TheLyppardMan
Very Senior Member
I have just carried out some Wi-Fi tests using my Asus RT-AC68U running Merlin's firmware (Build 380.58_0) and comparing it against the performance I get using Devolo 1200+ ac Powerline adapters. I have one Devolo unit in the dining room at the rear of the house and one in my son's bedroom upstairs, at the front of the house (it's only a small, modern mid-terraced house). I used my daughter's laptop for the tests as it has dual band capability. The results were quite surprising in that the 2.4GHz band from the router (the ASUS2G SSID in the screenshots) performed quite well, whereas the 5GHz band would not even allow the speedtest to complete, simply grinding to a halt. I repeated the test, just to confirm and the same thing happened. I then went back to my own PC and took some screenshots of the networks as they were being analysed by inSSIDer. I've uploaded some of these in a pdf document but they were too big to upload them all.
Given the hype on the Asus router box, it would seem that the reality is somewhat different. Note, I have changed any of the advanced Wi-Fi settings. The only changes I made were to the name of the SSID and limiting the bandwidth to 20MHz on the 2.4GHz band.
Given the hype on the Asus router box, it would seem that the reality is somewhat different. Note, I have changed any of the advanced Wi-Fi settings. The only changes I made were to the name of the SSID and limiting the bandwidth to 20MHz on the 2.4GHz band.