RT-AC88U

I am hoping to see some good Black Friday or Cyber Monday deals myself!

sm00thpapa said:

Damn dude really? But I bet they low ball you. I can get more money selling them on the street.


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Yeah you will get more selling yourself but for me the convenience is worth it. A couple clicks, box it up and set it on my porch and I'm done. I got $120 for my 87 last week.

Have anyone upgraded to this from the ac87u?
I currently have the ac87u, but i don't think the range is good enough. Was wondering if the ac88 would improve that range.

Can anyone with the 88u and stock firmware try to max out the router cpu and watch the utilization logged into the router and share with me if both CPUs are being utilized or just one, please?

I just got the best buy version of this router, upgraded to latest stock firmware, and with old firmware only cpu one was being utilized while the other always sits their idling. Now with new firmware, cpu two is being utilized while cpu one is sitting idle even while maxing out ac connection from a r7000 connecting as a media bridge at AC1300 speeds bringing cpu two to 20-40 percent while other one idles.

It's weird because with xvortex firmware on r7000 it shares the load between both CPUs evenly maxing out the bridge link. On the asus only one cpu being used...

I did get at fastest so far 900Mbps out receive and 600Mbps transmit using r7000 with xvortex in media bridge linked to ac3100 3x3 @ AC1300 with signal of -40 and noise floor of -89.

In lamens terms that's 85 percent of a hard wired gigabit link for downloads via ftp only and 55 percent upload, it's slower in windows copy because for some reason my windows 7 32b ultimate edition is not using newer version of samba to multi thread copy files over from qnap ts251.

So if you were to bridge two 88u's or AC3100 routers @ 4x4 using nitro QAM(1024) at a link speed of AC1700-2168 you would be getting over 110oMbps maxing out a single hard wired gigabit connection.

Pretty cool. I was really hoping for faster speeds between the r7000 bridged to asus router. 900Mbps is fast but I wanted 1000Mbps or faster.

m3tpe said:

Have anyone upgraded to this from the ac87u?
I currently have the ac87u, but i don't think the range is good enough. Was wondering if the ac88 would improve that range.

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I upgraded from a 66U and the range did not increase with the 88U.

m3tpe said:

Have anyone upgraded to this from the ac87u?
I currently have the ac87u, but i don't think the range is good enough. Was wondering if the ac88 would improve that range.

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I upgraded from the rt-ac87u and the range did not increase. Stability is improved, and I do not have to reboot every couple of days to maintain performance.

sm00thpapa said:

Anyone find this cheaper than $279.99 anywhere? I own about 20 routers and if I buy another one my wife may kill me. LOL!


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Neweegg raised the price back to $299.99
I was debating and decided to sleep on it. Guess I'll wait.

formosan said:

Neweegg raised the price back to $299.99
I was debating and decided to sleep on it. Guess I'll wait.

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Amazon and Best Buy still have it for $279.99. But Best Buy only has the AC3100 with 4 ports.

nagle3092 said:

Yeah you


Yeah you will get more selling yourself but for me the convenience is worth it. A couple clicks, box it up and set it on my porch and I'm done. I got $120 for my 87 last week.

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Yeah you're right bro. I just quoted 4 routers and 2 MOCA sets and they quoted me $470.00 I may accept the offer and do it. How long does it take to get the gift card from them?

sm00thpapa said:

Yeah you're right bro. I just quoted 4 routers and 2 MOCA sets and they quoted me $470.00 I may accept the offer and do it. How long does it take to get the gift card from them?

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It depends this time it took about 4 days after they received it. Normally its a day after they received it. Then they just apply the balance to your amazon account. Also I always mark my stuff like new since I have all the boxes and they never downgraded what I was quoted.

Do note though that they say it can take up to 30 days before its processed.

Question to currently rare spiece of AC88U owners:

Do you see outstanding throughput in excess of 750Mbit/s on 5GHz band?

nagle3092 said:

It depends this time it took about 4 days after they received it. Normally its a day after they received it. Then they just apply the balance to your amazon account. Also I always mark my stuff like new since I have all the boxes and they never downgraded what I was quoted.

Do note though that they say it can take up to 30 days before its processed.

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Ok thanks man I'm gonna do it and get the 88U.

dsring said:

I upgraded from the rt-ac87u and the range did not increase. Stability is improved, and I do not have to reboot every couple of days to maintain performance.

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Since I never have to reboot my 87U beyond the extra ports it wouldn't be worth it, well perhaps if my IPTV would work it would be but since ASUS isn't sure why it isn't working on my 87 I doubt it working on the 88 for me either

Ran into an issue with this router. Not 100% sure if it's the Netgear R7500 this replaced or the RT-AC88. I am leaning Asus though. I moved the R7500 into another room and put it in bridge mode. This is causing the RT-AC88 to drop internet connection. I was downloading a file and left it on overnight and it didn't complete says Network Failure in Chrome. Also my Hue lights were plugged up to the R7500 and would periodically go out and be unable to be reached.

Removing the R7500 from the equation stabilizes the performance. I think it's the RT-AC88 because I ran a test on my hardwired computer downloading a huge file on one of those file sharing sites and it also experienced a network failure and the file didn't finish. I again removed the R7500 and tested on both wired and wireless and the files completed fine.

That R7500 was previously linked to a RT-AC87 that was in media bridge mode (sold that for $160 on eBay to help purchase the 88) and there weren't any issues with connections.

I prefer the Asus routers but that RT-AC87 was unacceptable as my main router and even in media bridge mode it needed to be reset every week or so to work properly.

kvic said:

Question to currently rare spiece of AC88U owners:

Do you see outstanding throughput in excess of 750Mbit/s on 5GHz band?

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For those interested;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.2592102

ASUS RT-AC88U Wireless AC3100 Dual-Band Gigabit Router
+
ARRIS SurfBoard SB6183 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem

$289.99
-$50 MIR
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$239.99

formosan said:

For those interested;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.2592102

ASUS RT-AC88U Wireless AC3100 Dual-Band Gigabit Router
+
ARRIS SurfBoard SB6183 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem

$289.99
-$50 MIR
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$239.99

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then sell the Arris for around 95 on ebay.
pretty good deal.

Anyone have a picture of the bottom of the ac88u? Are the holes for wall mounting easier to access compared to ac87? The ac87 require some special sized screws in order to mount it. Was wondering if they did the same for ac88u.

formosan said:

For those interested;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.2592102

ASUS RT-AC88U Wireless AC3100 Dual-Band Gigabit Router
+
ARRIS SurfBoard SB6183 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem

$289.99
-$50 MIR
-----------------------
$239.99

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That's a killer deal thanks for posting. Picked one up. I'm hopeful the modem might give me a little boost in speed as well.

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Yeah..I also noticed your earlier post. Seeking confirmation from more people..

AC88 looks interesting under the hood..