Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've had the RT-AX86U for a month now. It's a great router when it works. Pros.... Excellent wifi signal range, with caveats Great throughput Durable construction Cons... Throughput to the WAN drops daily Sometimes takes a while to communicate with ISP for DHCP Wifi stops communication with WAN In the beginning, this router had everything I was looking for. Excellent wifi range and throughput, bonded LAN ports worked well with my NAS, and my wired connections through my gigabit switch had no issues. I then began to notice some quirks. The most problematic issue was that throughout began to drop significantly on a daily basis. My download speeds would drop from 200+ Mbps to about 5 to 7 Mbps. A reboot of the router would correct the problem. The second minor issue, which was probably a firmware bug, is that when using bonded WAN connections into the router, the status display would report the WAN speed as being 100 Mbps, although the router connection to the WAN, where the IP address is shown, reported a 2Gbps speed. I could not discern any loss of speed there other than the aforementioned speed drop issue. The third issue, after almost a month, is that the wifi appears to have lost its internal connection to the internet. None of my wifi devices could receive data from the internet. My cell phones would connect to the router or report the SSID had an excellent signal, but report no internet or limited access. The router device list did not show any wireless devices. I performed a factory reset. It then took a very long time for the router to obtain an IP address from the ISP. I tried two different DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems, with no improvement noted. I finally removed the RT-AX86U router and reinstalled my old RT-AC68U. All of the issues immediately disappeared. Since it has now been 32 days since I received the router, I don't think I can return it to Amazon. I suppose I'll have to work with Asus on these issues, which is disappointing, considering how much the router cost me.