Hi Xiaofan, really liked your suggestions given out to others so far. Seek your opinion as well
For my set up, (new BTO), unfortunately only 1 Lan port in the living room. Hence router can only be in the DB box. If that is the case, shld I get a lower cost RT AX56U instead and put Zenwifi XD4 in the rooms as mesh nodes? Or the performance of 86U is much better to support the mesh network even if its 'wasted' sitting in the DB box
DB box and Master Bedroom (main usage area) are like opposite ends of the unit
For the rooms, as the TVs also have lan ports, am I able to connect Lan ports -- Zenwifi XD4 --- TV as well? or will the Zenwifi work well with the TV through wifi just by proximity
Alternatively i was thinking to connect the TV to Lan port, and have the Zenwifi work without the ethernet backhaul? (not sure how much degradation in bandwidth will that be).
Current setup is a single AC1200 router.