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…

[LarryR]

So my question of the day… I have been having issues with my Asus XT8 randomly rebooting. Sometimes it goes 3 days between, sometimes only a couple of hours… Nothing showing in the logs that points to what the issue was. Frustrating as can be since no rhyme or reason and I work from home and we stream all TV stuff…

I’ve decided to do a hard reset following the WPS button approach. I left all the defaults but did the following:
1) Set my SSID to my existing one with same password so all my devices would reconnect
2) Set my wifi 2.4 channel to 11, as that is best in my area and also locked it at 20mhz width
3) Set my wifi 5 channel to 48, and kept 20/40/80 channel width
4) Using wireless backhaul on wifi 5-2 with 160 bandwidth and locked to channel 177

Assuming things stay smooth and I don’t get reboots (which to me would indicate a hardware issue at this point – purchased in March 2022 v1 units)… Are there any SUGGESTED changes to other settings to improve “anything” or just leave things set as is? I honestly don’t remember what I had tweaked over time and have bounced back and forth between official ASUS firmware and Gnuton ones with dirty upgrades so the WPS reset seemed like a good idea to rule other things out…

Now…. If the hardware is bad – what’s the consensus recommendation on reasonably priced 2 node Mesh these days? Asus XT9, ET9? Or something like the TP-Link Deco EX75 or EX75-Pro?

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