Reply To: ASUS ZenWiFi AX Whole Home Tri-Band Mesh WiFi 6 System Not sure if this is the right place to ask…. I am thinking of upgrading my Google Mesh wifi to the above. Has anyone used this and does it…

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. Ben Park Said:

They’re not actually connected by Ethernet, so I’ll, take your advice and keep them aligned, thank you.

As a complete newcomer to this, are there any specific advantages to moving to the custom firmware? Apologies if this question has been answered a thousand times.

I have 4 x XT8’s currently running 3004.388.8_2-gnuton1.  I just find it better layout looking at the router stats.

There are a lot more advanced features on GNUton.

If you are not going to use these additional features, best to stay on stock.

With GNUton, FW update is done manually.

Both have been equally stable on latest stock FW and GNUton for me.

 

If you use the XT8’s on Access Point mode on GNUton, there is a known bug with the Asus GPL:

XT8 Asus ZenWiFi cannot detect mesh nodes if in Access Point mode · Issue #542 · gnuton/asuswrt-merlin.ng (github.com)

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