I am reviewing what I have… ASUS - ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Pro. I know this is a beast but I’m wondering if I made a small mistake with this after talking to some friends.

My house is totally covered by this and the speeds are great. I really have no issues at all with it. I was talking to a friend who has a “longer” house where his router is in 1 corner so he has trouble reaching wifi at the other end. Naturally I recommended a mesh system and sent his family a Nest Wifi 6e Pro which will be delivered tomorrow.

It made me wonder why I bought the router I bought instead of upgrading my older Nest Wifi (from 2019 I think) to also getting a Nest Wifi 6e Pro. And that made me wonder why anyone even makes these routers anyway that aren’t just mesh systems…

Yes, I know the AX11000 can use Asus AImesh proprietary thing but I don’t think it would work as well as a router designed to work around mesh like eero or Nest.

Thoughts? Why does anyone sell stand-alone routers at all? Simply cost?

  • ElevenNotesB
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    1 year ago

    I will and would never use Wi-Fi mesh. All access points always wired (they need PoE anyway) for best throughput and lowest latency (8ms to 8.8.8.8) possible. Wi-Fi mesh is pure marketing.

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      1 year ago

      It worked very well for me for nearly 5 years. Why is mesh marketing? I think mesh is better than a WiFi extender for example

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        1 year ago

        Becaue crappy mesh Wi-Fi will cut your bandwidth in half and add a lot of latency where as a crappy wired access point will just no seerve many clients at the same time.