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If that's the case, he might have a case to get a refund or exchange. It's a puzzling decision. Asus can easily create a software-based restriction whereas if the first 5G radio is set to 160MHz, it automatically sets the low channels (36-64) for that radio and sets the 5G-2 radio to 80MHz on...

From a regulation perspective, Canada does allow the bands required for 160MHz operations starting 2018 5GHz Regulations in Canada (2018 Update) – SemFio Networks I'm not sure why your unit do not show channels 52-64 available. Perhaps your units hardware revision have some issues meeting DFS...

I did some testing this afternoon with a Linux client instead of Windows 11. First, a direct connection (of the 1G circuit) can do about 700-800Mbit (vs 600 Mbit on W11) I think it's just a limitation of the ancient hardware it's running on and the VM implementation for W11. I repeated the...

They are gravely mistaken. The way to prove it is simple. A little note first - currently the EICAR test site (not the evader) only allows HTTPS testing so you should use SSL inspection. For my testing, I wanted to specifically test the IPS ability to detect protocol anomalies that are used...

You are correct that you have a WiFi 6 (802.11ax) Mesh system. A cople of things to clarify: 1. WiFi 6 allows the use of 160MHz channel width on the 5G radio, but it's far from the only differentiator making WiFi 6 superior. / WiFi 6 has better handling of multiple client load (OFDMA+ Download...

So I tested over the last couple of weeks running on a VMWare ESXi 7 host. It's running on an old HP Proliant DL380 G7 (Xeon 5600 series, dual 6 cores, 12-threads CPU, with 32GB RAM, and 6 x 1Gbe interfaces. The 'WAN' side was connected to a Cogent 1Gbit Fiber DIA. Tests were done after hours...

I spent some time recently evaluating home firewalls including SimpleWall, opnSenses, pfSense, Untangle, and Sophos XG. I also used ClearOS in the past but had some challenges with it being overly disruptive (when configured to actually provide decent security). I have a lot of enterprise...

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You're probably right that it was a special project and Asus just has a better working relationship with Broadcom. Considering Asus doesn't really manufacture any router (it's all made by other OEMs for Asus, similar to how Foxconn makes Apple products) there might be some other things at play...

Customers buy products for different reasons and Asus, like others creates products targeted at these markets. There's no perfect model or perfect manufacturer. It depends on what your needs are. For example, if you have a very big home and no technical knowledge you are far better off using...

I'm sorry but I can't agree with you. First, I didn't blame anyone here. I just got pissed that people who don't even own this model started making excuses for Asus and some being very condescending about it. As for the feature updates - I couldn't care less about almost all of those. I don't...

I stand corrected. I see on Asus website it's Broacom based. It's strange because Asus has a GT-AX6000 submission to the FCC with clear Qualcomm based chipset: Microsoft Word - 18B0158R-RFUSP26V00 Report-華碩(GT-AX6000, GT-AC5400)-Version (V1.0)-15C(2.4G)(刪GX型號) (fcc.gov) - see pages 156-162...

When I bought mine, the other options weren't that great. I thought the GT-AX11000 was the niche product and poor value. The AX-92U and AX-88U weren't all that impressive either with lots of issues reported. I pre-ordered mine since I really liked the hardware specs and historically I never had...

I know Asus is trying. It's just not doing a good enough job and just because the home-router vulnerability landscape is terrible doesn't mean we need to accept it, especially as more people work from home.

When I got mine, there were not much of an alternative. Even now there are very few comparable units. I didn't expect Asus to neglect this product. Having used Qualcomm-based products before in enterprise equipment, I never had issues with update cycles and I never had issues with Asus product...