Pretty epic router/modem with an obvious bump in internet speeds. Only gripe is that range increase compared to ISP provided unit was marginal. Still pretty good:) Pretty epic router/modem with an obvious bump in internet speeds. Only gripe is that range increase compared to ISP provided unit was marginal. Still pretty good:)

Love this router, finally found a good router that has covered my entire house. The router is pretty easy to setup and the speeds are amazing. I love the dedicated gaming wifi, get a lot of use out of this. Great router, highly recommend it to any serious gamer or home business. Love this router, finally found a good router that has covered my entire house. The router is pretty easy to setup and the speeds are amazing. I love the dedicated gaming wifi, get a lot of use out of this. Great router, highly recommend it to any serious gamer or home business.

Easy to install
Great features and Wi-Fi range

Cons
Has a very large footprint
especially if you have the antennas in the optimal position (on a 45 degree angle) Easy to install
Great features and Wi-Fi range

Cons
Has a very large footprint
especially if you have the antennas in the optimal position (on a 45 degree angle)

we purchased this today as we were tired of having to reset the freebie router from our internet provider that kept dropping wifi and generally performing badly.
...view more we purchased this today as we were tired of having to reset the freebie router from our internet provider that kept dropping wifi and generally performing badly.
plugged this in and watched our speeds triple in the hardest to reach location of our two story brick and block house. i have even managed to do away with the three range extenders that we had to use with the old router!!! while this was not cheap it is certyanly more economical and easier than having our house wired with data cable, i would highly recommend this router for those whom have heavy network requirements and / or difficult wifi areas in their homes. the only down side i can think of is that i should have done it sooner.

Really useful. We have used for Fibre - Thought we would need to get a secondary one, but this does everything we need to for a busy household of 5 adults. Really useful. We have used for Fibre - Thought we would need to get a secondary one, but this does everything we need to for a busy household of 5 adults.

Very simple to setup a highly secure and intelligent wifi network with smart connect handling between the 2.4 and both 5 frequencies. My network now covers twice as large an area as my former flatmate's airport extreme did, in other words I no longer drop off in the lounge, but at the shed or passing next door.
Has reliable trend micro anti-virus built in to the firmware, so you can run without AV slowing down your computers, phones and tablets.
Would suggest no need to setup DDNS for the letsencrypt certificate for authenticated remote admin, it's a nice feature but not needed.
The Asus router app is reasonably good for maintenance, but w...view more Very simple to setup a highly secure and intelligent wifi network with smart connect handling between the 2.4 and both 5 frequencies. My network now covers twice as large an area as my former flatmate's airport extreme did, in other words I no longer drop off in the lounge, but at the shed or passing next door.
Has reliable trend micro anti-virus built in to the firmware, so you can run without AV slowing down your computers, phones and tablets.
Would suggest no need to setup DDNS for the letsencrypt certificate for authenticated remote admin, it's a nice feature but not needed.
The Asus router app is reasonably good for maintenance, but would have to recommend initial setup only on a computer.
The best part about this router is that you have enough ethernet ports for all your wired devices, along with 2 dedicated priority ports and a pair of optionally aggregated ports for NAS which support it (dual gig ethernet).
Firmware updates come frequently, and this should be checked after it is setup and then once or twice a month.

This is well worth the price for an extremely high quality router.

What a terrible product. I have owned and setup probably 20+ wifi routers in my time and never had one that is as difficult or SLOW as this one. At power up it did not respond on the ethernet cable. I had to use WiFI to access its default SSID.
Initial setup asks if you have Internet and lest you choose PPPoE, with username and password. Then it sets up the wifi channel names. Problem one, it is picky on names, so say chossing
'"TheFamily" for 2.4Ghz and wanting TheFamily5G1 and TheFamily5G2 is not permitted, even though it accepts it. Once booted you find there is only "TheFamily5G" as an SSID.

Next is the biggest problem. It as...view more What a terrible product. I have owned and setup probably 20+ wifi routers in my time and never had one that is as difficult or SLOW as this one. At power up it did not respond on the ethernet cable. I had to use WiFI to access its default SSID.
Initial setup asks if you have Internet and lest you choose PPPoE, with username and password. Then it sets up the wifi channel names. Problem one, it is picky on names, so say chossing
'"TheFamily" for 2.4Ghz and wanting TheFamily5G1 and TheFamily5G2 is not permitted, even though it accepts it. Once booted you find there is only "TheFamily5G" as an SSID.

Next is the biggest problem. It asks for a username and password, fair enough. It put these in using a complex password along the lines of @FRkd6YDSu8#45 and it accepted it, then goes to a log in screen. I went to log in and you cannot 'cut and paste' so have to laboriously type in your password. I did this very carefully and was rejected. Did I mis type it? I tried again 5 time then was locked out for 6 minutes. Tried again 5 time, really slowly and carefully. Rejected, locked out. So I reset and tried again. Same issue

Finally I worked it out, the password must be really simple, i finally used password1 and it worked.

Got me to the main screen, but boy is this SLOW. Took at elast 2 minutes to load up. Really uninformative had no idea what WiFI channels were up and if I was even on the internet. Turns out I wasn't. I have had no problems setting up my fibre PPPoE on three previous devices but it would not work with the Asus. I tried changing a setting, hit apply and it took 8 minutes to reboot!!! 8 Minutes!!!!

Still didn't work. Rang support "sorry only 9 to 5 monday to friday" so disconnected and put it back in the box.

Do not go near one of these expensive boat anchors