I replaced a trio of TP-Link Deco mesh routers/access points from almost five years ago with a pair of Asus units. It's weird, wifi is still evolving after all of this time. As it turns out, three was overkill, because I can put two in opposite ends of the house, connected by ethernet, and the whole thing is covered.
There were a few motivating factors. First, the Decos have really crappy logging. I got interested in logging when Spectrum started sucking a few weeks ago, with random, but brief-ish dropouts in the evening. The Asus logs are a little more verbose, and I can feed them into a robot for detailed event analysis if I have to call support. Also, it's possible I might be able to get bidirectional gigabit speed if I get the right person at Spectrum on the phone. There has always been fiber to our house, but they use RFoG (radio frequency over glass) for reasons unknown to me. In new construction, there's little reason to do that. Anyway, the old routers can't quite go that fast if we do get real fiber.
Infrastructure stuff is the most boring electronic gear. I mean, unless you nerd hard on that sort of thing, and I have friends that do. I'm surprised at how many routers I've had. I have one that's about 11-years-old that I need to recycle. It's not secure at all because of the older protocols it uses.
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