I use four Eero Pro´s 2nd gen (Wifi 5) to cover our farm.
We get internet at the farm via radio link with an Ubiquti Litebeam antenna on our house talking to the ISP´s antenna about 4km way which has fiber. The speed we´re sold is 40/20 mbits, while we in real life get about 36/18 with ping ranging from 12-18 ms on wifi.
I like the simplicity of the Eero but wish I could be in a little more control of our network settings and have been looking at the Asus XT8. It's overkill when it comes to the speeds we get from the internet but I would like to be able to split 2.4ghz and 5ghz which you can't on the Eero´s.
But the important thing for us is proper QOS, like the SQM-implementation on the Eero´s since our line is not the fastest. I tried both Netgear Orbi AC3000 and TP Link M9´s and both failed properly handling network load in prioritizing things like MS Teams, our home phone over VoiP and other things deemed more important than streaming or downloading a game. So how does the XT8 handle prioritizing of network traffic when under load. I haven't found what kind of QOS-implementation it comes with out of the box.
We get internet at the farm via radio link with an Ubiquti Litebeam antenna on our house talking to the ISP´s antenna about 4km way which has fiber. The speed we´re sold is 40/20 mbits, while we in real life get about 36/18 with ping ranging from 12-18 ms on wifi.
I like the simplicity of the Eero but wish I could be in a little more control of our network settings and have been looking at the Asus XT8. It's overkill when it comes to the speeds we get from the internet but I would like to be able to split 2.4ghz and 5ghz which you can't on the Eero´s.
But the important thing for us is proper QOS, like the SQM-implementation on the Eero´s since our line is not the fastest. I tried both Netgear Orbi AC3000 and TP Link M9´s and both failed properly handling network load in prioritizing things like MS Teams, our home phone over VoiP and other things deemed more important than streaming or downloading a game. So how does the XT8 handle prioritizing of network traffic when under load. I haven't found what kind of QOS-implementation it comes with out of the box.