Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is truly just a gaming router. I would love this if only it was smarter about actual NAS systems. If you have a legitamate NAS (i.e. RJ45 connected) this router will not permit access or configuration of UPnP settings. It does everything else, but not this. I refuse to connect my 84TB server via USB which is the ONLY way this router will directly interface with mass storage types. It breaks my heart that the RAX 200/120 family is so powerful but lacks advanced management features, and this one has all the management features except for unique UPnP settings.

The ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 is the latest and greatest home router from ASUS. It features the latest WiFi standard, 802.11ax, or WiFi 6 as it is being branded now to simplify WiFi generations for consumers. It is a router geared towards gamers and power users who want the fastest wireless performance as well as some new wired LAN features that are less commonly seen in consumer devices. To get the obvious out of the way, it’s huge. With antenna it is about 11 inches square and looks like a dead cyborg spider from your favorite dystopian sci-if movie. It is a matte black with satin metallic copper accents. Many of the pictures make it look like the accents are a red or orange color, but they aren’t. Given those possibilities the copper looks better….for a dead cyborg spider. On top is a big heat vent and a full RGB backlit ROG logo that you can customize in the UI. It’s OK, but I would really have liked to have the colors be sensitive to system load or something instead of 6 options that are just colors and flashing patterns and don’t relate to system activity. Personally, I’m not a huge RGB fan, so I turned it off. After a short assembly project to attach all 8 antennas, plug it in, push the power button, and it’s ready to go… After powering up, it advertises the default wireless networks. Connect to them with just about any device, head to the address listed in the quick start paperwork, and you are off to the races. I actually did the initial setup using an iPhone…. For some reason my PC on a wired connection using Edge just pulled up a blank screen. Chrome worked fine, but something to keep in mind if using Edge that it might not work and the router is fine, it’s just the Edge browser. Mine used an odd private IP range out of the box of 192.168.50.0/24. You may want to change that to match your old home network if you have any devices that had static IPs. After changing that and matching the SSIDs and pass phrases to my previous router, everything started connecting. I did have to reboot my ISP’s modem to get it to play nice and work with the router. For wired connectivity, there are interesting options. 4 local 1 gigabit ports, one 1 gigabit WAN port, and one 2.5 multigigabit port are on the back. In addition, there are two USB 3 ports that can be used to connect a hard drive to use as a NAS, a USB printer, or a cell data USB modem to provide WAN redundancy. The multigigabit port is interesting for things like a high performance NAS. Unless you are into custom building PCs though you may not find a lot of uses for it. If you are a gamer who is really picky about ping times, this router has some interesting options. For one, it will ping servers for some of the major games for you and let you know which ones are the best right now. It is also constantly running a ping and giving you general internet latency (the time it takes for a packet to go round trip) and jitter (the difference in round trip times between pings). Another feature is that you can set a single device on your network to having gaming traffic sent through a “GPN” that provides an optimized path to the servers for some games. For a fee you can enable it for more than one device. Finally, the wireless connectivity. With 8 antennas this router offers 1 2.4ghz 4x4, and 2 5ghz 4x4 Wifi 6 or 802.11ax radios. It can use the array for universal and explicit beam forming, and also supports the latest tricks in WiFi frequency manipulation that allows for multiple hosts to use the same channel at the same time instead of only allowing one host to communicate at a time….provided you have end hosts that support it. Coverage is about the same as the ASUS RT-3100 it replaced and it covers the inside of a 5000 sqft home with three levels well despite being located in a den near an outside wall instead of centrally located. Signal stability seems to be good as many of my smaller 2.4ghz only devices work well in random areas of the house. The two 5ghz bands give you the flexibility to have one channel only used by devices that are latency sensitive like gaming consoles, while having other devices that might be streaming on another channel. Another advantage is that you can have one channel for your WiFi 6 (ax) clients, allowing them to operate at full speed with all of their advanced features while relegating older clients to the other channel. This does bring up a point though about this router – it is a premium device at a premium price as it supports the latest WiFi standard, but most if not all of your devices are not likely to support it when the standard is still new and some smaller devices like WiFi plugs and sensors may not put in WiFi 6 radios for years, opting for older and cheaper technologies. Since WiFi 6 requires a hardware radio change, only through replacement of older devices will you be able to take full advantage of this router. ASUS has also gotten into the WiFi mesh system trend in home wireless where multiple wireless routers (or access points in they would be as mesh nodes) are chained to each other wirelessly to extend WiFi coverage in large homes or homes that structurally are difficult for a single router to cover. Since this router has 2 5ghz bands it can manage a mesh even more effectively, especially if the other nodes also have tri-band radios, although that can get very costly. I do like that ASUS has extended this “AiMesh” feature into almost their entire product line, even older routers now can be part of the mesh, giving life to older devices when a new one is put into the mix. Of course, mixing older access points and radios with new ones will result in an impact to performance for your devices. For security, this ASUS router has many of the features that the top tier ASUS routers have had for a while, including built in IPS and malicious site blocking. The site blocking is a very useful feature that will block bad links you (or a family member) might get in an email, or if you mistype a common URL and there is a malicious server camping out on the misspelled site name. It can also do some DoS attack mitigation and detect if there is malware on one of your devices that is trying to reach back to its command and control server or send out your data. It also supports several guest networks so you can give your guests access to your internet connection but not the rest of your network. Overall, this is a feature rich router that has excellent coverage and supports the latest WiFi standard, making it a solid choice for gamers and enthusiasts who want the very latest. For the average home user, many of the features are probably overkill and with consumer WiFi 6 (ax) clients only starting to come to market, it will be a while until most users can leverage everything this router has to offer. With the new WiFi 6 routers hitting the selves, the price on the older WiFi 5 (ac) routers are likely to fall, providing a good chance to pick up a very capable router at a lower price that will be more than enough for most users and homes. If you want an ultra high performance router that will support the latest standard well into the future and can convince your significant other (if you have one to convince) into accepting a cyborg desk spider, this is a solid choice.

Good router, really enjoyed it but had problems restarting on its own. Firmware was up to date as well as reset after. Issue remained, Asus advised me to return it.

I got this back in July 2022, i had nothing but issues with it. I was restoring it, and re-installing the firmware weekly. Nothing was working, I tried the official firmware and open source. Still nothing, I am member of the totaltech. I tried to set up appointment to get it looked at,But that was hassle and 3 total tech reps later before I could even get one.

Garbage! Don’t waste your money on it. Didn’t last 3 months. Plugged in my old dual band router and it works flawlessly. Expensive equipment use to mean a level of quality but that is no longer true and I’d recommend people staying away from high, overpriced products. I also have similar issues with my expensive Sony T.V., PS4 pro and my expensive modem. Most of these products are no longer in use as I’ve switched back to mediocre models. No longer have any issues.

This device has several batches with hardware errors. Asus have taken 7 months to repair or refund for a faulty design. It actually took me to take legal action to get them to do the right thing. Also this thing sucks for gaming buy a reliable brand such as Ubiquiti. I assume Asus bots will reply to this comment with an apology for crappy service but I'll never get back my 40+ hours over the last 6 months its taken to deal with them. Buyer beware.

Great once you get set up put extremely hard to set up and very frustrating and plus no one needs that speed unless they get it with internet provider

Bought 2 to extend distance, but couldn't get either on to get more than 400 out of 900mbps.. Had to return after no help from Asus...

Feature rich router, but I believe there are still a lot of issues with the firm router. Unfortunately have had a lot of problems with this router, from dropping the speed of local ethernet clients, to randomly dropping it’s wifi signal on the 5G networks (both of them at least once a day). There are networking forums with others having similar issues, not just with this router, but the router model just under this one. It appears to be a firmware issue. My first issue was that while I am rated to get a 200Mbps download speed from my ISP, I would, from time to time, get only 15 - 30 Mbps, on a wired ethernet connection. Speaking with tech support solved nothing, as the router was so new they didn’t know what to do, other than for me to return the router to the store which it came. I then figured out that unplugging the ethernet port on the back of the router into another one of the ports, fixed it, but only temporarily. I then also then realized what seems to trigger the issue with wired ethernet clients dropping speed is having the router admin site open for long periods of time. My bigger issue with this router, is that for the very high price, I should not be having an even weaker 5g signal, which drops about once a day to all my devices. My house is not even that big, and my router is not even 50 feet away from the device that loses it’s 5g connection the most, my NVIDIA shield. When the NVIDIA Shield loses it’s 5g connection to this router, it usually cannot find it again, it just shows up as out of range, even after a reboot of the Nvidia shield itself. I literally need to reboot the router from the router login page. This router will be overkill for about 99 percent of home users, including gamers. It is great that the router does have so many features, but most people will totally be lost on what to do with them. They are far better served by getting a less expensive router, that has a more reliable firmware. This product is still relatively new, and there is currently a beta firmware that is being tested in the community right now, but only time will tell if ASUS has fixed the issues I have had with a firmware update. My last router did not have as much range of a connection, either on wireless N/B/G, or wireless AC (aka 5g). But it never randomly dropped it’s connections, either wired or wireless clients, like this router does. Also, as others have mentioned, this thing is HUGE. I mean it is massive. Make sure you have space for it if you do decide to get it, because ASUS did not include a way to mount it on a wall, like many other routers. Feature rich router, but I believe there are still a lot of issues with the firmware, that will hopefully be addressed via future updates. When it works, which is most the time, it is great, but otherwise, it is very annoying to have to reboot it to regain your wireless 5g networks.

I bought this due to the good reviews and quality company, but returned it a few days later since I could not get it set up. I am not the best, but have set up quite a few routers before and for some reason a DNS error would not let me get connected. Asus customer service was certainly not the best either and could also not figure it out. Maybe I got a dud, but I now have the Nighthawk AX6600 and love it!

Second unit has the same problems as the first. Unable to change any configuration settings to customize the setup. Primary and Level 2 support have been unable to identify or solve the problem.

I've had this router for 3 years and I couldn't be happier. I live in a 1900 sq ft house and even w the master bedroom being on the other side of a brick fireplace, I still get good reception throughout the entire house. The software is easy to update. The features I use are easy to understand and utilize. I'm a point where I even wonder if I will actually need to update this router anytime in the near future.

Router work fine for a few hours then disconnected from the internet. Ibupdated the router F/W but it doea not help. Router returned to Best Buy

I have to say that all the tweaks and settings I researched and used did not improve the signal coverage of my home. My Netgear covers my backyard and my front yard on top of my entire house. For the cost of this router you can get better signal with a less expensive unit. I wouldn't recommend this unless you have a very small apartment.

Nov 10, 2020 this thing did not even make it a year and I getting horrible 2.4 drops.. I have tried updating the firmware, Rebooting etc.. the 2.4 if terrible and unfortunately all my smart home tech is 2.4 so my house is now dumb because this $400 paper weight.

after a year, i barely get wifi connection in my house in the same spots i used to.

For the price you pay I expected better. Router web interface is very childish and hard to read. NO WALL MOUNT HOLES. This was a deal breaker for me because I like my routers mounted higher on the wall for better signal dispersion. Asus dropped the ball big time on this router. I could modify it to mount it like others have, but I shouldn't have to at this price.

For the price i paid for this im so upset with it. Ive only had it for a few months and now i continuously will lose internet. Not just wifi, like hardwire connection is lost as well. Im getting ahold of asus to give me a replacement but im sure it wont be a fun process. Can't believe this has so many issues.

Antenna was missing from the box. Contacted Bestbuy and was disconnected twice only and never called back to resolve the issue. Used the Chat option and was told they are going to resend me a new router but it will take 5 days. Ended up ordering from another retailer "Next day". First time I have ever had an issue! :(

The unit would reboot, lose passwords and for the price I'll either wait or go with prosumer grade.