Thanks for the quick responses, In regards to an enterprise router, is ASUS BRT AC-828 as compare to Asus rt ac86u able to provide a better fail proof plan in regards to speed and wifi coverage?

A glance at the left-side area above the two radio SoCs illustrates my point about the AC86’s cleaner RF front end. It can be connected to, but occasionally there is no internet connection or even if it does, it is very patchy. The Guest Network provides Internet connection for guests but restricts access to your local network. Inherited from the Asus GT-AC5300, the RT-AC86U’s Game Boost helps gamers get their game on in the right way. By the way, I tested the mesh setup in a full-wireless configuration, which is not ideal due to the inherent signal loss.The Asus AC2900 RT-AC86U offers a wide range of applications via its USB ports, including the support for Time Machine backup and a cellular dongle.

All your family members, young or old, are exposed to the dangers of internet every single moment they're online. The advertised Mac Time Machine feature doesn’t work easily at all and the eventual work around left to be found by the user (not Asus help desk) ends up shutting down the wifi signal causing continued failure. Depending on what Asus routers you put in the mesh, you might get even faster or slower performance. You need to make sure the IP range for the small subnet between the Sky Hub and the Main router does not conflict with any private IP ranges you already have. GHz channel bandwidth was initially set to 20/40 MHz, but the octoScope Pal test client kept disconnecting.General settings include Guest networking, a Traffic Analyzer, USB storage settings, AiCloud settings that let you set up your own cloud server, Adaptive QoS with manual and automatic bandwidth limiting and application-specific prioritization, and Game Boost, which gives you access to WTFast routing technology and the Gamers Private Network to provide optimal bandwidth for WTFast-enabled games. Originally from Chicago, IL, Dan studied comedy writing at Second City and worked as a Chicago sports journalist for a number of years. We don’t do heavy gaming but we have a family of 4 doing lots of video chats, streaming, working from home, and an old NAS on a 1Gb Ethernet switch.

The web console opens to a network map that shows all connected clients, your internet and security status, and Wi-Fi information for each band. to security to fast speeds, everyone can find something to like about this high-end dual-band AC2900 router. But it’s just my experience and I don’t intend to discount anyone’s account should they have a different experience. The RT-AC86U also has other little helpful tools, such as the ability to wake a device up via a LAN connection. ASUS RT-AC86U is the ultimate choice for gaming, with blistering 2197Mbps Wi-Fi speeds, MU-MIMO technology and powerful game-boosting features including the WTFast® game accelerator and Adaptive QoS.If you’re in the market for a great, scalable Wi-Fi solution, look no further than the RT-AC86U (or one of its AiMesh-ready cousins). Three-stream 2,4 GHz and four stream 5 GHz AC class router with gigabit Ethernet ports, USB storage sharing and MU-MIMO support. As a single router on the 5Ghz band, it has a sustained speed of 837Mbps in close range and 801Mbps when I move the Wi-Fi client 40 feet away with a thin wall in between. At 30 feet, the RT-AC86U garnered 150Mbps, once again besting the Linksys WRT32X and the Synology RT2600ac, but trailing the D-Link DIR-885L/R. There’s a reason network professionals use tools like iperf that remove as many of these variables as possible, and instead only report on the actual throughput of usable data received over a given PHY.

f., but the various rooms in the house are somewhat separated by walls, and in some cases up to a max of three (3) walls.

The router's vertical mounting stand limits where you can locate it, and its file transfer spee Regarding the access point, I wasn’t sure if the old Netgear AC1750 router would bottleneck any performance gains from the main router. The ASUS RT-AC68U/NETGEAR R7000 "First Look" review has been in the top-five most read articles every week since it was published in October 2013 (!