi 5 router. The ASUS app and web interface settings are top notch and allow for good flexibility and customization like DNS and manual channel selection. That is where any positives end.These things CONSTANTLY disconnect clients randomly. Cannot understate how frustrating it is to be online with a device and get hourly random “network connection has dropped” errors while loading something. If lucky to not get an error, pages will often stay stuck loading partially or take 30+ seconds to load. Turning off MLO, DFS, all of the AIProtection features does not improve stability. The firmware and software implementation is just poor at this point.ASUS has only released two firmware updates in several months for this model and stability has not improved at all. These are not ready for prime time. Recommend to avoid.

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.

Works better than the Costco brand. Costco brand gave us 550 mbps this one provides 1gbps. It might go faster but I have 1G service.

Not sure why everyone says the speeds are slow, makes me wonder if they have checked thier modem and it's abilities. Personally I know thats where my limiting factor is since I run a nighthawk cm1200 which caps each lan port to a gig. All that said I've ran multiple tests and im happy with the results. Set up was slightly annoying but may have been because I didnt have the router main and node close enough initially.All and all very happy and looks like its time for a new modem to utilize this set up properly.