The Asus ZenWifi AX (XT8) punched through the weird geometry of my home without any problem and delivered. But power isn't the only part of the equation. There were a few hiccups.

Honestly, that makes it very difficult to fault the XT8 setup. It’s Wi-Fi 6 so (for now at least) somewhat futureproof for device connections and scalability of your network.

Since you're using routers that you already own to create a mesh network, you can decide which one is the primary and which will act as nodes. You simply find the router with the best capabilities ...