should have flash sale...11.11 is around the corner...hope you able to get a good and right suitable one. good luck

IMO, after reading all the comments, suggestions and TS's posts about his wifi speed at 300Mbps, double storey house and still under construction, my opinion is to get every room with Ethernet Cable Dedicated directly from your main router. After that, get a decent router up to your allocated budget for your router, personally i will go for Asus. Been using Asus for years. Just got a refurbished AX88U for my room because i have a few devices I want to link up to LAN, 2 PCs, 1 NAS, 1 PS4 and in the future some additional electronics like TV with LAN support, hence why i went with Asus AX88U. It comes with 8 LAN slot and 1 WAN slot. Currently my house have free upgrade from 500Mbps to 800Mbps. I also have another AX56U for my work PC and that will connect to a printer. My room will have a printer also and I plan to connect it to the AX88U too.. lol. Basically better get 2 routers, same model also can, and run a LAN cable up to the first floor router. I have 1 main downstairs, AC86U, upstairs now 2, which is overkill I admit, AX56U and AX88U. Both serving different PCs. See which is your budget, AX56U is more than enough if you have not many people in the house. My house is cause my parents have a few devices each... LOL. so yeah, hence why i upgraded the routers. I just flashed my AX88U to default firmware, it was Merlin firmware. xD

yeah, absolutely run some cables around

you cant just place a few routers down and expect magic to happen

cables, asus mesh with ethernet backhaul, should be a good choice

also ax56u is eol already

but yeah, this is not something cheap and dont cheap out on it
get something powerful, reliable and with good long term support

dont get the mercusys, friend of mine had a mr70x, the wan port died (lightning was not the cause)
did get it replaced via warranty

My first Asus router was the N56U i think. And i bought it 2nd hand too.. Lol. That time it was like RM100, way better than the default TM router, useless like anything. My mom keep nagging me saying the wifi so slow. lol. Ended up with that router for i think 2 years before it KO-ed. Bought another 2nd hand N56U. used for a year and it seems like it was gonna KO, so i bought AC86u that time, bought wrong time, because right after that price dropped drastically.. lol. Bought at RM800, i think a month later was like RM600.. I bought same time with my AX56U, just launched that time, RM600 AX56U. lols. Oh wells. haha. What's done is done. But I am very satisfied with Asus routers. The UI is very easy to navigate. Overall I would recommend Asus. xD

Checking asus quite expensive but they provide good spec too. Need to keep more money. Harharhar

Try Mikrotik. Free Software upgrade untill it breakdown. After 10years you can set up as AP or LTE. Mikrotik stuff hardly breakdown.

This post has been edited by OlgaC4: Nov 7 2023, 10:20 AM

After 10years get 1more latest unit and you can setup auto roaming for your house network using new and old unit.

Yes Mikrotik stuff is powerful and reliable

The problem is it is quite advanced, being a SOHO/Business product

Not sure if TS is willing to put in the effort to set that up compared to just a more plug and play solution of placing down a few consumer routers

Yeap my previous job we are using mikrotik. Will consoder that too if its under my budget.

If got best price surely get this. But need consider my badget if not too high sky price.

Nothings stopping you from using like a Hex(RB960PGS) with EAP613 then, I’d say separate it if you don’t mind a bit of tinkering, you’ll need more power plugs tho if you don’t want to use that Hex

Cheapest AX3000 rated wifi router, but not sure does it works as intended for our ISP. and not much reviews. RM154.



This post has been edited by Omochao: Nov 7 2023, 04:34 PM

Run cable to all room or area. Make sure it is 10Gbps proof With the solid backbone then you can build solid wired or wireless network. PoE is nice and allow you to mount the AP certain location to maximize the coverage. Just another 2K opinion

haha.. or wait for sale.. xD

Meaning to say from the ONU connect with Hex and go with EAP613?

This Hex can support our ISP setup?

Interesting if like that.

Yea got people ask to use POE with AP. Lay the cable surely all location covered with wifi.

If you're going for that route, there is somebody selling 3 units of Ruckus R550 on Facebook marketplace. Price is RM1300, no idea if it's per unit or all 3.

Yes, put ONU in bridge and let Hex do PPPoE upstream, there's a big community of Mikrotik users in this forum

unker also rekomen getting a grandfather clock besides cables...put router and cable together with the clock and it will run till end of time

in future when mesh tech become mature or fiber to the room tech appear then only replace the cat5e cable with cat9

by that time dlink and fiberhome router also can upgrade the firmware to support satellite broadband

Saw that just now. Rm1300 per unit. Got 3 units to sell. Used from their old office and now closed dy.