Wireless Type | 802.11ax, 802.11ac |
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ROG Rapture GT-AX11000, AX11000 Tri-band WiFi 6 (802.11ax) Gaming Router –World's first 10 Gigabit Wi-Fi router with a quad-core processor
Connections | Wireless, Wired, USB |
Frequency | 5 GHz |
Frequency band class | Tri-Band |
Data Transfer Rate | 11000 Megabits Per Second |
Brand | ASUS |
About this item
- 802.11ax WiFi standard for better efficiency, throughput and range
- 11000Mbps WiFi speed to handle even the busiest network with ease
- Accelerate game traffic every step of the way - from device to game server
- 1.8GHz quad-core CPU and 2.5GBase -T port for ultimate performance
- Neutralize internet threats before they hit your network
Product Information
Colour:Black | Capacity:AX | Model:AX11000Technical Details
Brand | ASUS |
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Series | Asus AX6000 |
Item Model Number | GT-AX11000 |
Hardware Platform | Windows 10; Windows 8; Windows 7; Mac OS X 10.6; Mac OS X 10.7; Mac OS X 10.8 |
Product Dimensions | 28.7 x 12.04 x 37.74 cm; 1.86 Kilograms |
Item Dimensions L x W x H | 28.7 x 12 x 37.7 centimetres |
Colour | Black |
Voltage | 120240 Volts |
Batteries | 1 Product Specific batteries required. |
Item Weight | 1.86 kg |
Manufacturer | ASUS Australia Pty Ltd |
ASIN | B07MRD1LDZ |
Date First Available | 22 February 2019 |
Additional Information
Customer Reviews |
4.5 out of 5 stars |
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Best Sellers Rank |
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112 in Routers (Computers) |
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Product description
Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 provides triple-level game acceleration to boost game traffic every step of the way. This lowers ping rate and reduces game latency for the better gaming experience. Port forwarding is critical for gamers, to avoid the awkward situation of not being able to team up with friends. It's packed with powerful gaming optimizations and delivers dominating Wi-Fi performance, rock-solid stability and state-of-the-art security. The ROG-themed Gaming Centre interface provides easy point-and-click control over every incredible feature. Tri-band networking lets you dedicate one 5GHz band to gaming only, so you can avoid competing for bandwidth with other devices on your home network. ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 has a killer feature called VPN Fusion, which lets you run a VPN and an ordinary internet connection. ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 is the first ROG router with Aura RGB lighting, which can display hundreds of colours and multiple effects for a stylish vibe that matches their other Aura-enabled gaming gear. ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 features AiProtection Pro powered by Trend Micro to defend your network from external attacks and threats by neutralizing them before they can reach your devices.
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Republic of Gamers (ROG) is an ASUS sub-brand dedicated to creating one of the world’s best gaming hardware and software. Formed in 2006, ROG offers a complete line of innovative products known for performance and quality.
ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Gaming Router
AX11000 Tri-band WiFi 6 (802.11ax) Gaming Router –First 10 Gigabit Wi-Fi router with a quad-core processor, 2.5G gaming port, DFS band, wtfast, Adaptive QoS, AiMesh for mesh wifi system and AiProtection Pro network security
- Next-Gen WiFi Standard - 802.11ax WiFi standard for better efficiency, throughput and range.
- Ultrafast WiFi Speed - 11000Mbps WiFi speed to handle even the busiest network with ease.
- Triple-level Game Acceleration – Accelerate game traffic every step of the way - from device to game server.
- Battle-ready-hardware – 1.8GHz quad-core CPU and 2.5GBase -T port for ultimate performance.
- Front-line Network Security – Neutralize internet threats before they hit your network.
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GameFirst VROG Rapture GT-AX11000 supports GameFirst V that optimizes ROG devices 3. Gaming packets on these devices is given top priority, so your gaming packets are always at the head of the internet queue! |
Game BoostBoost analyzes network traffic and prioritizes gaming packets, giving games a second level of acceleration for the best possible performance. Game Boost can be activated instantly with a single click on the Gaming Center dashboard, and it supports many popular consoles, including PS3, PS4, PS4 Pro, PlayStationVita , Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Xbox One. |
Gamers Private NetworkROG Rapture GT-AX11000 includes built-in support for the Gamers Private Network, powered by WTFast, which provides private, optimized internet connections to game servers, minimizing ping and latency to ensure smooth, lag-free gaming. |
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ROG Gaming Center: Rule Your NetworkGT-AX11000 is designed with just one mission in mind: Make your gaming network awesome. It's packed with powerful gaming optimisations, and delivers dominating Wi-Fi performance, rock-solid stability and state-of-the-art security. The ROG-themed Gaming Center interface provides easy point-and-click control over every incredible feature. |
Light Up and WinWith exclusive ASUS Aura Sync lighting technology, GT-AX11000 provides ambient lighting that can be synchronized with other Aura-enabled components and peripherals. Choose from over 16.8 million color combinations and ten preset lighting effects. |
Fortified Frontline Network SecurityGT-AX11000 features AiProtection Pro powered by Trend Micro to defend your network from external attacks and threats by neutralizing them before they can reach your devices. AiProtection Pro even protects devices that cannot install anti-virus software — such as game consoles, smartphones and IoT devices — giving you added peace of mind. The lighting on GT-AX11000 can also be set to remind you when attacks arise. |

Advanced Parental Control
ROG GT-AX11000 features advanced controls that let you easily manage children's internet usage and keep them safe online. Restrict internet access during scheduled times and block specific categories of mobile apps and websites. Flexible controls let you create separate rules for individual family members and apply them to all of their devices.
- Internet Activity Dashboard
- Kid Safe Preset
- Schedule Block Time
- Content Filter
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Had to connect 2 routers over Wifi as a LAN connection is not possible (rented house). The 2 rooms (office room, living room) are separated by a gypsum board wall and have the kitchen in between. Distance is ca. 10m. So I got rid of my old Asus AC66U and the cheapskate router provided by my internet provider.
Have purchased this Asus AX11000 and the Asus AX88U which are operating in a Mesh setup:
- Living room setup (AX11000 = main mesh node): 1x 2.4G in mixed mode used for legacy devices, 1x 5G also In mixed mode used for Wifi device connection, the 2nd 5G connection is operated in 802.11ax (Wifi-6) mode only to connect with the AX88U router
- office room setup (AX88U = mesh node): NAS and other office devices attached
Connection speed is of absolute essence for me as my NAS is connected on one side and if I'm not in the office but in the living room I still want great speeds + many apps and devices also run at the same time + I do video editing (= big files + router speeds have a direct impact on copying large video files).
Obviously, right now the Wifi speed of my Mac is my issue (Apple currently has no Macbook supporting 802.11ax - so once this is released by Apple I can finally update my Macbook). I have max speeds of 1300 MBit between my Macbook and the AX11000 (for video editing, I am connecting to my NAS over Thunderbolt 3).
So, now for the AX11000:
- In the beginning (ca. Jan 2020) I had some problems, the firmware was somewhat buggy (had similar experience with other Asus Routers, before)
- Meanwhile the firmware is very stable, I have no problems anymore but one (more later)
- Between the 2 routers I get stable speeds of TX 3266.7Mbit/s and RX 2882.3Mbit/s which I find nothing less than amazing (to be found in menu system log/wireless log) - so there is plenty of room for even more devices on both sides
- From endpoint (Macbook with 1300 MBit/s Wifi) to endpoint (NAS 1000 MBit/s LAN) I get consistent transmission speeds of ca. 70-75 MByte/s
- I have between 10-30 other Wifi networks in vincinity. After finding the best channels with WifiExplorer I have no problems whatsoever with any device not connecting or disconnecting etc.
- Tip: If you set the Wifi Region (under Wireless/Professional) to "United States" you can squeeze a few dB more 5G transmit power out of your router (compared with other regions + while at the same time having lower 2.4G transmit power) to win over other competing Wifi signals in your neighbourhood --> don't tell any of my neighbours, please!
So, finally my all in all verdict:
Positives:
+ Amazing router with super strong signal
+ 3 Signal bands (1x 2.4GHz + 2x 5GHz) - very useful to connect with other routers!
+ very stable
+ many tweak setting possibilities
+ Amazing networking speed due to strong CPU
+ Amazing feature: VPN Fusion: You can connect to several VPNs, at the same time. E.g. you can connect to 1 VPN location with your AppleTV, to another location with your NAS, etc. And now comes the big BUT! - this doesn't work reliably, yet. It has worked in SW# 3.0.0.4_384_8011 and before but is NOT working in the latest SW# 3.0.0.4_384_9165 (from 7/5/2020). I'm currently in touch with Asus support to solve this and I'm confident it will be fixed eventually
The negatives:
- The price, it is of course not cheap...
- VPN Fusion not yet working properly for me, hope it does sometime soon...
- Asus Mesh doesn‘t support 802.3ad link aggregation on the nodes even the router normally (e.g. my Asus AX88U) normally supports it as basically all node settings are automatically overridden/can‘t be accessed in Mesh mode
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Edit 02/09/2020 VPN Fusion works now with the latest firmware but only for PPTP (not for OpenVPN)
Today there was an announcement that Asus ROG Rapturew GT-AXE11000 which already supports the new 6 GHz. Would expect some kind of trade in offer from Asus after their flagship router is obsolete so quickly
The customisations available in the software is amazing and let's me tailor the bandwidth allocation to all my devices. Great features.
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EDIT - after over a month of playing with it - 3 official firmware and 2 Merlin's and number of emails with Asus tech support- today my wifi died completely after upgrading to 384.5329
2.4GHz radio barely works and 5GHz radio is dead beyond any known software repairs/tricks. Sending it back.
Also changing the rating to 1 star to be fair and honest with any potential buyers.

I need to preface that this review targets a very specific audience, namely network enthusiasts, I.T. professionals, etc. Consequently, people who aren't tech savvy, this might be dull for you. My background is in Systems Engineering, and I have been a part of network infrastructure implementation in the past which gave me enough knowledge to be brimmingly stupid.
To the average user, If you just need a router that is easy to set up, and regardless if you will or won’t be using the AiMesh feature, I wouldn’t recommend this router from ASUS in its current state and would instead say to drop down to a ASUS AC1900. All others, read on.
****PREFACE AND USE CASE****:
Please note that obviously as with any persons review, some points are subjective, but I try to omit all irrelevant opinions while still bringing some of my own thoughts to the table (like, my opinionated “pro” of aesthetics). That said, I bought two of these (Asus AX88U AX6000) routers and currently have them set up using Asuswrt-Merlin firmware on 384.15 (previously tested with .14 and .13). I am using amtm, entware, Skynet and YazFi as of this review. I have about 15 devices total including rokus, media servers, laptops, desktops, and smart TV’s. Tangentially, for anyone looking for a great community for ASUS devices, networking setup, troubleshooting, etc, google ‘small net builder forums’ as they have helped tremendously with insight, knowledge, and troubleshooting. My use case is an average home approximately 2,000 square feet. Though my home is small compared to asus’s website regarding house size this router works in, the walls, hallways, and construction of the home warranted two devices since both are on opposite edges of the house. If I had the ability to have the modem cable be installed in the dead center of the house, and I didn’t need to run Ethernet to the desktops, one device would be ample with the given range. This model checks off most, if not all boxes when it works.
****PROS****:
- **Great Range: both 5ghz and 2.4 have excellent coverage. **
I would recommend to play with the antenna positioning to get the best coverage as it does matter where they point. For 90% of use cases, best practices for 2.4 and 5 WiFi warrant channel width to be 20 and 80/160 respectively. But should you require greater range of your 5ghz, drop the width down from 80 to 40.
- **Performance**:
When it works, it *works*. And I don’t even think that sentence gives it enough credit. Performance is excellent and truly unmatched and you definitely get what you pay for—when it works. But keep this in mind when we get to cons and conclusion.
- **Sleek design**:
I like the look of it. Never cared for the "gaming" look some of the high end routers have and I don’t think this router exudes “gaming” in contrast to say, a TP-Link Archer C5400X , but this is personal preference.
- **User Interface**:
easy to navigate and it is laid out fairly well comparatively to TP-Link and Netgear in my personal opinion.
- **Manageability**:
lots of features to manage your home network in an easy way, specifically parental control, firewall, security, media servers, etc. This does not pertain to gaming features and QoS. “Game boost” type features have never been good across any vendor that has their equivocal proprietary software (they are a gimmick) and QoS works against you when you have plenty bandwidth from your ISP (say 300mbps and up.) And if your bandwidth is like 10Mbps, what the heck are you doing buying this router? It won’t do you any good.
- **Physical hardware**:
quad core is a major plus. I do however wish they bumped the memory from 1gig to 2 or 4. Again, the latter point is personal preference.
- **WiFi 6/802.11ax is good**:
MU-MIMO and OFDMA are great additions and advancements, but I don’t think I have enough devices on my network to truly see a benefit. It is worth noting that some people have stated they had issues with WiFi 6 and had to disable it. I haven’t (yet) and hopefully it will become more stable over time. It is after all a new technology implementation, so there are bound to be wrinkles needing ironed out.
****CONS*****:
- **AiMesh not reliable, and keeps resetting both router and node**:
This point is my biggest struggle because when AiMesh works, its awesome. I love it since it makes roaming seamless, has intelligent fail-over, and manages channels and switching appropriately. But holy hell, there is definitely some work that needs to be done because it is not reliable or stable at all. The AiMesh node drops all the time and in doing so, it slows the network speed from 1 gig to 2mbps even though the router is still “up”. Moreover, the user interface becomes unresponsive to the point where even connecting via SSH to reboot it doesn't work (tested on both network medias), so the only alternative is physically rebooting both. I can’t help but think of a situation where someone mounted it high on a wall. What then? Manually rebooting might be difficult. Anyways, once rebooted, it works great for a few hours to a day until I have to rinse and repeat. Even after nvram erase > reset > fresh firmware installation on both devices and on both firmware’s > formatting jffs partitions, it still has persistent issues of the node dropping or losing connectivity. If you search SNB forums, these AiMesh issues seem to be across multiple models which tells me it is AiMesh itself, and not the model specifically.
- **No guest network replication on AiMesh node**:
I don't understand why ASUS doesn't replicate the guest network across the node. It only broadcasts the guest network from the router itself. Like, why? It replicates all other SSID’s and utilizes the network switches, so why didn’t they do this to guest WiFi? That's a huge oversight IMO.
- **No LAN Link Aggregation on AiMesh node**:
The way my house is set up, the node is appropriately placed next to my NAS since its in the living room area by the TV, sound system, streaming setup, etc. I would love to enable link aggregation on the node so I can utilize port bonding on my Synology NAS. Sadly I cant do that because ASUS doesn't support this on the AiMesh node. (Note the reoccurring theme being AiMesh issues)
- **No LAN Link Aggregation on AP**:
Same as above gripe with AiMesh, it would be nice to have this feature enabled in AP mode as the media required is ethernet anyways. Some may argue that this is a useless implementation on both AiMesh and AP since the bottleneck will be the connection speed between the node and Router, but there are scenarios where LA is still beneficial if multiple users are using said device and connected via the AP. That would at-least help with throughput to multiple devices instead of max speed. Either way, if possible it should still be implemented for potential use-case scenarios that allow the customer to decide.
- **NVRAM erase and format JFFS doesn’t always work and resetting is finicky**:
This is for merlin firmware specifically: So I did some tests where I noticed some user settings were persistent after an nvram erase. I first did the erase via SSH running “nvram erase > reboot” which did not clear all user defined settings. The same went with formatting the jffs partition. I ended up having to wipe it multiple times in the order of: hold WPS button and then plug in power whilst still holding WPS for 30 seconds > reboot > hold reset button for 15 > format jffs partition via gui > hold WPS again > reset button. It ended up working, but that’s a ridiculous amount of steps.
- **Settings not saving after hitting apply**:
some DNS settings, including channel width and control channel settings on both 2.4 and 5 ghz don’t seem to stick after reboot. One has to apply multiple times, and reboot. I finally did get it to become persistent after a while, but still it is frustrating.
- **5ghz isn’t enabled by default in smart connect mode**:
After a factory reset, if you setup smart connect mode from the beginning, the 5ghz band becomes disabled and only 2.4ghz works. Not a major deal since you can go into the gui and re-enable it, but its still worth noting. Hopefully they fix this in the next firmware update.
- **Smart connect isn’t smart**:
It significantly reduces throughput on devices switching between 2.4 and 5. I would not enable this setting and just have separate bands altogether.
****THOUGHTS****:
I’m still tweaking and playing with settings, but currently I ended up getting stability and what I want by ditching AiMesh entirely and setting up in the secondary in AP mode with all settings set manually. AiMesh gave me too much of a headache and lacks some of the features that I desired. But currently ASUS is working as I want. Just for process setup, this was done by doing a nuke reset on both devices, upgrading to .15 merlin firmware, setting up minimal network settings initially, and gradually adding features I want enabled over a few hours to ensure proper stability. Per the wireless setup and manual steps, I went with having identical SSID’s between the router and AP, manually setting control channels between the two devices (router channels on both bands are different from AP to avoid congestion), and enabling roaming in system settings to the -65 dbm, and following “minimalist settings” which basically means you disable any and all features that you do not use from default. It only has been two days, but its stable, and I will update as I go if anything changes.
****CONCLUSION****:
My entire problem with ASUS and the AX88u is I see the potential, but the reliability and stability just isn’t there right now with a lot of the features, specifically AiMesh. If you just use it in its most minimalist setup with most bells and whistles disabled, it works great. But at that point one is better off with just buying a cheaper router to begin with and not wasting money on said bells and whistles.
What pains me is the fact that when everything works RIGHT, it's amazing. When all the features work in harmony, it makes me happy and it’s a little awe inspiring to see how far technologically we’ve come. I would personally justify the price of this unit IF everything was stable. But to further beat a dead horse, the reliability and stability isn't there without major manual setup and by contrast, performance is not consistent in the “easy setup” mode for general users, and even though AiMesh is amazing when it works, it has major bugs to the point where I switched modes entirely. Should the reliability and stability be resolved my review would be 5 stars through and through. But I cannot in good conscience tell the average customer that this is “an amazing buy” with all the AiMesh issues at its price point. Either fix the problems stated (recommended), or drop the price of the product.
TL;DR: AiMesh specifically is not stable and not reliable. ASUS needs to iron out the bugs before this unit is worth its price tag.
Please upvote/mark helpful if this review was helpful so more people can see it and potentially benefit from it. Cheers.

Reviewed in the United States on 29 February 2020
I need to preface that this review targets a very specific audience, namely network enthusiasts, I.T. professionals, etc. Consequently, people who aren't tech savvy, this might be dull for you. My background is in Systems Engineering, and I have been a part of network infrastructure implementation in the past which gave me enough knowledge to be brimmingly stupid.
To the average user, If you just need a router that is easy to set up, and regardless if you will or won’t be using the AiMesh feature, I wouldn’t recommend this router from ASUS in its current state and would instead say to drop down to a ASUS AC1900. All others, read on.
****PREFACE AND USE CASE****:
Please note that obviously as with any persons review, some points are subjective, but I try to omit all irrelevant opinions while still bringing some of my own thoughts to the table (like, my opinionated “pro” of aesthetics). That said, I bought two of these (Asus AX88U AX6000) routers and currently have them set up using Asuswrt-Merlin firmware on 384.15 (previously tested with .14 and .13). I am using amtm, entware, Skynet and YazFi as of this review. I have about 15 devices total including rokus, media servers, laptops, desktops, and smart TV’s. Tangentially, for anyone looking for a great community for ASUS devices, networking setup, troubleshooting, etc, google ‘small net builder forums’ as they have helped tremendously with insight, knowledge, and troubleshooting. My use case is an average home approximately 2,000 square feet. Though my home is small compared to asus’s website regarding house size this router works in, the walls, hallways, and construction of the home warranted two devices since both are on opposite edges of the house. If I had the ability to have the modem cable be installed in the dead center of the house, and I didn’t need to run Ethernet to the desktops, one device would be ample with the given range. This model checks off most, if not all boxes when it works.
****PROS****:
- **Great Range: both 5ghz and 2.4 have excellent coverage. **
I would recommend to play with the antenna positioning to get the best coverage as it does matter where they point. For 90% of use cases, best practices for 2.4 and 5 WiFi warrant channel width to be 20 and 80/160 respectively. But should you require greater range of your 5ghz, drop the width down from 80 to 40.
- **Performance**:
When it works, it *works*. And I don’t even think that sentence gives it enough credit. Performance is excellent and truly unmatched and you definitely get what you pay for—when it works. But keep this in mind when we get to cons and conclusion.
- **Sleek design**:
I like the look of it. Never cared for the "gaming" look some of the high end routers have and I don’t think this router exudes “gaming” in contrast to say, a TP-Link Archer C5400X , but this is personal preference.
- **User Interface**:
easy to navigate and it is laid out fairly well comparatively to TP-Link and Netgear in my personal opinion.
- **Manageability**:
lots of features to manage your home network in an easy way, specifically parental control, firewall, security, media servers, etc. This does not pertain to gaming features and QoS. “Game boost” type features have never been good across any vendor that has their equivocal proprietary software (they are a gimmick) and QoS works against you when you have plenty bandwidth from your ISP (say 300mbps and up.) And if your bandwidth is like 10Mbps, what the heck are you doing buying this router? It won’t do you any good.
- **Physical hardware**:
quad core is a major plus. I do however wish they bumped the memory from 1gig to 2 or 4. Again, the latter point is personal preference.
- **WiFi 6/802.11ax is good**:
MU-MIMO and OFDMA are great additions and advancements, but I don’t think I have enough devices on my network to truly see a benefit. It is worth noting that some people have stated they had issues with WiFi 6 and had to disable it. I haven’t (yet) and hopefully it will become more stable over time. It is after all a new technology implementation, so there are bound to be wrinkles needing ironed out.
****CONS*****:
- **AiMesh not reliable, and keeps resetting both router and node**:
This point is my biggest struggle because when AiMesh works, its awesome. I love it since it makes roaming seamless, has intelligent fail-over, and manages channels and switching appropriately. But holy hell, there is definitely some work that needs to be done because it is not reliable or stable at all. The AiMesh node drops all the time and in doing so, it slows the network speed from 1 gig to 2mbps even though the router is still “up”. Moreover, the user interface becomes unresponsive to the point where even connecting via SSH to reboot it doesn't work (tested on both network medias), so the only alternative is physically rebooting both. I can’t help but think of a situation where someone mounted it high on a wall. What then? Manually rebooting might be difficult. Anyways, once rebooted, it works great for a few hours to a day until I have to rinse and repeat. Even after nvram erase > reset > fresh firmware installation on both devices and on both firmware’s > formatting jffs partitions, it still has persistent issues of the node dropping or losing connectivity. If you search SNB forums, these AiMesh issues seem to be across multiple models which tells me it is AiMesh itself, and not the model specifically.
- **No guest network replication on AiMesh node**:
I don't understand why ASUS doesn't replicate the guest network across the node. It only broadcasts the guest network from the router itself. Like, why? It replicates all other SSID’s and utilizes the network switches, so why didn’t they do this to guest WiFi? That's a huge oversight IMO.
- **No LAN Link Aggregation on AiMesh node**:
The way my house is set up, the node is appropriately placed next to my NAS since its in the living room area by the TV, sound system, streaming setup, etc. I would love to enable link aggregation on the node so I can utilize port bonding on my Synology NAS. Sadly I cant do that because ASUS doesn't support this on the AiMesh node. (Note the reoccurring theme being AiMesh issues)
- **No LAN Link Aggregation on AP**:
Same as above gripe with AiMesh, it would be nice to have this feature enabled in AP mode as the media required is ethernet anyways. Some may argue that this is a useless implementation on both AiMesh and AP since the bottleneck will be the connection speed between the node and Router, but there are scenarios where LA is still beneficial if multiple users are using said device and connected via the AP. That would at-least help with throughput to multiple devices instead of max speed. Either way, if possible it should still be implemented for potential use-case scenarios that allow the customer to decide.
- **NVRAM erase and format JFFS doesn’t always work and resetting is finicky**:
This is for merlin firmware specifically: So I did some tests where I noticed some user settings were persistent after an nvram erase. I first did the erase via SSH running “nvram erase > reboot” which did not clear all user defined settings. The same went with formatting the jffs partition. I ended up having to wipe it multiple times in the order of: hold WPS button and then plug in power whilst still holding WPS for 30 seconds > reboot > hold reset button for 15 > format jffs partition via gui > hold WPS again > reset button. It ended up working, but that’s a ridiculous amount of steps.
- **Settings not saving after hitting apply**:
some DNS settings, including channel width and control channel settings on both 2.4 and 5 ghz don’t seem to stick after reboot. One has to apply multiple times, and reboot. I finally did get it to become persistent after a while, but still it is frustrating.
- **5ghz isn’t enabled by default in smart connect mode**:
After a factory reset, if you setup smart connect mode from the beginning, the 5ghz band becomes disabled and only 2.4ghz works. Not a major deal since you can go into the gui and re-enable it, but its still worth noting. Hopefully they fix this in the next firmware update.
- **Smart connect isn’t smart**:
It significantly reduces throughput on devices switching between 2.4 and 5. I would not enable this setting and just have separate bands altogether.
****THOUGHTS****:
I’m still tweaking and playing with settings, but currently I ended up getting stability and what I want by ditching AiMesh entirely and setting up in the secondary in AP mode with all settings set manually. AiMesh gave me too much of a headache and lacks some of the features that I desired. But currently ASUS is working as I want. Just for process setup, this was done by doing a nuke reset on both devices, upgrading to .15 merlin firmware, setting up minimal network settings initially, and gradually adding features I want enabled over a few hours to ensure proper stability. Per the wireless setup and manual steps, I went with having identical SSID’s between the router and AP, manually setting control channels between the two devices (router channels on both bands are different from AP to avoid congestion), and enabling roaming in system settings to the -65 dbm, and following “minimalist settings” which basically means you disable any and all features that you do not use from default. It only has been two days, but its stable, and I will update as I go if anything changes.
****CONCLUSION****:
My entire problem with ASUS and the AX88u is I see the potential, but the reliability and stability just isn’t there right now with a lot of the features, specifically AiMesh. If you just use it in its most minimalist setup with most bells and whistles disabled, it works great. But at that point one is better off with just buying a cheaper router to begin with and not wasting money on said bells and whistles.
What pains me is the fact that when everything works RIGHT, it's amazing. When all the features work in harmony, it makes me happy and it’s a little awe inspiring to see how far technologically we’ve come. I would personally justify the price of this unit IF everything was stable. But to further beat a dead horse, the reliability and stability isn't there without major manual setup and by contrast, performance is not consistent in the “easy setup” mode for general users, and even though AiMesh is amazing when it works, it has major bugs to the point where I switched modes entirely. Should the reliability and stability be resolved my review would be 5 stars through and through. But I cannot in good conscience tell the average customer that this is “an amazing buy” with all the AiMesh issues at its price point. Either fix the problems stated (recommended), or drop the price of the product.
TL;DR: AiMesh specifically is not stable and not reliable. ASUS needs to iron out the bugs before this unit is worth its price tag.
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Adquirí este router en sustitución de un TP link C2600, el cual ya nos estaba dando problemas con el home Office utilizando Teams en 2 computadoras y streaming en 4k. Este router y la tecnología que tiene incorporada no te decepcionaran.
El único pero que le pongo es el precio
