Decided to give one a try due interest on the forums and the very acceptable price for a dual-band, 4x4 AX router.
Since it has only been up for a couple hours, it is too soon to say more than it works just fine. I like how the management interface exposes lots of things to tinker with, much...
Upgrade your switch to support newer standards. Just keep your legacy 1Gb switch for the clients that don't like connecting directly to multi-gigabit devices.
For my use case (AP mode), the official firmware was unacceptable, so I used the initial beta release until this beta appeared. It has been problem free ever since install.
I had a slowly dying router (not RT-AC86U) that caused much frustration for many months. Trying new firmware, downgrading back to older firmware, resetting back to factory defaults, lots of testing, etc. I figured out it was bad hardware after borrowing the same model from someone, and realizing...
Ionizing radiation (short wavelengths) like X-ray and Gamma, are what you need to worry about. Radio and microwave are long wavelength. What makes microwave radiation unique is that it is absorbed by water molecules, so you will literally "cook" from the inside out since you are 50+% water...
The 3.0.0.6 beta works flawlessly for me. Can't say the same for the official release. Something is not right with DNS, for the AP, which causes NTP to fail and retry every 30 seconds. Will continue to use the 3.0.0.6 beta for now.
For less money than I spent on the RT-AX86U, which is no longer favored by Asus, I purchased the GT-AX6000 used from Amazon. It just works, unlike the RT-AX86U which has always been rather quirky. Not sure if it is the firmware or possibly defective hardware, but the 2.4GHz radio has never been...
Pages are VERY slow to load. The menu buttons sometimes work, and then don't. Active content does NOT update.
Wireless functionality is fine. If I had no need to log into the router, everything appeared to be working. However, if something needed to be done, using the web GUI is almost...
I decided to give 22068 one more try, but this time with a reset (from the GUI) after the install. So far, it seems to be fine, but 22068 has been both fine and broken right after install, so I will give it a few days and see what happens.