Been using this for the last couple months. So far, it's exactly what I need and even more than I hoped for. Just the one router provides full-home coverage without any "mesh" additions, and I've had precisely zero connection drops for any of my devices. Security is easy to setup and quite robust, configuration options are plentiful, and speed is a big step up over what I had before.
Do you have to pay a monthly subscription? Or is it free if so how much? I really need a new router for better speeds but I’ve never used a gaming router like this so im not sure what to expect
There are only two things i need from routers 1: Those 12 of my 6 neighbours to stay outside of my apartment with their signal. 2: Mine to get through 5 walls.
the ax 11000 is a great router and if you dont get enough coverage fuck it there's a solution ai mesh a room where i used to get 7 to 8 megs a seconds i now get like 290 rest of the homes normal walls get pretty much max speed of 500megs a second so just for my room im going to buy a second asus router because i have a quest 2 vr headset and i wanna stream smoothly from my pc
@Takeshima antivank HK loves Trump2020 You really should get a new router if you are using a ISP-provided one though. Probably not this one unless you have a lot of connections at once. Really the only part that bothered me from this video was the lack of recommendations for less expensive alternatives.
See the problem with these kinds of routers is most of them don't have a coaxial input. A majority of the United States runs off of coaxial internet running into their house. If you don't have a router that supports it you're going to have to use a box from your ISP that you're going to have to pay for anyway
@@Dtr146 You're talking about a modem. This is a router. A modem talks with the ISP and establishes a connection between a single device in your house and the ISP servers via coax, while a router splits that single connection across all your devices and actually routes all the traffic to said devices. You always need a modem and a router (unless you have a single computer and no wireless devices at all), even in combined units.
Damn dude, I produce music, mix tracks and studied music production and composition for three years.. I didnt notice a problem with the audio before your comment.
@@chrisnordby6131 I noticed it immediately, but I am wearing headphones, I think if I was listening on speakers it wouldn't have been as noticable. For the record, I am not an audio snob, my headphones were 15 bucks from Walmart, as long as they don't sound like absolute garbage, I'm fine with about anything
Being able to turn off the LEDs is an important detail for me and everyone who lives in a small apartment where the router is near the bed. I've often had to put black tape over LEDs of hardware - which just feels so lame when you've bought a new product.
If the app doesn't show you anything, you may want to check if the app has access to your location while using the app. For whatever reason, WiFi Analyzer by farproc doesn't prompt you on newer Android versions. I didn't know until I tried another WiFi analyser app (WiFi Analyzer by VREM Software Development) that told me that apps need to have your permission if they want to scan for WiFi networks.
My old Linksys was crapping out after only 2 years, so I switched back to Asus a month or so ago and settled on this router. It's pretty fantastic with the feature set it has. Yeah it's a lot more expensive than the run-of-the-mill routers, but at $250 it has most of the features that the $500+ top-end boys have. Plus AI Mesh looks pretty nifty if you have a big living space. Only thing that I REALLY don't like about it is that its traffic analysis feature is handled by a 3rd party, and you have to agree to hand all of your logs over to a 3rd party if you want in-depth analysis. No thanks.
I used the ISP-provided one for awhile until they started trying to charge rent for it, so I grabbed some stuff off of Amazon, nice stuff, of course. Gorilla-taped a 140mm USB-powered fan to the modem, and expect to be able to squeeze over a decade out of it. Old modem ran ridiculously hot, and it's a miracle it survived even 3 years.
Been using AC86U for years, then bought this a week ago as the primary AiMesh, house is around 2800sqft. Can't find flaw. Perfect. Especially with Asus Merlin.
@@nicolaskeith8872 I live on a military base. Randomly throughout the day we would loose internet connections on every device/Modem/Router etc..but the lights on the Router and modem would be on. Since using the RT-AC86U, it still happens but its a 80% improvement.
They just recently have the guest networks setup to use the aimesh between routers now! So happy that this happened especially for home business networks. Thank you Asus!
As some one who has been taping off the lights on all my electronics, being able to turn them off is a super underrated feature. My routers and switches were set up in my bedroom as it doubled as my office and you may not think those little leds are that bright but when trying to sleep they are like the sun rising.
Man, down firing leds on the monitor I can't reach from my bed would be terrible if they weren't a really soft red when the pc is off. But the one right next to me goes off every night, as it flashes bright blue... Ugh, I hate blue.
I've had mine for since about mid October and it is absolutely great so far, I put the Concast combo unit into bridge mode to only act as a modem, disabling everything else
@@meyer8381 a router simply creates and distributes a local network via wired and wireless connections, you still need to have internet brought into your residence via a modem, by a local ISP.
I just got the Google Fiber installed but it's way slower than my Comcast. According to Google (they came out to diagnose the problem) I need to replace the new Google Wi-Fi mesh router with a more powerful one. The one they gave us for "free" can't handle the speed that goes in? That's exactly what they said. Would this router help me? Thank you
@@EEEBA1 I'm not sure if this will help or not because I don't know if it's the wifi that is being too slow for you, the internet connection itself or something else. If it's just the ISP provided wifi router that's too slow, you may be able to place it in what's called Bridge mode, this basically just makes it a modem, it accepts the ISP signal and converts it in a way that it can be sent to your router(like this one) via a ethernet cable. If that's not an option, honestly there is only so much I could recommend to help.
Who cares man...Had my old netgear ISP router since 2014 iirc, and it still works great - I only use wired anyway, would never use WiFi in a million years. No DC ever, rock solid up-time and I get the speeds thats advertised by my ISP...
Hi, I'm from Paraguay and here we are a bit behind on internet speeds, how do you guys get internet to your houses? I'm asking because I always see these type of videos of change your ISP router, but I don't get it because here we have coaxial cable to our houses
@@tk2ftw120 Yeah I know that but how does it get to your house, does it come straight fiber or does it convert to rj45 and that is how you can use other routers?
My only addition to this is if you use more than one ASUS router, TURN OFF roaming assist in advanced wifi settings. Our devices that were near the middle of the two routers would bounce back and forth constantly.
@@Zaid-vs2zz Ich hab eine bzw. noch eine zweite als Acess-Point im Wohnzimmer. Wlan-Erweiterung und Portfreigaben sind mit AVM-Geräten super einfach. Auch Smart-Home wie z.B. schaltbare Steckdosen
I got it, thanks for the review. Works great, 950 mbps down and 40 up running through it using the 2.5 gbps port from the modem. Dropped latency in warzone so im happy.
A lot of ISPs in Germany use AVM's Fritz!Box models with minimal modification/branding. Those are just fine and don't need changing unless you want enterprise features, in which case ASUS wouldn't be my first vendor of choice.
Our provider uses those Fritzboxes in NZ, they are a great router for fiber however the one we had was constantly dropping signal for our fiber (it was old) so I got a D-Link brand to replace it that was uber overkill but I would not recommend it to non tech savvy gamers, users as it was a nightmare to setup.
Are we really? My standard cable box from Vodafone sucks ass in WiFi signal quality over two walls in a 10 meter distance. I am planning on buying an AVM FritzBox Cable as a substitute but not sure yet. I really need a good WiFi signal...
My ISP in the UK (Zen internet) provides fritzbox as their routers and it has been great. Zen is a great ISP all round for anyone who doesn't mind paying a little extra for way better service
In Poland they don't give routers by default, only modems and if u want to buy one from them they're usually overpriced. U can get some really nice router for abt 50 usd from xiaomi and flash them with openwrt. I've been using 2 identical xiaomi routers, one as a slave and another one as master for 2 months now and I haven't ever experienced any problems.
I have 3 of these routers (in a mesh). I had to manually upgrade the signal strength via command line to 170% to get a useable connection between them. The strength limit is based on FCC (I think) restrictions, which Europe doesn't have. I used the same tools as Linus recommends (WiFi analyzer) and to be honest I couldn't beat speeds over the auto mode by defining it manually.
As someone who's modem and router are in the room they sleep in, the ability to turn on and off all the lights would totally be a plus for me. Especially if there was a way to schedule it in software to turn on and off
@@dnegel9546 SFP (small-formfactor pluggable) is a technology that moves the conversion from fiber optic to copper from the router to a small module that is plugged into the router. You can buy a small box that has an SFP socket and an ethernet port that can be used to turn the fiber from the wall into a single high-speed ethernet connection that is approperiate for plugging into the WAN port of a router. Just pull the SFP module out of the provided router from the ISP and you're free to use whatever you want without arbitrary bottlenecks.
Just got one and so far I love it. Was a bit tricky to set it up because we have NBN HFC so it was connecting to a network termination device instead of a modem, but a good friend helped me out with the assistance of a few forums and now it's great. Definitely worth the money
I love it when tech products have an option to turn off power led lights. I just got a new gaming monitor and I can turn it the bright led light for the power. It's really useful for being in a dark room.
@8:06 Not sure if someone else has mentioned this but that IP structure does what Linus is talking about. The subnet is 255.255.255.0 so IP addresses are in the range of 192.168.50.1 to 192.168.50.255 with .255 being the broadcast IP address and .1 being the gateway. Just in this case you using 192.168.50.x rather than 192.168.1.x.
When your router has more RAM then bill gates said a pc would ever need. edit: I hate destroying the integrity of a comment with edits but I have to say this: It is a joke. I know Bill gates never said this.
You should make a vid on upgrading Rileys modem/router setup, it'll be useful. I've always knew it's garbage, but I have not idea on how to improve that thing.
My advice: Don't use this when you want to use it as a VPN-client. It's then when you come to realize how crappy this stuff really is. Been there, tried that. Kicked it out of the window. I moved to a full-blown dual-core Intel-system with PfSense for that. A neccessity, because even an Intel Core2Duo at 2.4Ghz has has to work hard with 100Mbit/sec realtime SHA256-encryption/decryption. With that ASUS-router you'll only get a max of 10Mbit/sec. If you're lucky. Like i said: i tried.
I bought an RT-AX86u yesterday. The web interface and and features are a huge improvement over my Quantum Gateway G1100. I am disappointed the speed tests from wireless clients aren't as fast, especially upload speeds that are around 250 mbps instead of 400+. Hopefully I can tweak the settings to improve network performance.
@@caseyhartman7094 Disabling QOS can be a quick fix for slow bandwidth, that is because it is heavy on the router CPU and even the best router can only handle QOS at 400mbps.
Had my AX86U since Sept, it's much more stable then even the two ax88u routers I had due to stability issues. I've thrown terabytes of bittorrents and 4k neflix and that ax86u has not locked up at all
Went from a Netgear AC1900 combo router/modem to this router plus a MB8600 and it was night and day difference for coverage in my house and not getting 2x day drops while I am trying to work. Definitely overkill for my current internet package, but glad I made the upgrade, especially for in-home streaming it is better than the powerline adapters I was using. May grab another for AImesh in a year or so.
I do still have the router. Performance is great. I assume you mean 300m squared, so about 3230sq-ft, I'd say if you were to put it n the middle of that size house, depending on the materials, it would be fine. If it is more to one side of the house you may have some low signal areas at the outside edges. Mine is in my living room on one side of the house, and there are some areas on the other side of the house (especially on the top floor) that have slow speeds. I tried adding in a cheaper asus mesh extender but devices weren't switching over well between the two mesh nodes and it slowed the network down overall. If you have ethernet run through the house and can do a LAN bridge between the two nodes I'm sure it would perform better, especially if you were to get 2 of these instead of trying to get something cheaper to add on as a mesh node. Or maybe going to a triband router where one of the bands can act as the mesh back channel or whatever its called would increase performance. Its a great router though, and if more centrally located, you probably wouldn't need to deal with the AImesh.
Actually, you can also pair different OEM routers. I have a TP-link and a D-link that I set up. The newer one is my main router, the old one is my AP. The process might vary for different models, but basically you set the router in AP mode, assign a static IP address (so if you have a 10.0.0.1 default gateway then your AP could be 10.0.0.2 as an example, it just needs to be an unassigned address though). Then connect your AP (not using the WAN port) via ethernet, and even if you don't have a set AP mode it generally works with most routers, even of different brands. Then you can set the wireless settings to match the ones on your main router, then you can get near seamless transition between routers as your devices auto-connect no matter which device is in range. The first time might take some googling, and figuring things out, but it's really not very hard at all and doesn't take advanced networking skills, just a few basic skills you get it set up.
Been running a Netgate SG-3100 for a year or so now with good results. Yep, consumer grade routers are garbage. The big problem is the support and updates just vanish for most of them.
I have xfinity, I have 1gb plan and unlimited data because I have 1gb plan, they told me if I used my own router they would remove the 40$ monthly rental fee but I would have to pay for the unlimited data for 50 a month so it’s not even
@@TTGPetWussy damn.. where I live.. they won’t charge me for it I would get 1TB data included.. and for their router it’s $14/month (yes the gig... just don’t have the money for the gig plan, which is $199/month by itself, 2 gig is $299/month)
Freaking frontier charges you a 10 dollar a month fee to use their router. Except even if you bring your own router and turn theirs down they still charge you. That being said, their router is fairly decent and their modems are excellent.
I, running a wireless backhaul from the back of my house to the front to minimize WiFi interference (all wired together in the back, all wired together in the front), has just exclaimed to my wife that quote "LINUS SAID I HAVE A VERY HIGH END HOME SETUP!" Her reply? "I've very proud of you."
As an I&R Tech for one of Canada's main telcos ill add that one thing to keep in mind if you put your isp's modem in modem only mode you may lose other parts of you service such as your iptv service. So I would say look in to that before hand.
Im not too savy with router stuff but atleast visually ive noticed isp routers here in England are better quality than Canada or America mine came with 5G a good UI and 2.5 Gbps ethernet
It makes a difference... just having more ram means you have the capacity to have a realistic sized routing table to handle more than a handful of simultaneous connections. No sense having limited internet bogging down even further...
UK viewer and TalkTalk customer here. I use the Asus AC68U because the ISP modem/router (a) is not configurable, so it's ISP settings or go hang. (b) has poor Wi-Fi range and speed. (c) throttles torrent usage to dialup speeds except in the wee small hours. The Asus interface is clear and as simple as possible given that its extremely comprehensive and configurable. I love it. 😀
I'm sure other commentators have pointed this out, but anyway 160Mhz channels isn't new with 802.11AX, 160MHz channels were introduced with 802.11AC Wave2. If you look at Ubiquiti their UAP-AC-HD, UAP-AC-SHD, UAP-AC-XG, and Mini-HD all support 160MHz channels. Also yes there are client devices from the AC wave 2 gen that can do 4x4 1700mbps look at the Asus PCE-AC88, (BTW a tip they can do 1700Mbps with only an 80Mhz channel, so in theory they can do 3400Mbps with a 160Mhz channel. Also the TP-Link RE650 which can be a 4x4 80Mhz client and thus reach 1700Mbps) The TPlink Re650 has the hardware to do 160Mhz channels, but the firmware splits so it will only do 80Mhz. Though 802.11AX does add non-contiguous channel support and if its WiFi6E also 6Ghz support making 160Mhz channels more viable.
My ISP router has actually been more than adequate. It too has 1GB of ram, Wifi 6 on both 2.4 and 5 GHz and the 5ghz supports 160MHz width. It's the xFinity XB7 and its actually really good.
@@davidz4189 I only said this as an example that maybe not all ISP routers suck. It's literally a video about routers. If you don't care about this information then scroll past it and ignore. Just because info doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it may not be valuable to others.
@@laynebumgarner3046 yeah that’s why I ended up buying a router and put custom firmware on it. My router now is a vpn client so all of my home traffic is secured. Quite easy to do as well. If you or anyone is interested I can help u out
I just bought this router for my Quest 2. it works awesome! the previous 2 routers I bought were ass for my Quest 2. I'm talking about Airlink btw (Wireless PC VR)
lol recommendations, I just saw this today, bought one months ago, some ports died in a power surge, and they sent me the Gundam version as replacement, so, bonus!
@@rhombus2490 Lmao it doesn't matter what provider U just want to make sure u have 1 gig of speed and nothing less otherwise there's no reason to buy this router
@@valatiea7416 I know I’m a bit late but you do NEED to have a internet provider ready to go to have this router up and running. It does not come with WiFi. It’s just to swap out the standard router you’d get with your WiFi provider.
Wow! I ask and a video appears minutes later on that topic. Next I would like a video of Riley playing an accordion whilst jumping on a trampoline? Let's see how far we can take this... :P
It's a shame most of the ISP make using your own router as difficult as possible. Took quite a bit of trial and error to get off my FIOS router while keeping my cable TV 100% functional
It's entirely based on feature set and overall performance. If you could care less about the features boasted by asus or any other brand, and/or your current router is sufficient, then obviously don't waste your money.
If you don't mind your isp selling your information, keep on using the one they provided you;). If you value privacy, even using 1.1.1.1 is a great improvement.
I have an ASUS rt-ac66u router that I use primarily that has more features than I will ever use, and it's a bit faster than the provided one. I bought it about 6 years ago for gamestreaming to my Nvidia Shield Portable. However, I'm not going to "STOP using my ISP provided router" when I'm listening to a youtube video in the kitchen.
Also, I've been running the previous gen RT-AC86U for about a year and a half, and on just 5Ghz wifi 5, my Samsung S20 gets over 720Mbps/740Mbps, which blows me away. It's been rock solid, never gives me issues, and the 4x4 antenna config for the 5Ghz gets great range and penetration (nice)
I used the isp cable modem until they started charging rent so I bought my own. No way in hell would I let anyone other than me have control of my router/firewall that is insane.
@@_dajo Bridge mode lets you connect two routers without the risk of performance issues. Bridge mode is the configuration that disables the NAT feature on the modem and allows a router to function as a DHCP server without an IP Address conflict. Connecting multiple routers can extend the Wi-Fi coverage in your office/home.
I have an Asus AX3000, it's basically the same router without the 2.5gigabit port. I love it, it's so fast. Also when you're connected to a Wi-Fi 6 Network it'll show a little 6 on the Wi-Fi symbol on your phone making it visually pleasing to see that you're connected to a Wi-Fi 6 Network
It's ok, if your ISP allows you to use another router, with sky, we had to use wireshark to capture the login details, as the "generic" details do not work either. Then if your internet has a disconnection at the PCP, you have to plug in the old router otherwise they will discount the disconnection (even if I use a TDR to prove the disconnection).
I actually have an RT-AC87U handed to us from my sister's husband. Thing works well but pulling up its GUI is a nightmare. Sometimes it works, sometimes it times out. Mostly happens when I try to do it on a wifi connection both on 2.4 and 5 ghz bands with a 100% signal quality.
Can you do a back haul test on 2 of these units to see how well AX performs over AC on this product with wall penetration over 30 feet away? Would like to see if it can actually deliver 2.5Gbps of the 4.8Gbps channels.
Just got this one a few weeks ago. I'm surprised my TP-Link Tapo 2k camera can now connect to this router on the 2nd floor of the house with thick walls in between with much better signal than on my router on the first floor which I moved much closer for it to received better 2.4ghz signal, but apparently wont now connect to this because my camera now connects to the asus router. Love it. My IPCameras are now much stable than ever, great for viewing high quality footage on 2-3 phones without lag. 😊
Didn't watch the video but I am an extreme advocate for solely the video title. I worked for comcast between 2015 and 2019 and recommended to as many customers as I could about not using the provided equipment. The list is enormous but the few easy reasons are: 1. the rental fee of the equipment. The rental fee doubled during the time I worked for comcast and is still increasing. Modems and routers... ya they aren't really getting more expensive so buying your own equipment pays for itself because you no longer have the rental fee. 2. The gigabit gateways (modem and router in one device) comcast specifically provides only give you 2 ethernet ports to work with. 3. If you absolutely need phone service and that is your 'reasoning' behind renting equipment, arris has come out with a gigabit docsis 3.1 telephony modem so you don't have to use the comcast equipment to get phone service and decent internet speeds. These are just the tip. I didn't even watch the video so my bad if you mention any of the above in the video. *EDIT: I watched the video and you recommended someone (aka: Riley) just keep using the isp provided device and turn off the routing capabilities. While that does work, I really don't recommend going that route as its still not worth the rental fee and anyone who is planning to use their own router should purchase a separate modem along with the separate router. A decent modem only costs about $50 and not having the rental fee will pay for it in 5 months (last time I checked, the gateway rental fee is $12/month). Also if you talk to your isp and they try saying you can't use your own equipment or that they will charge you to use your own equipment, they are lieing. Frontier already got in trouble for doing this and a law has already been put into place by the FCC to make it unlawful. "The new law says that an ISP may not charge for "using covered equipment provided by the consumer," or renting or leasing covered equipment if "the provider has not provided the equipment to the consumer." Educate yourself and save some money!!!
Upgraded the cable broadband connection to 1Gbps this week. Just to find out the Asus RT-AC1900P router been using for the last 7 years could not handle the 1Gbps broadband connection. Once speeds reached around 650Mbps the router started to struggle and internet speeds was not stable at all. Ended up getting a Dynalink WiFi 6 AX3600 Router off Amazon for 80 dollars. It has a Quad Core processor and has 1GB of RAM and says it supports up too 200 devices. But I don't own that many devices to test out that last part. lol The Dynalink WiFi 6 AX3600 Router does however handle the 1Gbps broadband connection like a champ.
