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Review on Wi-Fi router ASUS RT-AC66U, black by Linh Chi ᠌

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Not worth taking this, doesn't meet any standards.

I bought it in December 2022, revision A2, and now I'm frantically looking to take it as a replacement. Before that there was a hell of a cell - 3COM OfficeConnect Wireless 54 Mbps. Fiercely slowed down and hung on that corbina, an eternal source of pain. From 1 torrent, the entire network died, all other devices were cut down. Then, I took an asus WL-500W from a friend for a week, and immediately bought myself the same one. It was high-high-high. The first router of the N standard in general. I plowed with the firmware from Oleg for 6 years, and just in 2022 I wanted something even faster, because the era of fullHD + the most fashionable 3d on TVs has come. I took AC66u after the most positive experience with the previous model, I expected to install it and forget it. And it turned into a constant dance with firmware, restoring them. I tried different official versions, hoping that in a year, maybe they'll fix it? Merlinovskie drove the same way. The power supply was replaced by old memory - nothing helped, the Wi-Fi dumps did not disappear. And the feeling that year by year are progressing. And now it is not clear what to take to replace this.

Pros
  • Free dynAmazon out of the box, a useful feature after all. Well, he plowed for 6 years, he did not die with the ends. The abundance of firmware, Merlin's out there. The wired part plows smoothly all these years (4 ports are occupied).
Cons
  • -After 2 years, from any shutdown (even just from the outlet), the firmware began to fly off - manual restoration, and it's good that I was there. Otherwise, relatives without an Internet would have been sitting for a long time. -After 1 year, the first problems with Wi-Fi began - when transferring large volumes, the transfer choked, and the files had to be sent again. And a year later, Wi-Fi networks began to fall off, on any device, any phone, and so on. It was treated by manually switching to another range (from 5GHz to 2.4 or vice versa). And now it loves to meet the abyss, where you can’t see it in the list of available networks, until the device is rebooted. The reason, I suspect - a very nasty cooling system.

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