Customer Ratings & Reviews

I waited until a month of ownership had passed to fully acquaint myself with this router before writing this review, and gathering an opinion on it/it's features/quirks. Normally I'd lay out my reviews in the "pros/cons manner, but this is a router, and realistically that's difficult to do. Navigating the router - at first - was difficult as I've used Netgear exclusively ever since the Linksys WRT54G was "outdated" due to their ease of use and acceptability of open source firmware. I was a bit deterred to know that this router didn't have open source capabilities, or any developers for such, but decided ultimately based off reviews to give it a chance anyway, and I'm quite glad I did. I've not tested the USB throughput, however, if it's performance is anything similar to what I've experienced on my network thus far I've got no doubt that it'll reach it's specified transfer rates. I've had ZERO issues with this router, and find the ease of doing some things (such as blocking internet access for my security cameras) is INSANELY easy (literally the click of a button vs Netgear's multiple page/menu/submenu navigation then restarting the router every single time within ANOTHER MENU.) Assigning static LAN IP's is equally as easy, and I quite enjoy the fact that I can DISABLE automatic throughput prioritization for the "gaming" port on the wired LAN. The ability to set up temporary networks is really cool too, not a GUEST network - a temporary one, as in it vanishes in a set amount of time. That's pretty legit if a friend's kids want to come over and use the internet, but I want to make sure that they don't have it automatically the next day should I forget to disable the guest account, etc. Being able to see CPU CORE usage - not just overall - memory usage, logging of multiple different aspects all SEPARATELY DDOS protection built in as well as ICMP requests, etc. are all very nice things to have. The RGB is..basic, but it's not like this is Corsair, afterall, naturally it's going to be a lot less "fun" than it could be, but it's not bad. It COULD be better, but that would come at the cost of RAM/CPU usage - so consider that. The ease of use of this router is bar-none the BEST I've ever had in a managed atmosphere for networking devices, and I went to school for this...so there's that. The CPU usage spikes pretty heavily on my 400Mbps/40Mbps network when I max out traffic during packet sniffing/loss tests/speed tests/large downloads, so it definitely HAS the potential for buffer overflow but I've yet to run into any, and have 5 LAN tablets, 3 Smart TV's, 2 4k Blu-Ray streamers, 5 Bluetooth Audio Systems, a Switch, 4 Desktop PC's, a Server, a HTPC, a fire stick, a laptop, and two smart phones all running through this router as well as 10 cameras, and I've had NO issues whatsoever without even enabling QOS or other "management" features. Again - bar-none this is the BEST router I've ever owned. Period. I haven't tested whether the RGB affects RAM/CPU usage or temps enough to care, but I've got mine mounted on an aluminum 'shelf' with perforations for airflow, and have had absolutely no hiccups whatsoever. Build quality is good, decently heavy, but you can tell that the way they designed it was with airflow in mind. At numerous angles you can see through this router, and that's a good thing!

Been a long time with my ASUS router, and recently it came time to upgrade. Man, what a difference it made for the household. ASUS hasn't done me wrong, and I'll continue purchasing these products.

This is a great router. Very easy to set up and lots of options and pretty easy to use. I’ve had no issues for the last few months and I’d recommend it.

Playing Helldivers and not getting dc mid mission is great. Spreading democracy with no issues. Lol Would recommend to others.

The range this router has is incredible strong signal cover my 2800sq ft home. WiFi reached my outside shed at 750mbs

I have not had any issues since i bought it, signal strength is strong, I would recommend for work, school work and online gamers.

I bought this to augment the router we have with our carrier.

I’m using this little guy instead of the one of my internet provider and it doesn’t disappoint

I highly recommend this router to anyone who is in the market for a router and for someone who does not want to spend over 300 dollars for a router. The router took a few minutes for the initial setup. Soon after the initial setup, you are presented with many features, ranging from novice users to advanced users. I really enjoy the range of this router. At approximately 50 feet away, I am still connected at 51 Mbps download, 77 dBm, which is enough to operate at that distance. Now if you are within range of 25 feet, you'll have the 5 GHz connection and will have no problem operating to your internet service speeds.

Extremely easy setup, with plenty of advanced features for those that need more from their router. This really had everything I was looking for as advertised. I will mention that I've had to reboot it twice since I got it, but I haven't been able to determine if it is my ISP or the router that is dropping the WAN connection as the reboot restored the connection straight away. I'll have to dig deeper if another reboot is needed in the coming month. I have found that since replacing my decade+ old router, I've had better overall connectivity and stronger signal throughout the house, so WiFi 6 is living up to its promises thus far.

Fixed all the issues I was having with my ISP's standard router. Has really good coverage and bandwidth for a ~2000 sqft home with 3 people always on the internet.

We purchased this router for my wifes work from home job, the QoS ability of this router improved my wifes connectivity and call quality exponentially. The range of the WiFi is superb, We don't have a single dead zone in our two story house now that we upgraded to this router. I encourage you greatly to buy this, if you need a router upgrade for gaming/work from home, or just increased coverage. This is an amazing router!

I have been waiting for this item to go on sale for the longest time, and it was well worth to replace my old Linksys router. Great choice, easy connectivity, and setup. My son enjoys the new router for his Xbox gaming.

I purchased this router on the advice of a store worker. He was right on when he said it will work great. After installing it and getting it set up it works "GREAT" It is well worth the price.

Stunning, solid, everything I've come to expect from ASUS devices! Yeah okay they succumbed to the weird gamer obsession with RGB dressing, but at least you can turn it off if you're an adult with better things to do than stare at a router's light show all day. No messing around with cloud logins (looking at you, Linksys), everything is easy to work out for yourself with minimal poking around in the interface. The long and the short of it is that routers are one of those things you only want to have to mess with once or twice every few years at most, and if you've got any of ASUS' AC or AX offerings installed, rest assured you'll be forgetting it's there in short order.

Great expandable wireless router for large or multilevel home. This router it's a life saver and game changer specially for gamers. We purchased this as our home is a 3 level house and our previous router was not good enough to cover all area wireless speaking. This one we installed it into the same spot where the old one was (2nd level of the house) and it made a big improvement in wireless connectivity for our gamers and for our normal wireless users. We have at least 18 devices connected to this router and our internet subscription to 200M we get our wireless connectivity up to 160M which is impressive as we all know wireless is not guaranteed unless you are hard wired to get up to 200M in this scenario. Do I recommend it? Absolutely.

Connected this to an xfinity pod and hardwired it to my ps5. Actually works really good, get about 250 mbps on the ps5 now

Ive come to expect good things with Asus products, and im pleased to say that so far this router is continuing that trend. My family has on average 20+ devices connected to wi-fi throughout the day doing everything from basic browsing to streaming and gaming, and work-from-home over VOIP. So far this hasnt been a challenge for the router. The remote admin app is also very robust, ensuring 2factor ID to allow remote access outside of the network. The settings are fairly easy to navigate through the app with a very gamer-inspired GUI. Havent used the gaming mode yet as its not really needed to prioritize one device; but it can be set up to prioritize *types* of tasks other than just gaming too. Overall, easy to set, admin and use.

Very good router! I swapped to this from an old netgear router. The speeds and latency are much better! Asus is usually a reliable brand as well. App seems easy to use for configuration.

In love with my new router, is it all I need for my home.