**Asus Ai Mesh Compatible Router Review**

We recently had the opportunity to try out the Asus Ai Mesh compatible router and set it up in our home network. We started by setting the router in bridge mode and disabling its wireless functionality to prevent interference with our existing good wireless setup.

Upon first impressions, we were struck by how small and compact the router was. It looked like a baby, with no features that would make us laugh or smile. However, as we began to set it up, we realized that this was just one of 16 different models that Asus supports, and that they had sent us three random ones to test.

We decided to stick with our initial setup and configuration, but were impressed by the ease of use of the Asus interface. We navigated through the settings and found the network map feature, which allowed us to search for available Ai Mesh nodes nearby to join our system. To our surprise, it was able to automatically detect our existing routers and suggested a placement strategy.

We placed the router in a strategic location, with a clear view of the surrounding area. However, we soon realized that we had not followed Asus's recommended placement instructions during setup, and that we might need to upgrade to a more powerful model, such as the AC86U, to get the best results.

Despite this minor setback, we were pleased to find that the Ai Mesh system was able to automatically detect and connect to our other router, and that it had successfully created a seamless network. We then tested the system by streaming Netflix and YouTube in high definition, and were impressed by the strong signal strength and minimal buffering.

As we continued to test the system, we realized that it would be perfect for our outdoor hot tub area, where we could set up a TV and enjoy full-quality 4K streaming without any issues. We also noted that the Ai Mesh system was able to handle multiple devices and users with ease, making it an excellent choice for large families or homes with many devices.

Finally, we were excited to announce that Asus is running a contest where three lucky winners can win their own Ai Mesh compatible router by creating a 15-30 second video about their bad internet solution. We encourage our readers to enter the contest and share their own stories about the challenges of poor internet connectivity.

**Ai Mesh System**

The Ai Mesh system is a network of multiple routers that work together to provide seamless coverage and strong signal strength throughout your home. It uses advanced technology, including AI-powered algorithms and mesh networking, to create a robust and reliable connection.

One of the key features of the Ai Mesh system is its ability to automatically detect and connect to other devices on the network. This means that you don't have to manually configure each device or router, and that the system will take care of itself. The system also supports multiple devices and users, making it an excellent choice for large families or homes with many devices.

The Ai Mesh system is also easy to use and set up, thanks to the intuitive interface and step-by-step instructions provided by Asus. You can navigate through the settings and configure your network with ease, even if you have no prior experience with Wi-Fi routers.

**Asus Ai Mesh Compatible Router**

The Asus Ai Mesh compatible router is a powerful and reliable device that provides strong signal strength and seamless coverage throughout your home. It uses advanced technology, including AI-powered algorithms and mesh networking, to create a robust and reliable connection.

One of the key features of this router is its ability to work with other Asus routers to form an Ai Mesh system. This means that you can create a network of multiple devices that work together to provide seamless coverage and strong signal strength throughout your home.

The router also supports multiple devices and users, making it an excellent choice for large families or homes with many devices. It is easy to use and set up, thanks to the intuitive interface and step-by-step instructions provided by Asus.

**Placement Strategy**

When placing the Ai Mesh router in our home network, we followed the recommended placement strategy suggested by Asus. However, we soon realized that we had not followed their instructions during setup, and that we might need to upgrade to a more powerful model to get the best results.

Despite this minor setback, we were pleased to find that the Ai Mesh system was able to automatically detect and connect to our other router, and that it had successfully created a seamless network. We then tested the system by streaming Netflix and YouTube in high definition, and were impressed by the strong signal strength and minimal buffering.

The placement strategy recommended by Asus involves placing the router in a strategic location, such as a central spot or near a Wi-Fi dead zone. This allows the router to provide coverage to multiple areas of the home, and ensures that your devices receive a strong and reliable connection.

**Content Creation Contest**

Asus is running a contest where three lucky winners can win their own Ai Mesh compatible router by creating a 15-30 second video about their bad internet solution. We encourage our readers to enter the contest and share their own stories about the challenges of poor internet connectivity.

To enter the contest, simply create a short video that showcases your bad internet experience, and share it on social media using a specific hashtag. Three lucky winners will be selected at random from all eligible entries, and will receive their very own Ai Mesh compatible router.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso wi-fi pretty much sucks the big one especially if you're trying to get coverage in a large house with a traditional single router slash access point setup and that is exactly why we are here at james's in-laws house today because james stays here in the guest room from time to time and it's upstairs where the wi-fi reception just plain bites so asus sponsored this video where we're gonna show you their ai mesh system where you can take any one of a bunch of different routers in asus lineup and create your own wi-fi mesh for excellent coverage across a very large domicile i've just been looking for an excuse to use the word domicile glad it presented itself so one of the biggest problems with the network setup here is that when james's in-laws got internet service 17 years ago the assumption was that only the kids were going to use it and they would never give a rat spatula about that their newfangled internet there and of course we all know how that worked out everybody uses the internet now so the only place in the house that has coax and the ethernet cables that they actually ran themselves using the same technique that i did like up the side of the house to the study and then to one of the upstairs bedrooms is here in the basement where the kids were living all those years ago so as you can imagine this here combo modem router switch access point thing provided by the isp just isn't gonna cut it okay so to show one of the most problematic locations i'm just gonna jump into bed with uh james here this is a pretty realistic scenario we're both gonna fire up a video to watch on our computers and or phones okay so on james's phone he's actually getting 1080p video but that's on 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi then on your laptop what do you got nada and on my laptop i'm watching this strange parts video on five gigahertz at a magnificent 360p resolution now that seems like it's kind of working well enough you can have two devices running up here and 2.4 gigahertz does have better range but consider this there are many many neighbors out this window here all of whom are not at home right now because it's whatever time it is i don't have my watch on today if they were 2.4 gigahertz would have too much interference and they've experienced this in order to work reliably up here and 5 gigahertz total mess from this distance okay so here at location number two the hot tub um my laptop is connected to five gigahertz and can stream netflix if you can call this pixelated mass guardians of the galaxy 2 i'm not sure that i would uh but james's laptop also on 5g either can't see it at all or when it can see it can't connect to it now you might go okay well why don't you guys just connect to 2.4 g and that's sort of an option but if both of us were connected to it at the same time and heaven forbid the living room tv for example was also running netflix we would quickly run out of bandwidth because you got to remember 2.4 gigahertz does offer better range but it doesn't support nearly the speeds of five gigahertz so if you want to be streaming especially 4k content you want that 5g network working so hot tub is another fail for us now before we go any further i do want to make it clear that in an optimal world you just use a single access point to cover everything because then you don't have any issues when you're roaming between access points and the less complexity you can have in a home network generally speaking the better but if for whatever reason that's not possible like where we are today a mesh network can help you out now ai mesh which is what we're showing here is far from the only mesh wi-fi solution in fact it's not even the only one that asus has but what's really cool about it is that what asus has done is on their newest models they're really high-end stuff like the rog rapture all the way back to a premium model from 2013 they're providing this firmware update that lets you upgrade your network while also breathing new life into your older gear and make a mesh network out of hardware that was just already available out on the market so they've got 16 different models that are supported and these are just three random ones that they sent us to set things up here so we're going to throw this baby in bridge mode and we are going to turn off all of its wireless functionality so it doesn't interfere with our good wireless that we are adding look at this thing it's like right my head grabbed it no nothing not even a chuckle you want a laugh here i want i wanted a chuckle or like uh open a web browser you will be redirected to the asus setup wizard if not navigate to router.asus.com okay i mean james i'm thinking placement wise this goes pretty well with the live love laugh candle right like just kind of okay so now that we've reconfigured this all that's left to do is check out this ball and friggin rog router interface i've never actually seen that before and make sure the internet is working yes all right now we need to mesh it up it's amazing how much of the tooling they reuse all right then we're gonna stick with our theory that staggering our routers is going to be good and we're going to do the same thing upstairs so now we're back at the front of the house and we're just going to oh i would hate to obstruct this uh beautiful original stribe cree james you suck uh and i'm gonna put this right here okay so to get into ai mesh we go into the network map and it says new feature available cool now what we wanna do is go to here ai mesh combines more than one asus router to form an ai mesh system yep yep got it got it um search for available ai mesh nodes nearby to join your ai mesh system hey there's one the ac68u so i think that's the one upstairs and is it going to find the ad6u let's find out it does suggest putting them right next to each other during setup which we clearly didn't do or read the instructions so we might have to go get the ac86u but we'll see all right here we go so we've got a successful ad and a bunch of instructions that might have been good to look at before we positioned everything high in open space between your ai mesh router and your existing dead zone tippity bloppity yup that sounds good all right let's search again and see if we can pick up the other one it's cool that you don't have i assumed we would have to like plug ethernet into those ones and like configure them as nodes but instead it just grabs their default ssids and just finds them oh yeah yeah that's kind of smart actually okay this one is meshed so we are all the way up in the upstairs bedroom again let's go ahead and netflix it up hd youtube it up how are you doing not bad not bad at all okay what resolution are you running at though let's see 1080 on that one sure hit it and this netflix stream looks not bad so this is interesting james's father-in-law came home while we were working on this and said he's been thinking of putting a tv out here by the hot tub so because we're going to have amazing wi-fi signal strength let's go ahead and uh i'm just going to skip to part of this that isn't buffered go ahead and play that just like that bam all you'd have to do is run power to it and he'd be able to get full quality 4k netflix no problem and with something like that tcl tv that you actually did the review of recently that whole thing could be done pretty cheaply very cheaply and that's still playing really well too not bad so james is uh james has wi-fi on the gram not great not something we should figure out how to test in future notebook videos but uh as for mine i'm on i'm on five gigahertz and i'm skipping around in these videos like nobody's business crazy and we're at the furthest point on the property now behind this trailer so this is between us and that access point in the window not bad ah these rocks ow my soft youtuber feet so that's it my work here is done all that remains is to throw away the garbage that we produced and uh oh tell you guys about the opportunity of a lifetime you too can own an ai mesh compatible router from asus just by checking out the link in the video description you've got to make a 15 to 30 second video talking about how bad your internet solution is and three lucky winners that's three not six sorry three lucky winners will get their very own ai mesh router the contest closes seven days after this video airs so go check it out and uh right like and dislike and buy the stuff we featured in subscribe yes and our met merch storeso wi-fi pretty much sucks the big one especially if you're trying to get coverage in a large house with a traditional single router slash access point setup and that is exactly why we are here at james's in-laws house today because james stays here in the guest room from time to time and it's upstairs where the wi-fi reception just plain bites so asus sponsored this video where we're gonna show you their ai mesh system where you can take any one of a bunch of different routers in asus lineup and create your own wi-fi mesh for excellent coverage across a very large domicile i've just been looking for an excuse to use the word domicile glad it presented itself so one of the biggest problems with the network setup here is that when james's in-laws got internet service 17 years ago the assumption was that only the kids were going to use it and they would never give a rat spatula about that their newfangled internet there and of course we all know how that worked out everybody uses the internet now so the only place in the house that has coax and the ethernet cables that they actually ran themselves using the same technique that i did like up the side of the house to the study and then to one of the upstairs bedrooms is here in the basement where the kids were living all those years ago so as you can imagine this here combo modem router switch access point thing provided by the isp just isn't gonna cut it okay so to show one of the most problematic locations i'm just gonna jump into bed with uh james here this is a pretty realistic scenario we're both gonna fire up a video to watch on our computers and or phones okay so on james's phone he's actually getting 1080p video but that's on 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi then on your laptop what do you got nada and on my laptop i'm watching this strange parts video on five gigahertz at a magnificent 360p resolution now that seems like it's kind of working well enough you can have two devices running up here and 2.4 gigahertz does have better range but consider this there are many many neighbors out this window here all of whom are not at home right now because it's whatever time it is i don't have my watch on today if they were 2.4 gigahertz would have too much interference and they've experienced this in order to work reliably up here and 5 gigahertz total mess from this distance okay so here at location number two the hot tub um my laptop is connected to five gigahertz and can stream netflix if you can call this pixelated mass guardians of the galaxy 2 i'm not sure that i would uh but james's laptop also on 5g either can't see it at all or when it can see it can't connect to it now you might go okay well why don't you guys just connect to 2.4 g and that's sort of an option but if both of us were connected to it at the same time and heaven forbid the living room tv for example was also running netflix we would quickly run out of bandwidth because you got to remember 2.4 gigahertz does offer better range but it doesn't support nearly the speeds of five gigahertz so if you want to be streaming especially 4k content you want that 5g network working so hot tub is another fail for us now before we go any further i do want to make it clear that in an optimal world you just use a single access point to cover everything because then you don't have any issues when you're roaming between access points and the less complexity you can have in a home network generally speaking the better but if for whatever reason that's not possible like where we are today a mesh network can help you out now ai mesh which is what we're showing here is far from the only mesh wi-fi solution in fact it's not even the only one that asus has but what's really cool about it is that what asus has done is on their newest models they're really high-end stuff like the rog rapture all the way back to a premium model from 2013 they're providing this firmware update that lets you upgrade your network while also breathing new life into your older gear and make a mesh network out of hardware that was just already available out on the market so they've got 16 different models that are supported and these are just three random ones that they sent us to set things up here so we're going to throw this baby in bridge mode and we are going to turn off all of its wireless functionality so it doesn't interfere with our good wireless that we are adding look at this thing it's like right my head grabbed it no nothing not even a chuckle you want a laugh here i want i wanted a chuckle or like uh open a web browser you will be redirected to the asus setup wizard if not navigate to router.asus.com okay i mean james i'm thinking placement wise this goes pretty well with the live love laugh candle right like just kind of okay so now that we've reconfigured this all that's left to do is check out this ball and friggin rog router interface i've never actually seen that before and make sure the internet is working yes all right now we need to mesh it up it's amazing how much of the tooling they reuse all right then we're gonna stick with our theory that staggering our routers is going to be good and we're going to do the same thing upstairs so now we're back at the front of the house and we're just going to oh i would hate to obstruct this uh beautiful original stribe cree james you suck uh and i'm gonna put this right here okay so to get into ai mesh we go into the network map and it says new feature available cool now what we wanna do is go to here ai mesh combines more than one asus router to form an ai mesh system yep yep got it got it um search for available ai mesh nodes nearby to join your ai mesh system hey there's one the ac68u so i think that's the one upstairs and is it going to find the ad6u let's find out it does suggest putting them right next to each other during setup which we clearly didn't do or read the instructions so we might have to go get the ac86u but we'll see all right here we go so we've got a successful ad and a bunch of instructions that might have been good to look at before we positioned everything high in open space between your ai mesh router and your existing dead zone tippity bloppity yup that sounds good all right let's search again and see if we can pick up the other one it's cool that you don't have i assumed we would have to like plug ethernet into those ones and like configure them as nodes but instead it just grabs their default ssids and just finds them oh yeah yeah that's kind of smart actually okay this one is meshed so we are all the way up in the upstairs bedroom again let's go ahead and netflix it up hd youtube it up how are you doing not bad not bad at all okay what resolution are you running at though let's see 1080 on that one sure hit it and this netflix stream looks not bad so this is interesting james's father-in-law came home while we were working on this and said he's been thinking of putting a tv out here by the hot tub so because we're going to have amazing wi-fi signal strength let's go ahead and uh i'm just going to skip to part of this that isn't buffered go ahead and play that just like that bam all you'd have to do is run power to it and he'd be able to get full quality 4k netflix no problem and with something like that tcl tv that you actually did the review of recently that whole thing could be done pretty cheaply very cheaply and that's still playing really well too not bad so james is uh james has wi-fi on the gram not great not something we should figure out how to test in future notebook videos but uh as for mine i'm on i'm on five gigahertz and i'm skipping around in these videos like nobody's business crazy and we're at the furthest point on the property now behind this trailer so this is between us and that access point in the window not bad ah these rocks ow my soft youtuber feet so that's it my work here is done all that remains is to throw away the garbage that we produced and uh oh tell you guys about the opportunity of a lifetime you too can own an ai mesh compatible router from asus just by checking out the link in the video description you've got to make a 15 to 30 second video talking about how bad your internet solution is and three lucky winners that's three not six sorry three lucky winners will get their very own ai mesh router the contest closes seven days after this video airs so go check it out and uh right like and dislike and buy the stuff we featured in subscribe yes and our met merch store\n"