Asus AX82U vs AC68U

[thewizard1241]

Hi everyone,

I currently have 2 AC68u's and was thinking of upgrading to 2 AX82U in aimesh configuration. The reason i want to upgrade to AX routers is because im starting to get more AX clients in the house (3 so far).

My maximum download is 80mbps and upload is 20mbps

Would there be any benefit of me upgrading to Asus AX82u over the old AC68u that i currently have?

 

[L&LD]

You are comfortably within the capabilities of the RT-AC68U with those ISP speeds.

No benefit to upgrading except for possibly (if perceivable to you), lower latencies.

If your range and your speeds are adequate now, you don't need Guest network isolation to propagate to the AP/node (at least for Guest 1 for now) and your network is reliable and stable, you're good.

However, with the above said, a customer had a few routers (5 in total) with the RT-AC68U as the main and replaced them all with just two. 2x RT-AX86U's. The cost for the upgrade was a little scary for him, but the performance (range, speed, and latency), reliability, and stability (even running on Alpha 4 at that time) was still far above what he had the few minutes it took to put the new routers into service (roughly 6,000 SqFt on three levels).

Regarding the RT-AX82U's? I don't think they can hope to offer that kind of experience upgrade. (But I'll be glad to be proved wrong).

 

[thewizard1241]

You are comfortably within the capabilities of the RT-AC68U with those ISP speeds.

No benefit to upgrading except for possibly (if perceivable to you), lower latencies.

If your range and your speeds are adequate now, you don't need Guest network isolation to propagate to the AP/node (at least for Guest 1 for now) and your network is reliable and stable, you're good.

However, with the above said, a customer had a few routers (5 in total) with the RT-AC68U as the main and replaced them all with just two. 2x RT-AX86U's. The cost for the upgrade was a little scary for him, but the performance (range, speed, and latency), reliability, and stability (even running on Alpha 4 at that time) was still far above what he had the few minutes it took to put the new routers into service (roughly 6,000 SqFt on three levels).

Regarding the RT-AX82U's? I don't think they can hope to offer that kind of experience upgrade. (But I'll be glad to be proved wrong).

I figured id be comfortably within the speeds for AC as 70mbps is quite low but surprisingly good enough even when a bunch of guests come over and connect their playstations and devices.

Lower latencies are defintely a plus as i game and so do others in the house, i use ethernet wire anywhere i can so it isn't a huge bummer if the latency isnt as good

Thats an interesting story, my isnt isnt massively huge but im guessing ill only ever need 2 routers in mesh format no more. I might just wait for WiFi 6E devices then, maybe by then ill have faster internet available in my area for 500ish mbps.