ASUS RT-AX92U (2 Pack) AX6100 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6 Gaming Mesh Router

Pros: not ready yet Cons: I was hoping this could be a fast mesh router with base stations connected by ax . Sadly, in mesh mode, the only available 5g channel is limited to 866mhz (slow).. limiting oyur bandwidth. Even worse, keeping the channels separate – the faster 5G network is bad – it is very slow (50MB/sec) and is full of jitter. I would not buy this at this stage!

Pros: -Small form factor -Good AIMesh units -ASUS control panel very thorough with many options Cons: -Couldn’t reliably cover 1400 sqft in mesh mode. It absolutely should be able to do this, and maybe one of my units was a dud, but even in the same room I couldn’t hold down anywhere near expected speeds. Overall Review: I’ve got about 20 hours invested into fighting with these. I really thought I’d get them to work and all would be OK. But I’ve got 1400 sqft with these two units stashed about the midpoint on each side of the house, but in mesh mode I had a corner bathroom that was lucky to even connect. Most of the house was pulling through 20-40 Mbps at best; if in the same room, 100 Mbps was nominal, but typically more like 60 Mbps is what we were seeing. The iPhone 11 was the only device that would routinely beat 200 Mbps sitting in the same room, but I never figured out why it was the exception (it was connecting to the same 5 Ghz-1 (802.11ac, not AX capable) radio as everything else). I finally shut off AIMesh (as well as the second remote 92u device) and did a stock reset to the base unit. I have two AX-capable wifi computers in the house (one laptop, one iPhone 11) and tried connecting them to the 5 Ghz-2 (the only AX band and is typically reserved for the backhaul when in AIMesh mode) but couldn’t get over 500 Mbps standing right next to it with 160 Mhz active. A direct connection via Cat6 cable was always 1 Gbps, so I finally gave up and decided it was something with the radio. The goal with this was to get a wifi mesh for our AC devices to routinely be in the 300-500 Mbps range throughout the house to use as much of my AT&T gigabit internet as possible with 2×2 MIMO on most of our devices, but that wasn’t even close to reality. Not even able to cover the entire house was a major issue. Their support phone number doesn’t seem to be staffed during the COVID situation, and the support email address they put in the box comes back as undeliverable. When I tried to register my device on the ASUS website, I got an error saying it was an incorrect serial number, even after it used that serial number to query a database and pull up the AX92U unit information. Never did figure out how to get in contact with their support team for help. Not sure what the issue is as these should have been more than enough, but I returned them. That said, if you’ve got Internet speeds of 250 Mbps or less, these should work out OK assuming they can cover the area.

Pros: This product fixed every issue I was having with my WiFI connections. Cons: Not that this would have kept me from buying it but the looks of the units doesn’t really fit our decor. Overall Review: This product fixed every issue I was having with my WiFI connections. I have 26 items connected all of the time and coverage is good no matter where I am in the house of even out by my pool. I wish I would have bought this sooner!

Pros: I have always loved Asus routers. Other than firmware updates, one can set them up and forget about them. This router is no different. Previous network was 2x RT-ac66u covering 3500sq ft. Coverage was good but the speed was a problem with the kids starting to using more media. Purchased a pair of RT-ax92u and setup AI mesh. The house has full coverage and speed increases from 10-60x in places. The improvement is probably greater but our internet speed is now the limiting factor at 220Mbps. Other than one hard to get room in the house there isnt really a need for the second router. Coverage from a central point would easily cover a first floor of 2000sq ft. VPN speed greatly increased as well. Cons: There were two issues I had during setup. First was assigning static IP addresses to computers (most people will never need to do this) where the router didnt immediately assign the addresses. I had to turn the WiFi router off and then on for it to update. Second, I attempted to attach one of my old RKT-ac66u as an access point and it crippled the AI mesh. Im assuming the network adjusts to the slowest router even if its not part of the mesh configuration. Overall Review: Blazing speeds. It will likely take a decade to max out this network.