ASUS WiFi 6 Router (RT-AX68U) - Dual Band Gigabit Wireless Router, 3x3 Support, Gaming & Streaming, AiMesh Compatible, Included Lifetime Internet Security, Parental Control, MU-MIMO, OFDMA

If you have a high-speed broadband connection, your cheap router (mine was a TP-Link) is probably robbing you of the speed you are paying for. I have a 1-gigabit subscription but was only getting about 650mbit using the the TP-Link. This is the problem with $60 routers, it seems. As soon as I plugged in the Asus RT-AX56U AX1800 I ran a speed test (ethernet) and I'm very pleased. I'm now getting the full 1-gig that I pay for.Also, you can split the 2.4 & 5GHz bands into 2 different SSIDs if you want. The router's webpage setup is easy.Highly recommended. I can't comment on the Wi-Fi yet, I'll update review later.Later: Wi-Fi works great. I have a new laptop that has the Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 card with Bluetooth 5.1. It immediately connected using the 802.11ax protocol at 5 GHz. Good range and fast speed. Phone connected on the 2.4 GHz band and slightly older laptop connected via its 802.11ac card. All are working well. Strong and steady signal using this router. No complaints.If you use a VPN service, there is a place in the router's setup for you to enter the provider's settings so that all your devices are protected online through the router.One caveat: Like most routers these days, it comes with WPS enabled. WPS is a security vulnerability. After upgrading the firmware, I went to wireless settings, the WPS tab and disabled WPS. Any hacker kid with the right software can crack your network if you have WPS enabled. So it's best to turn it off. WPS doesn't really do anything except make it easier for people to get on your wi-fi with push-button access. In the router's settings you can switch the WPS button on the router to be a wi-fi on/off button. Very handy when you want to quickly disable your wi-fi.I wish I could speak to more of the router's features but there are so many that I am not familiar with. If you're a network guru, you'll probably love this router due to the many options you have, most of which I don't know how to use so I just leave them alone. I thought I would have to pay much more for a router strong enough to get my full speed but, thankfully, I was wrong about that.

I just got a higher level Asus router to replace my 3 month old Linksys (don't get me started on that piece of trash). I was impressed how well it worked and made the decision to get another Asus router and try setting up a mesh network. I have three separate routers to cover my property. As I moved around, I would have to manually switch between the routers. Having a mesh network would resolve this problem. Looking at a number of online reviews and a bunch of YT vids, I settled on this unit.A few vids, including the Asus ones, showed quite a few steps to set up the Mesh network. It was way easier in actual practice. Maybe they upgraded the system. I connected the router to my computer using an ethernet cable and connected the cable modem. Called up the configuration screen. It asked me if I wanted to set it up as a mesh node or a router. Chose node. Then it told me to hook the computer back to the main router and leave this one powered up and close to it. After the main router powered back up, I logged into that config screen and clicked on the AiMesh Node button. Then I clicked on the Find AiMesh node button. After a short wait, it detected the new router and asked if I wanted to use it as a mesh node. Yep. Short pause then it said it needed a firmware update.Clicked on Administration -> Firmware Update tab -> Check for update. Told it up update the node. Let it do its thing. Router (now node) power cycled. Back to AiMesh screen, told it yes I wanted the detected device to be a node. Waited a bit. Then that was it.The only hiccup was that my device wouldn't switch until the signal dropped below -70 dBm. Still a "good" signal per my WiFi signal strength app, but really bad when trying to transfer data. From a YT video (search for "Behfor") I adjusted the threshold to -60 dBm. Wireless button within the Advanced Settings section. Professional tab. Scroll down to the Roaming Assistant line. Enable and change the number in the "Disconnect clients with RSSI lower than :" from -70 dBm to -60 dBm. Apply.Wonderful. I can move around and my phone moves from node to router and back transparently. There is a little delay when it switches radios, but streaming music doesn't stop playback. Totally happy with my Asus routers! The Linksys it still under warranty, so I'll try and get them to fix/replace it. But even if I do get it fixed, I'm selling it off. Asus is so much better.

I've been using the AX1800 (the cheapest in the family) for about a week now. I'm not a gamer, but we do stream a lot of TV/Movies and it's held up really well. Wifi6 works with the iphone 11 although I don't have any other devices. i have Dual WAN setup with an old android phone there in case Spectrum goes out and so far everything seems pretty good.Setup was easy, plug in the cables where they go and look for the asus ssid on your computer (or plug your computer into it with an ethernet cable) and then it'll step you through getting it up and running. The basics are really done for you. The tip though, with many cable providers its best to unplug/turn off your cable modem for 10 mins or so before plugging it into the new router so it forgets the mac address of the old one. Could just be a spectrum thing, but it was perfect and started working immediately.The bad, I've got a hard drive plugged into the other (USB3) port and have it setup for time capsule, but it's unusably slow. Plugged in with ethernet (gigabit) it took 14 hours for the initial 150GB backup and then a day later let me know it was corrupt, repeating caused the same issue. No biggie, I'll plug that into my raspbery pi, but would have been nice to have it off the router.That's about it. Everything works well and seems to cover our 3000sq ft brick house pretty well, and in the future I can always add another asus router and use AiMesh.