Not sure how good these are, appears to be a pretty low price so I thought I'd post it up.
Specs look pretty lit, and if anyone has one to confirm if these are sweet, then I'll probably grab one.
Please refrain from spider jokes as they are very spooky.
CamelCamelCamel.
Incy Wincy spider went up the water spout
Down went the wifi, and knocked the streaming out..
Out came the reboooot to turn it off and on again
This made my partner laugh quite a lot hahaha
Easily humored partner hah
Looks like one of those scalp massagers lol
Or a head crab from half life
But they only have 4 legs
Mount it on your roof it might fuel some nightmares, or scare some bleary eyed teenager trying to finish their assignment at 2am in the morning…
Lol, agreed. Looks like the face hugger from half life.
Great router it seems. Equal to if not better than the AX86U and AX88U which are both very well regarded.
Here is review I found:
I was intrigued, but it has a fan.
I think it needs a few more antennas.
I think it needs less antennas so it can be facehugger.
I wonder how many hours of RnD were put into fitting this many antennas.
More cowbells!
It already has enough to be an incy wincy!
Needs more LAN ports.
I prefer my router to not be able suffocate my face while I sleep. I'm sticking to my Deco setup, this thing would give me legitimate nightmares
$72.09 / antenna
Bless
Wonder how this performs vs Ubiquity gear?
After running Unifi gear for a few years it's hard to go back to…. 'civilian' units.
What the Ubiquity units might lack in claimed speed they usually more than make up for in reliable real world throughput and reliability.
What sort of Ubiquiti fan boy calls it "Ubiquity". Get outta hereeeee!!
I think you'd be mad buying an Asus router for $600+
If it looked more like a spider I'd buy one
Got any special on googly eyes?
Wonder how well they work upside down..
Had one since release imported through newegg, best router I've had by far !
and why is that ? Can it be connected to Belong Modem/Router as a Router ?
Of course, it's a beast due to cpu n multitude of connections
It was cumbersome having a seperate router and fruit bowl, I'm glad I can bring them together
arrgh its a god damn spider.
I want to cry…I bought this router from NEWEGG 3 months ago, and it was 831.67AUD, including 2 years warranty. (┬┬﹏┬┬)
and amazon au warranty will be much easier than newegg warranty
Yes. That is true. NEWEGG's stuff doesn't come with any warranties, if you want a warranty you have to pay for it, it's been called local cover.
Bugger =(
How loud do you find the fan on it?
extremely loud…. :)
anything better than the 4g-ax56 with the same sim failover?
Darn, I ordered the RT-AX88U literally a week ago for not much cheaper via Amazon US. Great price for a product available domestically.
good luck with AU plug on adapter
What? I bought RT-AX88U for $340 back in 2019 from Binglee. Shouldn't pay more than $450 for it even with stock shortage.
Keep a can of Raid near this just incase
This looks like overkill. What would someone use this for?
double story house or house with bad wifi. Signal is amazing. Plus the router is very powerful in terms of processor speed as well as features. Plus the 8 LAN ports is very handy. Plus the 10G ports are great if you run a home server or NAS
Even if you have the most powerful Wifi antenna in the world you only fix 1 side of the transmission. Your teeny tiny WiFi antenna on your phone/tablet will still struggle to send the signal back to Access point, and will be throttled by this speed. So if you have WiFi coverage issues, for the love of jeebuz, get another Access point and wire it in - you cannot half-ass this with "all in one" marketing spin.
Are you saying my phone antenna should be as strong as the nearest tower to get proper signal, hmm.. OK!!
@bobz79: Mobile towers operate at much lower radio frequencies which have a greater distance thanks to physics. Additionally your phone transmits very low data between towers, unless you’re hammering 4G data which, as you may notice, absolutely kills your battery life.
There’s a fine balance between radio signal strength and battery life - especially with mobile devices.
I don't think this is how antenna's work. Think about your phone in a phone call over 4g, you don't need your phone's antenna to send data all the way to the tower, the tower's antenna picks up the transmission from the phone. In saying this I completely agree a better solution than a larger number of directional antennas is more APs for most people.
@algy: That's absolutely how it works, the phones antenna sends the signal to the tower. They just have very good antennas and circuits that can pickup weak signals.
Double storey? Get mesh or 2nd access point
Bad WiFi? Get mesh or 2nd access point
Would 2nd access point not cause problem for devices to keep switching between access point on ground floor and 1st floor? What is the best way to setup?
@amsaini15: Mesh. But in the absence of, a 2nd access point.
Been in a double for 7 years. Mesh is my only option for whole house coverage with movement between points.
@scuderiarmani: Hmm. I see more and more people leaning towards mesh rather than 2nd access point. I will go with google mesh as well. Probably much easier setup than 2nd access point.
@amsaini15: Check whirlpool before you do that….
Google had recent bad firmware updates that caused huge problems for many. I recently sold mine too. They were generally great beforehand though unfortunately.
@scuderiarmani: had the nest wifi problems but factory reset fixed it. yes its annoying to reset but it's fine for me now.
Or you know just get a decent router that does it for you. I have the ac86u modem/router version and it works great in my double storey house. Its wired in the garage too.
@Piranha2004: That's nice, my double storey requires 4 units. I have tried your very unit and it was no different to any other.
Signal won't be much better than other decent router, we are still governed by power limits. All you can do is have more concurrent streams simultaneously, which might help throughput, but only if your client devices have radios that can do that.
This, it's such a niche case to actually really NEED a single high end device over say a dual mesh system.
The difference in coverage from a $100 to an $800 single unit is minimal.
If you wear it on your head, do you wear it antennas down to submit to its control, or antenna's up to assert dominance?
Down, with dangling corks.
Walkabout WiFi
Up, so that it takes the form of Fivegee, crown of the wifi king.
Looks like a Facehugger from the Alien movie series
Birthday cake….. blow your candles out!
Asus make such quality routers. I've been through about 5-6 other router brands and my current Asus router is by far the best. So much thought goes into the firmware, the features provided are amazing. They are def worth the money for anyone who is on the fence.
Agreed, my RT-AC88U is still going strong from 2018.
My only dislike is that the USB connection can be a bit hit and miss about whether it will detect the storage.
Also agree, came from a Netgear orbi. nothing but drop outs constantly. AX88U no issues
thats What i wanted to Note this Router is unsupported as far as 3rd party Firmwares like merlin go ( and probbly never will be) also updates via ASUS are slow as well
its a shame as this is a Nice Bit of Kit
That's only true for recent routers.
I had to install Tomato (does anyone remember that?) on a RT-16 just to get it to work.
Is there any expert analysis out there about whether this level of antennae is necessary?
does it really matter if it has an extra 2 or 4 antennas? .. it's not like it going to take up any extra space in your house with an extra 4 antennas.
What a silly question.
You can't face hug properly if you only have 3 antennas.
I miss the trend of them looking like futuristic drones
please dont hug my face
biblically accurate angel
Look like the creatures in Stranger Things, probably will suck users into the Upside down…
If it had 4 more antennae, you could hang this on the wall with legs outstretched then attach a bare ones clock to the middle and you'd have a giant feature clock that doubles as a router.
I was researching about this router and found this comment/response. Thought it might be helpful for anyone deciding.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/hgf6au/asus…
In short, this product (RT-AX89X) is only a dual band router.
that will scare a few people….not sure I want that in my house
For this price you can get a ER-X + USW-8-LITE + U6-LITE and have 3 x more silicon power, plus the benefit of moving the Access point more centrally to your living zones.
These devices are like 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner. They suck.
The 2x2 U6 vs this 8x8??
Oh you’re right - I need 500 wifi clients at my house.
2 x 2 is more than enough and realistically you’ll be throttled by the silicon before you can even have 100 clients on this thing.
What's the point of 8x8 when it's all in the same place?
Lets suppose i get bitten by this creature, will i turn into Wifi Man
Well at least you'll be able to signal for assistance.
How about if im also triple vaccinated for boosted 5G signal
If you want good wifi definitely recommend mesh :)
High end router for big family and small business. But it is NOT good to build mesh network.
why not ?
Every node in your mesh reduces your bandwidth by 50%
Let’s say your first node is 600mpbs, your second node is max 300mbps.
So if your second node has 25 wifi clients they’re sharing a maximum of 300mbps, instead of the 600mbps from the first node.
Then why mesh system is so popular in ozbargain ?
@ChipsChicky: Depends on the setup.
Wireless mesh can be either dual or tri band.
In dual band it is using the same radio as your clients to connect to the node. This cuts the total speed available.
In tri band it has a dedicated third radio for the nodes to communicate. This gives better performance.
The other, and best if possible/feasible, option is to hardwire the devices together. WiFi often has higher claimed speeds than gigabyte, but often doesn't beat it in reality and certainly not in reliability. Depending on the router and node this connection could also be 2.5G or 10G speeds.
How much this matter comes down to your connection. If you're like me and stuck on FTTN and maxing out at 80mbps for the internet it really doesn't matter if the dual band node can't push 600mbps. In my current setup I get the same speed on clients to the internet regardless if I'm standing on top of the main router or have barely a bar of signal from the furthest node.
Internal transfers show up the difference, but anything that really needs to transfer fast is wired anyway. I'll get the rest of the house wired eventually, but the wireless nodes are fine for now.
@ChipsChicky: Because it's convenient. It's like the soundbar of Wi-Fi. You don't need to worry about wiring the other nodes through wall/powerline/MoCA. It works and it's enough for the average user.
i hope this thing can focus the wifi signal and push it out like a voidray.
Scary shape, like tarantula taking a nap !