ASUS RP-AX58 AX3000 Dual Band WiFi 6 (802.11ax) Range Extender, AiMesh Extender for seamless mesh WiFi; works with any WiFi router

I almost returned the item. I originally set the ASUS WiFI extender up in "safety mode" two meters from the router. I then moved it to another outlet. It was not recognized by the router when it was more than two meters away from and two floors below the router. It didn't solve my problem. I needed to connect my generator so that information was transmitted to the maintenance company and the outlet to the generator was in my basement. After some internet searching and help from my son we worked out that I could set up the extender using the mesh system which is incorporated in my ASUS router. (Also an Amazon purchase). It works perfectly. Lesson learned. It pays to get good equipment and keep any peripherals in the same family. Excellent purchase. Worth paying a bit more for good stuff.

My primary router is an Asus RC-AC86U. It's great but I had a dead spot in my bonus room. I'm skeptical of WiFi extenders, but I took a chance on this. Setup was easy and it fixed the dead spot. It's been very stable. I couldn't be happier.

I bought this to use as a Mesh Hub for my ASUS RT-AX82U Router. My ASUS Router is centrally located in my home and serves very well to every corner of my home... with one exception... inside the Garage and especially just outside the Garage Door (outside driveway). I have a Chamberlain MyQ system with cameras inside the garage and the Video Keypad (which is just outside the garage where keypads go), and my signal in the garage was about 3-out-of-5, but the Video Keypad was like 1-out-of-5 and kept losing signal constantly (making the keypad camera basically useless).I figured the best Mesh to go with my ASUS Router would be another ASUS Mesh hub, and it looked like a simple straight-forward installation, so I bought this RP-AX58. What I thought would only take a few minutes turned into a few hours of head scratching... some of it may well be my fault, but the directions couldn't have been more muddled if everything doesn't work flawlessly from the start (which it almost certainly will not).There's 3 major ways to install this (maybe a 4th too), you can use your computer's browser to access your router directly, or you can use TWO different apps... which oddly enough isn't really well explained in the instructions that come with the RP-AX58. The first App that they will send you too (ie: Step-1), is probably the worst option and something you want to avoid... as it's an EXTENDER APP and will setup your Mesh Hub as an EXTENDER not as a MESH... DON'T DO THIS (ie: avoid recommended step-1... bad on you ASUS). Later on in the instructions it links you to a second app, which is the ASUS Router app... which really is just a mirror of using your browser to access the router directly... so if you want to setup as a MESH (not an extender) it doesn't matter if you use the Router App or directly access your Router through your browser... it's two ways to do the same thing. Here comes the fun...1) Go to your AI Mesh tab and select + Add AI Mesh Node2) it will now scan for your AX-58, find it, you select it, and it sets it up!3) You're now ready to go... plug it in anywhere you want and see if it does the job for you (White light is strong signal, Yellow light is weak signal and Red light is no signal).Except...If everything isn't perfect (and it probably won't be) Step 2 will spin and sit and spin, then say "no device found". UGH!This is where the instructions start suggesting "update to the latest firmware"... and if you can't hook it up wirelessly, you'll need to hook it up directly to your router with an ethernet cable, find it under the clients, and try and do a firmware update from here... then reset the AX-58 pushing the tiny pinhole reset button and try again... which I did... and... "no device found" UGH!I spent a lot of time stuck at this point... couldn't figure out what was wrong. Eventually as it turned out... my RT-AX82U Router didn't have the latest firmware, even though it was set to automatically update it's firmware. I had to manually download the latest Router firmware and install it old-school to update my router. Once both my Router and the AX-58 had the latest firmware... ONLY THEN WAS IT FOUND WHEN ADDING A NEW MESH NODE and I was finally able to proceed... I can't vouch for if this happens with other brands, but if you're doing ASUS Router to ASUS Mesh Node, make sure BOTH THE ROUTER AND THE AX-58 have the latest firmware, or they won't link-up.Once the AX-58 is setup as a Mesh Node, you can unplug it and plug it in anywhere you want and wait for it to pickup a signal and see if it does what you want it to do. For me, I knew I had a moderate signal inside the garage but the garage door itself prevented a signal from reaching my video keypad just outside the door (at least from the Router's position inside the house). I plugged-in my AX-58 to a powerstrip I had attached to the side of my Garage Fridge, and got a strong signal there. My Garage Door opener went from 3-out-of-5 signal to 5-out-of-5 and my Video Keypad outside the Garage went from 1-out-of-5 to 3-out-of-5 and now stays connected!I am now VERY PLEASED with the AX-58 doing the job it needs to do, but the installation wasn't nearly as smooth as I had hoped it would be, due to the poor misdirection of the instructions guiding you to setup as an Extender instead of a Mesh, and not being clear on setting up the latest firmware both on the AX-58 itself AND the need for the Router to have the latest firmware... if one or the other isn't up to date, it probably won't connect as a Mesh during setup.Bottom line, if you want to use this as a MESH HUB and you know how to get to your router from your browser, you don't need to download any apps at all. Just make sure both your router and AX-58 have the latest firmware!

from the top:I was connecting this as a repeater, not to an AI mesh router. this is how that went:it connected right up but I couldn't access the settings using the unclear useless instructionsI finally did so consulting chatgpt ai which gave me the access address plus the username and PW that asus doesn't supply that you need if you are setting it up using the phone app, which is, by the way, admin and admin, but it's not published anywhere on the device, nor in the instructions!chat gpt isn't the greatest either so that took me hours.at 1 point, I went to the Asus website and downloaded the router finder thing forWindows and ran it. The app found the equipment but then I couldn't access the settings because the app said the router was on a different subnet mask than my computer. but i checked and they were the same!Eventually, by hook and crook, I got access to it's page, initially trying that app one more time which mysteriously worked for a change and then i went to the settings and changed them , turning on security, etc. I changed it's 2.4g and 5G settings to network name and my passcode.I thought all was fine, except this POS doesn't stay connected to the network no way, no how whether it's 2 feet from my network hum of 20 feet.once connected, unplugging and plugging back in a single wifi security camera from my system will knock it offline and it won't reconnect until I recycle it by unplugging it and replugging it back in, sometimes several times!but then it goes back offline and won't reconnect without unplugging it and plugging it back in again.but that is not all! at one point I tried to push the pin in and factory reset it, which is supposed to take 15 seconds. I held it for 0 seconds BUT NOTHING EVER HAPPENED! the light didn't change to yellow or anything. it just kept blinking blue (connecting mode).the Asus help line stays busy and the video at amazon to click on at amazon for this purchase IS A VIDEO FOR A DIFFERENT BRAND!reminds me fo the last Hewlett Packard printer I bought: total junk, new out of box that never stayed online for more than 1 day and quickly not at all, like within the first week and had non existent support.

It's so easy to set up; it literally took me 10 minutes, even with a firmware update, to connect it to my WiFi mesh system. Another reason I like this product so much is its easy integration, now my whole house plus outside is covered.