Recently bought a ASUS TUF AX6000 from Shopee for rm 400 brand new. Fantastic coverage and able to support my 1GBps package without issue. Main reason to get this is because it have 4x4 transmit 5Ghz band and 4x4 2.4GHz Band. It have 6 antennas. I have no faith in TPLINK

Sadly is sold out. Probably stock clearance sales. Cause this model if not mistaken came out in 2023.

https://my.shp.ee/L4861JE

Alternatively can consider TUF AX4200 pricing around rm 420-450. It’s a 3x3 antenna band configuration which is good. BlackTubi had review this model and give very positive feedback on performance. Normally those AX3000 provided by ISP are just barebones specification with 2x2 antenna bands which limits its potential speed and performance. Those days we thought Broadcom chipset is the best turns out Mediatek ain’t bad either. Worst experience I’ve had is TP-LINK AX20 AX3000 using Intel chipset.

Yeah, ASUS have one of the best router in the market. It’s AiMesh is one of the most user friendly setup where you can use any model router to pair AiMesh unlike some brand require the same model.

Try play around with the 5GHz channels. If you require wide area try use 80Mhz for few walls as 160MHz gives you the best speed throughput but short range. Usually I use channel 60 or channel 160 for DFS.

With just 2x2 transmission unable to push higher speed. And 6Ghz is almost pointless for big space. It only work best in very short distance without wall blocking signal. Higher frequency gives us larger packet transmission but lose out on distance cause the higher the frequency the shorter the signal is. Thats why all IoT devices uses 2.4Ghz heavily.

Dual 5Ghz band is good for AiMesh wireless setup as the second 5Ghz act as backhaul transmission for mesh router to avoid sharing bandwidth with first 5Ghz which bound with all your devices. Honestly I won’t spend 2K on a router when gaming. I’m happy with my current TUF AX6000 setup. Cause my AiMesh is link via Ethernet cable for backhaul usage. Besides my PCIE WiFi card is Intel AX210 which is WiFi6E way sufficient.

Not really, even how many IoT devices you had, most of it connects to your 2.4GHz band. Modern WiFi6 router design to handle around 256 connection.

My own preference against using LAN due limited bandwidth to 1Gbps even though provide the lowest ping ms but somehow WiFI6 protocol able to mitigate this issue hence WiFI6 especially the ones to connect to pci express lane able to max out 2.4Gbps (requires 160mhz band) and my gaming experience had zero issue. Besides less one cable to worry about lightning damage. Although my modem router are protected by Belkin SurgeMaster.