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I have extensive technical knowledge and feel sorry for the average user who has surely been put through a ming boggling nightmare by buying this piece of crap router. I bought this router as part of ...
I want to start by saying that I am a Software Developer, have worked at Amazon Web Services and am currently at another Cloud company. I have extensive technical knowledge and feel sorry for the average user who has surely been put through a ming boggling nightmare by buying this piece of crap router.
I bought this router as part of a series of network upgrades I was making in my home. Since I game a lot I figured the fact that it catered to gaming would have been a great addition.. I couldn't have been more wrong.
1. Enabling any of the router features such as QoS, Game Boost, VPN, Firewall, etc, causes the router to lock up. This is especially bad when you're playing a competitive match in a video game and get wrecked because you lagged out.
2. Adding an AiMesh router in my home was worse than pulling teeth. Literally spent hours trying to get my RT-AC68U added to this damned thing.
3. Seems to be some issue with the broadcom hardware internally but one of my ports keeps dropping from 1000mbps to 10mbps over and over.
4. Support forums banned me instantly during the SIGN UP process of the ASUS ROG forums. Thinking this was some major glitch, I tried signing up with my second email address. That got instantly banned too.
Support is non existent and the router is extremely glitchy. A router this expensive shouldn't have these kinds of issues. Do not buy this router.
May 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase