Asus ZenWiFi BT8 problems

[edu616]

I had to do that a couple times because i screwed up some settings.

Curious thing I noticed that my Kitchen (wired in eth) was for a moment giving 10/100Mbps connection, and my phone connected to it, so I tested and it gave me 100Mbps down and 90Mbps up lol. But after I rebooted all units and re tested (came back with the 2.5Mbps connection) and uploads were crap again. Also downloads never seem to go beyond 400Mbps on all my testing in WiFi ( wired is as intended for download)

 

[Brookie55]

A curious thing I noticed that my Kitchen (wired in eth) was for a moment giving 10/100Mbps connection, and my phone connected to it, so I tested and it gave me 100Mbps down and 90Mbps up lol. But after I rebooted all units and re tested (came back with the 2.5Mbps connection) and uploads were crap again. Also downloads never seem to go beyond 400Mbps on all my testing in WiFi (wired is as intended for download).

This after a reset? Also, very anecdotal, but just casually looking on the net, I see lots of complaints about Asus Zen Wi-Fi units and Verizon FiOS.

 

[edu616]

Did 2 resets tried so many things I'm tired at this point. If this continues I'll just return it lol. Only thing I haven't tried is disabling WiFi and run the test and see what happens.

 

[Brookie55]

Did 2 resets tried so many things I'm tired at this point. If this continues I'll just return it lol. Only thing I haven't tried is disabling WiFi and run the test and see what happens.

That sucks...good luck

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[wrink]

Did 2 resets tried so many things I'm tired at this point. If this continues I'll just return it lol. Only thing I haven't tried is disabling WiFi and run the test and see what happens.

You might consider getting the BT10 instead in case you return the BT8, given how much the prices have fallen. By my looking, buying from Asus.com directly is the cheapest at the moment, FWIW.

Between the BQ16, BT10, BT8 - it seems the BT10 is the most robust at this point, not just based on this forum, but also based on sporadic reports I'm seeing on Reddit. I just hope they keep the BT10 this way, and only improve.

They have also released a BT6, but that's mostly for sub-gigabit speeds - at least for the wired networks (i.e. for the ethernet ports, mostly, with only 1x 2.5 G ethernet port).