Key is wireless mesh backhauling.

With 6GHz backhaul, it's now possible to do 10Gbps. File transfer from/to NAS will be quick.

For you to take advantage of this, you probably want to have a fat pipe to begin with. Anything less than 1Gbps from your ISP. you will be probably better to stick with older WIFI standard.

I'm looking forward to get this: https://dongknows.com/asus-zenwifi-bq16-pro-review/ to see if I could finally get near to 1Gbps wirelessly on my secondary mesh.

FYI. The BQ16 is available for purchase.

I am surprise we get the 6GHz Pro version. But I am not complaining.

There seems to be a Triband version of BQ16 (called BT10) instead of quadband.

It should presumably be cheaper. No news on price yet, might be worth losing one 5Ghz band if the price is right.

Where is the setting to enable MLO? "Smart Connect"?

I bought a pair too. Using 6Hz backhaul because I hate the idea of the router randomly assigning bands to my non-BE devices (which was all of them). And I am just getting OK 6GHz backhaul signal strength. With my 1GBps internet bandwidth, I am getting around 8xxMbps. Which isn't bad.

My issue is, heat seems to degrade the performance. And BQ16 runs hot if you place it in a room without running ceiling fan/aircond.

This post has been edited by ray_: Jul 29 2024, 01:15 PM