ASUS RT-AX88U Pro (AX6000) Wi-Fi 6 Expandable Dual-Band Gaming Router, Dual 2.5G Ports, ASUS Rangeboost Plus, Port Forwarding, Subscription-Free Internet Security, Instant Protection, VPN, AiMesh Compatible
RT-AX88U Pro is a 4x4 dual band WiFi router that offers 160MHz bandwidth and 1024-QAM for faster wireless connections. The RT-AX88U Pro has total network speeds of around 6000Mbps (1148Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and 4804Mbps on the 5GHz band), which is 2.3 times faster than a dual router.
- Next Generation WiFi 6 Enjoy blazing speeds of up to 6000Mbps with the latest WiFi 6 (802.11ax) and 160MHz channels.
- 2 2.5G Ports - Traffic through 2.5G ports has the highest priority; Flexible WAN/LAN port configuration.
- Superior Quad-Core Processing Power - The powerful 2.0GHz, 64-bit Quad-Core processor takes computing power to a new level.
- Extended Coverage - ASUS RangeBoost Plus technology improves signal range and overall coverage.
- Business Security Everywhere - Protect your home network with AiProtection Pro powered by Trend Micro. ASUS Instant Guard software gives you a secure VPN for one-click sharing on the go.
- Easily expand your network Enjoy seamless roaming with rich and advanced features by adding any AiMesh compatible router.
I bought a Netgear XR500 for DumaOS last November absolutely amazing... found it buggy, underpowered (although the advertised VPN feature didn't materialize until late December with a firmware update), very unstable (it crashed once on least) each time. Been using a 4 year old Netgear R7000 router for a week and it was totally reliable) with the company that makes DumaOS incredibly carefree “we fix it when we fix it” and “there's no exact time to fix it we have updates on the way Netgear puts them In the foreground.To be determined soon.So I ran it on an AX88u and brushed it with a Merlin brush.
I've looked at traffic analysis and enterprise routers with the XR500 and all the cliched handles (such as Tomato firmware offerings) and have had bad experiences with some of the basic configuration options. AC88u is just the opposite. From conditional VPN to IPS/traffic analysis/web logging/firewall/features, you usually need separate dedicated hardware for your network that handles everything in a user interface with incredible speed and responsiveness. Anything I consider a gimmick (like Trendmicro's "aiprotection") is the real deal, and unless you're using this dedicated device, you couldn't ask for more to protect your home network. It's very stable (I've changed the router's basic settings and the service has to restart in AsusWRT while transferring 150GB of data from the client to the SSD it's connected to for network/usb speed testing, while downloading massive BFV patch calls on Skype work, my phone had no outages or noise, web interface crashes because I made a stupid change but phone never did!), very fast (use with AS OpenVPN client with all security features enabled (I tax COU to run its resources by reading and writing on USB connected SSD), I can't even express how amazing it was.
I want to see my clients' connection rates, the interfaces they connect to, and most importantly, lifetime bandwidth and traffic volume - and I can do that with just a few clicks, as I do with a Cisco SAA firewall. All you have to do is work according to the properties, they are all available, they are all working.
I also have higher theoretical AC speeds and final AX speeds, and I want the fastest chipset available (the R7000 Nighthawk is pretty benchmarkable, but the 1GHz dual-core processor really struggles to keep up with VPN traffic after about every 5 minutes at full bandwidth every time I try to set up VPN The AX88U has no speed or stability issues there). I could not throttle the CPU in any way without first hitting the Gb ethernet bandwidth limit. When the AX client starts up and I configure the 2Gb total connection, the router may start screaming at some point, but I don't know and really suspect it's sweating at this point.
Oh my god, even on the game page I checked the ping in Battlefield V and Anthem and I'm getting response times that I've never seen with any device I've used before (7-12ms ping, better than 95% of people every time the server I've been on) .
I even use it to manually reserve IP addresses for non-configurable IoT devices to find out all about the network. The XR500 clears the memory every few days, ruining the work you did there. It is very stable and rents any IP address to any device tell it when it connects with no problems. This is amazing. My R7000 was the king of my twenties.