Asus Zen WiFi AX

Perplexing interface and boxy design a side, this is an appealing mesh option

SCORE PRICE £333 (£400 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/318zen WI-FI 5 DOWNLOADS WI-FI 6 DOWNLOADS Some companies like to create clear distinctions between their router and mesh products. With Asus, what’s striking is how little separation there is between the ZenWiFi AX mesh kit and its regular router equivalent, the RT-AX88U. Granted, there’s not much of a visual similarity. The ZenWiFi nodes are plain, boxy-looking things with a single multicoloured status LED, rather than a row of blinking lights. The units we tested were finished in white, although Asus also offers charcoal-coloured variants that look as if they fell out of the 1980s. Once you start setting up your network, however, the experience is immediately familiar. The interface is identical across the two devices, offering the same huge range of features and settings, splurged across the same perplexing…

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