Fantastic router. Cheapest price ever on the camels.
I have it at home and it's very powerful and fast.
Mod Update: Price has dropped to $199
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Had it for 4 years never miss a bit and the price barely dipped.
Edit: 10% Amazon cashback today
Could you elaborate on the cashback, thanks
Would anyone have thoughts on this or the TPLink Mesh Deco M5?
About the most you can do on the Deco M5 is port forwarding and IPv6.
With Asus you can customize more things like configure a VPN client, three different types of QoS, DDNS, Tx power adjustment and so on.
My 4 year old Netgear R7000 is still going strong.
Worth a change do people think?
Nah get another year out of the Netgear. Upgrade to Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E when it becomes available.
Ah, ok then. Cheers.
The Wi-Fi 6 enabled AX-3000 is also on sale for $255 - https://www.amazon.com.au/ASUS-Wi-Fi-Gaming-Router-TUF-AX300…
Not sure why you got neg.
AX58U is better IMO.
RT-AX58U will get more updates and is more future proof.
The interesting question is, does RT-AC68U have better range?
Are these routers actually noticeably better than the stock standard routers you get from TPG?
1000% I recommend you DYOR but the answer is yes.
Depends on what you do and what they gave you, but usually yeah.
I dont know what they're giving away now but the one I got 4 years ago had way crappier range and performance would slow to a crawl to anyone else connected if I downloaded a torrent.
I got an RT-AC68U and it's been fine. Mum can watch netflix while i torrent like 10 things, it doesn't even care and I get 450mbit/sec through a wall.
The RT-AC68U probably has the Multimedia QoS feature. It allows you to watch Netflix while some one is torrenting. That's a very important feature to have in a router.
Can you suggest a good value AX router to upgrade from AC68U? I don't need a gaming feature, although I heard that it somewhat improves general usage as well.
They have a heap more functionality, which may or may not be useful to you.
Bar the extra 'functionality' I assume these won't really give any extra range or speed VS a Telstra smart modem/router 2…? Better off either getting a mesh system, a second router to put at the other end of the house, or wait for a newer protocol router, yes?
It's more than likely that you'll notice extra range and speed. Our block is fairly large (900 sqm) and we have the inferior 68u and the 2.4g band covers the entire yard. (it's roughly in the middle of the house)
Mine has not missed a beat. Great coverage and a whole lot better than the standard one I got. I have my running in AiMesh mode with a 68U so my whole block is covered in 5GHz band, 2.4GHz band works until you get closer to the boundaries but in mesh whole block is covered.
If you get this and have another Asus router instant mesh setup.
I was hoping to get a Mikrotik or even Ubiquiti for all the functionality but there seems to be no good stock of either in this country for some reason so would it work to get something like this and flash Merlin or whatever to help with bufferbloat, Vlans, VPNs etc?
Considering upgrading at 6pm when sale starts - from the Nighthawk (Opticomm/optic fibre serviced area).. talk me out of it - my luck the Nighthawk will drop connection at 6pm to spite me! Netgear support has really been bothering me lately, have to be subscribed to get any response from them, and they just want logs but don't provide solutions; we drop out about once a week due to hardware with some occassional wifi dead spots. Reset and we're good - hoping this would be more stable.
Would the Wi-Fi 6 enabled AX-3000 be worth the slight price premium at $255 shipped (Amazon)?
Looking to upgrade my Telstra Smart Modem Gen 2 which has terrible WiFi range
my xiaomi ax3600 was 50% cheaper than this xD
Do asus routers support ad blocking/ anti-malware/tracking stuff as well like Adguard Home Comparing it to GL inet Flint
You can by using the AdGuard DNS server. They are hardcoded into the settings.
Hmm but still its a bit more expensive than GL inet flint ($121) almost like $95 cheaper/savings
there a 2 FREE programs that can run from USB stick on most ASUS routers:
Diversion (very customizable ad-blocker) and Skynet (Firewall).
I highly recommend both.
- https://diversion.ch/
- https://www.snbforums.com/threads/skynet-router-firewall-sec…
Thanks just got one
Got the AX5400 from UK for $170 with cashback.
Is this the same one at CentreCom for $199? https://www.centrecom.com.au/asus-ac2900-dual-band-gigabit-w…
Must have been recent price drop, wasnt that when this deal was posted
Sub-Total: $199.00
Shipping: $0.00
Payment surcharge: $2.39
Tax: $18.58
Freight Insurance $2.95
Order Total: $204.34
Shipping still cost for me, so same price to my area
Amazon just dropped to $199 as well, but min/no cashback
done thanks. time to upgrade my 5 year old rt-ac68u
Great price. C'mon AX86 price drop already