Replacing an RT-AX88U.

[archiel]

As a result of needing to upgrade my package with my ISP to avoid being moved onto CGNAT I am now on 2.5 Gbps symmetric (from 1Gbps), and am wondering what would be a good replacement.

Our home is a small 1930s terrace house on 3 floors. Both routers are on the middle floor and for full coverage I have the AX88U is right at the front and the AX58U right at the back (tried running the AX88U in the middle on its own, but the nature of the wall and floors resulted to various devices failing to connect.

Looking for suggestions on what would be best to replace the AX88U as the primary router - will probably then run it as the AiMesh point instead of the AX58U, unless the replacement router will cover the whole area.

Thanks Archie

 

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