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Just saw this on Bing Lee website as clearance. Successfully price match with JB-Hifi.
ASUS ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Gigabit Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6 Router $549 + Delivery / Free Pickup @ Bing Lee
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Anyone have one of these and can recommend? Mainly interested how the connection goes a 3-4 rooms from the router. Thx
I’d buy a mesh system instead for the same price and put a node halfway between where you want the single and the first router.
I'd second that - a mesh system would be much better
A set of XT8 or AX92U would be more suitable in most casesPersonally i am using 2 XT8 and 2 AX92U plus one DSL AC68U for my complex home setup and it works wonders, eliminating the need to upgrade our home cables (which are running at 100/10MB). Wireless backhaul are consitant and right now they are running at 1GB across the entire house
Hi ICEFIR, hoping to learn more about your network setup as I have a DSl-AC68U sitting in the box. I've read that the DSLAC86U can only be used as the main router in an asus Ai mesh setup. If so, wouldn't this be a bottleneck? Furthermore, how are the XT8 backhaul behaving? Considering the AC68U is only dual band, does it take over the single 5GHz on the AC68U for backhaul? How does this work? Thanks in advance.
I'd need to correct myself a bit - I am using 1 DSL AC86U, 3 Zen XT8 and 2 AX92U, to achieve gigabit wireless coverage across the house
Yes you are correct that DSL AC86U must be the main AI Mesh router but that doesn't matter - the topology I've configed made AC86U acting like an internet gateway - only traffic going in to the mesh or out to the internet will be routed through AC86U.
All LAN traffic are being routed through one of the XT8 thus bypassing the AC86U (that XT8 itself is hardwired to AC86U for internet connection for the mesh), and the wifi radio of the AC86U has been turned off (Using the Button on the router - though it's also doable using the web UI I believe)
It's been running great over the past couple of months…. Connection have been stable, and LAN speed (to my NAS/Media Service) has improved greatly from literally anywhere of the house :)
Plus it would server years to come, once that, we get gigabit internet here in Australia eventually@ICEFIR: Thanks for the explanation, ICEFIR. I suspected you may have used the AC86U as the main router without wifi on. It's similar to what I'm doing atm with the tpg issued TP-link routers and 3x Tenda MW6's. I want to move away from all that and have a clean mesh direct from the nbn black box (HFC).
Your topology gave me a good view of the possibilities/limitations of the Asus system!
I would have thought at $600 this should cover 3-4 rooms at once easily.
Had one for a while. Covers my 200m2 house almost perfectly except for a small dead spot in the far corner (15ish m) of the house where the Wi-Fi has to pass through 2 mirrors and 2 bathrooms, and a total of 6 gyprock walls.
I love it. I do run it in mesh with one router approx 35m away in the garage and one just above the dead spot in the far corner of the house. I now have full speed wifi coverage to all boundaries of my property
Can accept the NBN WAN cable? Ie. I just want a NBN box and one router set up
From NBN Blackbox (HFC), yes.
Not sure what you mean. Barely anyone on HFC NBN
Yep, they’re not adsl routers. Plug in to the wan port of the router.
This is technically already a 6Ghz but it's released before standards are finalised.
And after that the rather creepy Wifi 7 which can … examine it's physical surroundings.
And then onto Wifi 8 which examines them in terrifying detail.
Wifi 9 gives you an internal examination…
Can probably smell what you had for breakfast.
Should I get this or AX86U?
The more antennas the better
Sauron edition
Turn that thing upside down and it is the things nightmares are made of…
At this price and it doesn't even do modem as well? Shame…
Boss WiFi