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Steve Conaway/CNETĪs for the Nest Wifi, the overall average throughout my house was 222Mbps. With Nest, the satellite is visibly weaker than the router. The Netgear Orbi AX6000 system puts out a notably stronger signal than the Nest Wifi - and note that both the router and the range-extending satellite appear more or less equally capable. That's your best middle-ground pick if Nest Wifi doesn't seem advanced enough, but the AX6000 Netgear Orbi system seems too expensive.

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Like the Orbi, that system is a triband mesh router with full support for Wi-Fi 6 and a multigig Ethernet jack - but at $450 (and currently on sale for $400), it costs a few hundred less.

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Next best in this test was the Asus ZenWiFi AX, which clocked in with a whole-home download average of 272Mbps. With an average speed of 288Mbps throughout the entire house, that's the best performance I've seen from any of the mesh routers I've tested in my home. That number didn't drop any lower than 277 in any other spot in the house, and my connection remained stable as I moved from room to room. After dozens of speed tests across multiple days, my average speed in the living room, where the router sits, was a perfect 300Mbps. Some systems do it a lot better than others. That includes a look at band-steering, since most mesh systems like these put out a single network that automatically hands your connection off between the 2.4 and 5GHz bands depending on your location. It's admittedly a bit of a small environment for a mesh test, but it still lets me test average speeds from room to room with the router and the extender in controlled locations to get a comparative sense of how these things perform once you take them home. Our next test adds that satellite back into the action to measure real-world speeds in a real-world setting - specifically, my 1,300-square-foot shotgun-style house in Louisville, Kentucky, where I've got an AT&T fiber internet plan of 300Mbps.

Ry Crist/CNET Real-world speeds and coverage The Nest Wifi's average download speeds dipped down as I moved farther from the living room's router. In my smallish, 1,300 square-foot home, the Netgear Orbi AX6000 system was able to hit near-maximum speeds in every room.