Customer Ratings & Reviews

works really well, and has a really cool LED light function. Zero issues

Great router. Easy set up, operation, and performance is tops.

excellent router. great range and great speed with very easy setup.

Really easy set up! The router works really well, fast, and easy to customize settings for it.

Bought this router because i needed something good enough for gaming. It delivered in all aspects especially prioritization. I chose the RT-AX86U because it was only $20 more for the extra tech on it which would cost way more on a different router. Funnily, RT-AX82U experienced less or none wifi packet loss compared to RT-AX86U. Would I buy it again over RT-AX86U? Definitely, its an amazing router and delivers on all fronts.

This router allows great speed and connection, the fact that Asus has an app that allows you to control it from anywhere even when your not connected to the wifi is very handy. I'm able to tell the router to not allow certain web activity is very helpful so I don't have to closely follow my children's activities while they are browsing. I've not noticed any drop in speeds while other are downloading or playing games.

Waiting on 2nd one to come in to mesh them together

Easy to set up, works MUCH faster than my last one!

Works very well and app features are better than my old Netgear.

It quit working after about 6 months due to an Asus IT issue. Their support team wasn’t able to correct the issue and had to submit a higher level ticket. That left me without WiFi for an expected 4 to 6 days. I’ve disconnected it and gone with a different brand. I’d return this item if I could. Total waste of money and time

Bought this to replace a Netgear Nighthawk X6. It is infinitely better. Tons of features (especially for gaming). Very useful app. And it looks cool as hell!

If you have a smart home this router is the best dual band router out there

Was easier than netgear to setup. Great coverage. Love the app

My wifi is definitely stronger. I'm happy. It's a good upgrade

The router works well. Easy to set up. Works well for me. Range in the house is good 1800 square feet not a massive home. No issues with devices connected to router wifi or wired. Game PC is wired to router and the other is on wifi with no complaints ecat for internet connection un related to router. Costs a little more for features but otherwise better than my Lynksys that just passed away.

Fantastic. Very fast and as a gamer I love how many options to control prioritization of devices.

Since buying this i havent had any issues on my end with the internet.

Bought this yesterday, I'm happy with my purchase. Previously, the router I had was a Asus N56U doing router work (using OpenWRT) and a TP Link AP for wifi. And it did a decent job, just with minor quirks. For example, Chromecast would buffer every 10-20secs during a Youtube Livestream and always lag behind a mobile device (ex. streaming it to a phone would be ahead by 3secs give or take on the same Wifi network). Gaming on the Nintendo Switch (Smash Ultimate for example) would have a sudden lag every time someone used VoIP (again on WiFi). Oh did I mention VoIP also would have buffering issues as well (Messenger/Wifi Calling)? Despite the issues, OpenWRT did alleviate much of these problems because it was even worse using the CenturyLink Modem (despite the fact that it was NEWER than the N56U). Multiple streams would cause issues by either buffering or dropping the quality to 480p. Voice calls would buffer and slow the network, gaming on wifi sucked, downloads slowed down, etc. The custom firmware helped with bufferbloat by using Cake for SQM. But the issues persisted and would always annoy me when it happened. I've used that for about 3yrs and just adjusting settings to improve performance. But there's only so much you can do... Well, I bought this and had to adjust some settings to make sure it didn't interfere with other wifi signals and bam! it does. Does everthing perfectly and all the issues i mentioned have gone away. Honestly, its overkill for what I need. The biggest improvement wasn't AX/Wifi 6 or OFDMA or maybe MU-MIMO, but my guess is the processor and QoS. The N56U had a 500mhz processor and for multiple streaming devices (I have at least 3 devices streaming in the home) that takes a toll on it. This one has a 1.5Ghz tri-core processor. And it handles multiple streams like a champ along with gaming and calls. QoS is a bit more smarter? I guess... It gives me more options but just using Traditional QoS instead of their Adaptive QoS is good enough. Not as good as cake sqm but it does the job fine. Only issue i dont like is Asus collecting information if you use any of their "performance" and "security" settings, and as someone mentioned, it makes the router not worth it if you dont use those settings. But for my use case it's great and in the future i will plan on using custom firmware on it for long term use. Very pleased.

I replaced an old net gear with this and have seen Wi-Fi coverage in my house improve greatly.

Super easy to set up Blazing fast Wifi Almost a Gig a second very cool form factor