ASUS RT-AC5300
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joe012594
Regular Contributor
Are we talking specification-wise? If so, Netgear's R8000 wouldn't last long, since it's an AC3200 class router. Between the RT-AC5300 and the DIR-895, it would be a tough call as neither product is available yet and, for all we know, D-Link may have had far more time to develope their version (no where near as many bugs). I believe D-Link announced at the beginning of the year, if I remember right.
Who do you think would win?
Veldkornet
Senior Member
The Asus RT-AC5300. It looks like it has been sent back in time, from a different dimension, to save us from crappy wifi!
RMerlin
Asuswrt-Merlin dev
I was referring to the fact that they all look like spider robots.
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joe012594
Regular Contributor
Ah ok. Then then RT-AC5300. lol!
sfx2000
Part of the Furniture
I would consider the RT-AC3100/RT-AC88 series to be the real update to the RT-AC68 series - the RT-AC87 is really a branch after reviewing the ASUSWRT code base... and with single 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios - smart connect might actually work well...
The "RT-AC3100/RT-AC88" Router/AP has potential to be a very good device - keep it simple and it should be solid - and with 4*4:4 radios in both bands, should see good performance across all clients including legacy 11b/g/a/n...
The QCA based Linksys EA8500 AC2600 device has good feedback - would be interesting to see what Broadcom's solution does...
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sfx2000
Part of the Furniture
Darkhorse Candidate - Many Antennae device - Linksys WRT1900ac, lol... it's got the antennas and the size - and the *WRT build legacy, lol
My money is on the DLink AC3200 thingy - taking ID to the extreme!!!!
sfx2000
Part of the Furniture
Funny that they didn't go to an eMMC - 16GB/32GB eMMC modules are very cheap these days, mainly due to tablets/phones/chromebooks/etc... adding the driver changes to the GPL dump is pretty straight forward since they already support SD...
sfx2000
Part of the Furniture
Seems to be really impressed with the industrial design - not...
IFA (and other trade events) can be overwhelming...
RMerlin
Asuswrt-Merlin dev
Probably because, like most manufacturers, they stick to the reference design supported by Broadcom.
They do have something with MMC somewhere down their roadmap based on recent code changes...
sfx2000
Part of the Furniture
Looking at the same source - yes..
NightOwl326
Senior Member
Check out this link:
RT-AC5300 | Networking | ASUS Global
https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC5300/
RT-AC5300 | Networking | ASUS Global
https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC5300/
pege63
Very Senior Member
Think that evolution has gone overboard completely, instead of taking up clients that support these speeds so is ignoring them completely. In the current situation it is only a small number of clients that support AC 433Mbit less than 687Mbit onto eg laptops, mobiles and so on. I do not see the support off MUMIMO NOT even TurboQAM so what does it matter if a router can perform 5Gbit, when there is no support is available for it. Think it is completely illogical and totally not interesting what it can do theoretically on paper when it does not even show half of it practical, do not understand the hysteria about performance, that's not all.
NightOwl326
Senior Member
New stuff is just interesting to follow. How many they sell to who and why is a different story. Just fun to watch the roll out. As for the rest of your post I am in total agreement!
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pege63
Very Senior Member
I am also a technology freak and always want the Recent Subscribers technology, but then you get so damn disappointed that it does not deliver what it promises. What annoys me most is that they do not even take up these clients to work with their goods. If you take up a new router so it takes well presented eg USB clients that support them also otherwise it makes no sense right?
RamGuy
Senior Member
It's more "future proofing" that anything else. You won't see many notebooks, tablets or phones supporting TubroQAM or MUMIMO at the launch of this router. But I do expect there to be products within the next 1-4 years that will support it and purchasing routers like the RT-AC5200 will mostly be an investment for years to come.
The interesting part with RT-AC3200 and RT-AC5200 does not lay in TurboQAM and MUMIMO (RT-AC3200 does not support it anyway), its more about Broadcom's X-stream technology which is quite interesting in a day and age where many of us tends to have tons of WiFi-clients in our home and we keep getting more for every year to come with the huge push towards IoT (Internet-of-things) etc..
X-Stream seems like a logical next step in terms of consumer WiFi in order to ensure stable, reliable and efficient connections and speeds to the clients that needs it the most. I do not want my Fitbit Aria "Smart Scale" to bottleneck the WiFi-connection to my MacBook for instance. Having a router with X-Stream capability that tries to apply smart algorithms in order to intelligently shuffle and switch clients between WiFi connection in order to ensure optimal performance for everyone is a really smart and good thing.
I'm very interested to see if Broadcom have improved upon X-Stream in any meaningful way with the RT-AC5200. Because it does feel like its something that's not yet fully working with my RT-AC3200, that's for sure. Many clients keeps getting disconnected at random.
The interesting part with RT-AC3200 and RT-AC5200 does not lay in TurboQAM and MUMIMO (RT-AC3200 does not support it anyway), its more about Broadcom's X-stream technology which is quite interesting in a day and age where many of us tends to have tons of WiFi-clients in our home and we keep getting more for every year to come with the huge push towards IoT (Internet-of-things) etc..
X-Stream seems like a logical next step in terms of consumer WiFi in order to ensure stable, reliable and efficient connections and speeds to the clients that needs it the most. I do not want my Fitbit Aria "Smart Scale" to bottleneck the WiFi-connection to my MacBook for instance. Having a router with X-Stream capability that tries to apply smart algorithms in order to intelligently shuffle and switch clients between WiFi connection in order to ensure optimal performance for everyone is a really smart and good thing.
I'm very interested to see if Broadcom have improved upon X-Stream in any meaningful way with the RT-AC5200. Because it does feel like its something that's not yet fully working with my RT-AC3200, that's for sure. Many clients keeps getting disconnected at random.
Exactly man. I can't even make full use of my ac68u as theres no mobile 3x3 client available yet. And I've had the router for two years now :/
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