Good idea - they are both alloys but different grades. I've not seen any galvanic corrosion issues since, just that the powder coat on the hydrofoil has gone dull.

@@MaxTennant Yeah the two alloys aren't a problem... they're about the same hardness, just that one's plate alloy and the other's cast. It's the stainless steel bolts that cause the problem... they're much harder and in a marine environment they'll "steal" molecules from softer metal. It starts as discolouration (tea staining) and then becomes pitting below the paint. It's the same reason anodes work... they're a softer metal intended to be sacrificial.

It's either a product defect or false advertising, because that what it says it does on the box. You choose.

You just connect that to the WAN port and use it as the internet modem. You then use the Asus setup for your WiFi network. You can't mix mesh products as the WiFi points need to communicate to each other to pass devices between the access points to maintain good signals.

@@MaxTennant Thank you. One more question. If the router on the sim card (2.4 GHz, with a worse network standard and LTE: Downlink 150 Mbps / Uplink 50 Mbps) will work from then on as a modem, and the router will be equipment with better parameters (including 5 GHz), i.e. zenwifi ac cd6 - then Will the signal sent via wifi be analogous to the ac cd6 standard or the worse router (modem)?

You'll have a strong WiFi signal that is fast - but your internet speed will be limited by the performance of your modem.

@@MaxTennant So I will also have a 5GHz network. Only internet speed will be limited, right?

Oh someone jumped the queue when IQs were being handed out! If people buy a no-drill product, you can assume that they wanted to avoid permanent modifications to the lower unit. If that product then causes a 4mm gash down to length of the cavitation plate, it hasn't worked as advertised and failed. I guess you're the kind of person who buys a chainsaw to cut vegetables and complains to the cabinet maker when your bench is cut in two? Seriously?

Diesel

Put my deposit down last week. We only get gasoline in US for some reason; I’d much rather have a diesel (I already own/adore an X5 35d)

Pretty uncomfortable. They plan on changing the rear seat for the production model.

Yes - it feels like they adopted a few of the bad traits of the old defender. Never a comfortable long distance tourer. In the UK you don't travel long distances like we do, nor long straight roads.

How do you get access to the road shows to take a look?

i was gonna say 8 holes is plenty forget the 2 front ones!

Fair question - I want to maintain speed at range. With the two wired nodes I achieved that. The four Google WiFi nodes (3 of which were wired) didn't.

Is it still running good? Heard there are issues with it.

@@HardCorps88 mines running fine using 6GHz back haul I had to play with the positioning a bit 6GHz is even more picky about obstacles than 5. Considering trying wired back haul if I get the time

I've not had any issues with firmware. The only issue I had is where using the QoS feature, my LifX WiFi smart lights in the house would take a long time to respond. I don't use QoS now. I set mine to auto reboot twice a week, it's a feature in the app. Not sure if I need to, but after one firmware update, it fixed an issue with devices not connecting. But there seems to have been a number of updates since - the app has been updated too. I don't use wireless back haul, so can't comment. I have a lot of devices and want to strongest possible connection. The only thing I would really like is. I have around 40 devices connected to the network, including smart home gadgets. I cannot list the devices in the order of those using the most bandwidth. Google WiFi had this feature. I used it most of the time to locate a device that was taking internet bandwidth OR block a device, so I could kick the kids off the net, get them outside. Overall, I'm still happy with the solution - however, I need to install a mesh system at my father's place, he doesn't need anything this fancy, but I'll look for a solution that has a good app that I can remotely manage everything - the Google app was good for that, so I'll investigate the lower cost Orbi options again.

@@MaxTennant Thanks Max for your detailed feedback. Appreciate your time. I have seen reviews about time it takes to boot up/start when power goes off So wanted to know if you have seen long start up /boot times like Orbi systems take. Happy to know you are happy with the product so far. At the end these are expensive devices and we should be happy investing so much money into it :) Also if you are looking for lower cost options i have seen some Orbi models (752) which are better for max 600 mbps and also support WIFI 6 which i believe also has remote management.

Yes - the connections are stable. But I had to stop using the QOS feature, as it made my smart devices very slow. I also found that it helps to restart the devices weekly, but there is a feature in the app to do that on a timer.

I'm having unstable internet connection with all my devices (iPhone, fire tv, iPad, Android). It's connected wireless, but no internet. After about 30 minutes or so, it works again. All of this happens randomly. I tried updating the firmware, but with no luck. Did you have any similar issues?

Once setup the asus id flawless. Even after power outages it just resets and away you go.

Yes NBN 100. I'll go for a deduction. I genuinely needed it for my endless video calls. Interestingly, I had issues using QOS - it made my smart lights intermittently non responsive, or delayed. I upgraded to 40mb upload and removed QOS, all good now.

Yes - I have the house cabled so it's wired to the second node. As it was with Google WiFi. Although, when I used the wireless back haul mode during setup, it worked well, better that Google WiFi.