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Review on Wi-Fi router ASUS RT-AC88U, black/red by Adam Woniak ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Not everything is so bad, the average purchase in quality.

Left a mixed opinion about myself. On the one hand, it’s not bad if you don’t particularly find fault, but on the other hand, if you look closely, it’s not at all clear what it’s worth such money for. I am the owner of the Asus RT-N56U router, it has been working until now for about 4-5 years, and I thought when I buy this router I will get a much more advanced piece of hardware compared to my old N56U, but I naively thought . Asus is in no hurry to make a revolution . And the funny thing is that they still release clumsy firmware with a bunch of small and not very problems, which over time only begin to upset. it seems that he gave 2-2.5 times more for a router than an ordinary private costs, but he also received a lot of comfort, opportunities in return, but this will not happen (only if you do not switch to this router from models for 1-2 thousand) . I note that there is no direct competitor or analogue for this router model on the market right now, perhaps it will take its piece of the garden until something more perfect or convenient from other competitors appears. I was very upset by the VPN client function - in fact, when it is turned on, it becomes impossible to fully use the router, I explain, as soon as you turn on the VPN client (using one or another protocol), add static. the route of the necessary network to which you need to go - this completes the full work with the router. this ram begins to drive all traffic to static. the route for the vpn of the client, as a result, your home Internet from the provider disappears. The funny thing is that if you even have 2 asus routers - setting up rules and routes for vpn is not possible as such in principle. it seems that asus engineers - the concept of vpn is reduced only to raising the tunnel and sending everything and everything - only there, there is no other for them . And a lot of time spent on forums on asus routers - proves exactly that. I bought it for 17200 - I'm sincerely glad that I managed to return it. I can’t say that the router is completely an outsider, but apparently I expected to get something more perfect for $ 300 for the house.

Pros
  • good space design, clear and easy in terms of almost all settings, sufficiently large wireless coverage area (when used outdoors) more or less "powerful" hardware, for a home segment router the ability to access and manage settings through the application on the phone a huge box from the router - indirectly indicating that you did not part "in vain" not just with money, but with money) the ability to combine 2LAN ports into 1 trunk (useful for NAS), when using a bunch of clients WAN redundancy capability Possibility to disable LED indicators
Cons
  • in an apartment with 2 load-bearing concrete walls - the signal quality of 2.4 drops by a third, 5 Hz and even stronger - at a distance of the client from the router only 10-11m . changing and applying the settings in the router takes place at the level of - 90 years, one parameter has changed - the router applies it for about a minute - by modern standards - it is simply not acceptable button on / off wifi - poorly located (on the edge to the right) - when you take the router in your hands, it is pressed very often and as a result it cuts down wifi, it would be better to swap it with the adjacent LED button . vpn client - what kind of implementation is this in a router for almost 20k money ? ! In general, it exists only for show, in fact it is impossible to use it. (explanations in comments) when you connect a flash drive to the usb3 port, the entire radio module turns off (not always, but about 60-75% of cases it was), as a result, the entire Wi-Fi network turns off, and in order to turn it on, you need to connect to the router again by wire when using the ddns service from asus. Com and enabling in the router settings the ability to connect to it from the Internet, via the web using the https protocol - access to the router becomes impossible, switch to using the regular http protocol - everything works . adding static routes \ permissions or prohibitions on access to certain devices to the wireless network \ Specifying sites that can be opened or blocked after creating an entry - there is no way to edit it later. only the banal is available - delete and create a new record. What if I'm wrong? and indicated an error in the name of a long site? !, or made a mistake when specifying the MAC address of allowed devices - why would I need to delete this entry and create it again? ! etc. - in general, nonsense .

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