ASUS TUF GAMING AX6000 WiFi 6 Dual Band Multi Gigabit Gaming Router

This router is very capable with Wifi 6 for both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, 160Mhz channel width for 5Ghz, and 40Mhz for 2.4Ghz, making wifi speeds very fast and the signal strength from the 6 antennae is great.For port connectivity there are two 2.5Gbit ethernet ports, one for the WAN and one for LAN along with four more 1Gbit ethernet ports for LAN. This means if you have >1Gbit fibre internet, (I have 1.6Gbit, which is the fastest openreach do and therefore will be the same for many others in UK) you will be able to actually get that speed on a PC, reliably via a wired connection.It has a lot of useful functions as well as connectivity, it can create most types of VPN, host files on USB drives, even torrent files, send magic packets etc. This means it is effectively a simple server, and always on, yet using low amounts of power.A great value router overall!

I replaced my sky hub with this, its brilliant. So much more functionality.The signal can reach down the end of my garden (100ft long) with the router in the middle of the house. My Nest cameras even started working better, I assume the sky router was throttling them for some reason.I have quite a network heavy home, and sky hub would often crash quoting "access point full" but this router has been solid ever since installing. Very easy to set up and with the 2GHz ethernet ports its future proofed.

I originally purchased this router as a replacement for my standard virgin media provided one as the routers that ISP's provide are always substandard. This was a great replacement and provides brilliant signal around the entire house providing you set it up properly and don't have it hidden away in the corner of a room.I think there is a lot of misconceptions around routers and their role in replacing ones provided by your service provider :- This will NOT magically improve your download and upload speeds if you do not have the throughput for it to do this.- There is only so much a router can do against the laws of physics, if you place this behind 5 concrete walls, regardless of the model of router you WILL have bad signal.When it comes to computing. Especially networking, your experience is always dictated by your weakest link. For example if you have a gigabit connection up & down and then have a older router it will not be able to deliver these speeds over wi-fi, this is where a product like this comes in. I have a gigabit connection up & down provided by Toob and I can get roughly around 800Mbps of that over Wi-Fi thanks to 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) where as before on the virgin media Superhub I would get roughly 400-500Mbps as this was the weak link in the system.Now these speeds over Wi-Fi are only achieved on devices equipped with network cards capable of picking up these speeds (this is back to the weakest link analogy), older devices like for example an Xbox One original will NOT be able to receive these kinds of speeds as they use older network cards that utilised older network standards. This is not the fault of the router but the age of the end device, the Xbox in this example.In conclusion, this is a great product if you have the service to use it at it's full potential. I'm incredibly happy with it's Wi-Fi signal and performance and also the plethora of features in it's settings page / settings app.

I actually think mine might be faulty so am trying to contact the manufacturerI bought this after reading many online reviews. Bought to replace a working fine but ageing TP-Link VR600 Mk 2. The Asus is very easy to install just using the app, which also has a lot of options to control in this unit. The standard webpage interface is of course more powerful and has more options but the app is really handy. As I have a 1Gb/s internet connection I decided to use one of the 2.5Gb sockets. It works really well and I get good speedsOne of the main reasons for buying this model was the superior wi-fi coverage of the beam-forming mesh system. Unfortunately the WIFI of this product is simply unfit for purposeRegularly throughout the day my phone (and other wireless devices) report either no wi-fi or 'connected without internet'. If I turn off the wifi on the device and back again it sometimes finds it but other times can go minutes or longer with just no wi-fi available (my next door neighbours' network and the people across the roads network show just fine but not mine). Using the WiFi Analyzer app it shows no availability for the 2.5Ghz network and sometimes sees the 5Ghz network but with a signal strength less than -90dBm. I've tried different channels and settings but nothing works. This happens even if I am sat next to the routerThen there is the wifi coverage which is a whole level worse than the old TP-Link model, despite being more modern more powerful and with WiFi6. The claimed 'beam forming' is just marketing junk and doesn't exist, the range is poor and the signal levels low generallyThe wired connection which is used by my PC, works laptop and my Smart TV all get great speeds and shows as connected, but throughout the day lose all bandwidth. If I am in a Google Meet or Teams session the audio and video breaks up and lags, web pages give error codes, my Microsoft 365 shows connection issues as does my work software. My smart TV shows no connection etc yet the modem is stable and the router logs show it is connectedAll in all this is a good looking router with great controls and capable of fast results - but is unreliable, inconsistent and has the worst wi-fi performance I have ever seen