I've also read that the SmartConnect feature on these is unusable unless you are a serious expert with hours to spare (see the recent WireCutter review)

Easy setup, with easy to use software that comes with a robust feature set for any home router

So many features, STRONG WiFi signal, great for wired gaming as well adding no latency

Game Boost is the name they've given for their QoS controls and basically if you enable them in combination with any of the above other useful features, nothing can access the internet

One of the best interfaces and features I've seen on a consumer wifi router.

This router touts several features that, when activated, display a license agreement that states that any information passing through the router (from you, family, or friends) may be sent to Trend Micro

(Don't believe the hype- their equipment is terrible.)Some great features

The features it has, along with the incredible range, plus it is REALLY easy to use compared to other routers... makes this router the best I’ve ever seen or heard about(provided it continues to work this way.

Many, many useful features

I bought another brand witch is much more better features and accessibility with same tag price.

Tons of great gaming features

For an expensive router touting so many capabilities, it is lacking one very important feature I need and that is samba sharing so I can use it to backup my computers to an attached storage device.

Love the features and the strong 2.4G signal

Gaming/Performance - I really love the gaming features of this router

Smart Connect (the feature that automatically switches devices between its 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz 1 and 5 GHz 2 antennae which enables you to broadcast a single network name (SSID) in your home) works like a charm, too!Awesome, awesome router

I disable the wireless feature on FIOS Wireless Router.

You will probably not be able to eMail support right from this router with all the pertinent information included, so that feature is useless.

This router has excellent management features that allow you to control your home wifi.

Despite being priced significantly higher than most competing routers I splurged on the ASUS RT-AC88U because I liked the features and the mobile application that allowed me to remotely manage the router

Unless you activate those useful features, such as traffic analyzer or parental controls, and agree to the EULA, your data is presumably kept private

I believe that the advertising stating “AiMesh is an innovative new router feature that connects multiple ASUS routers to create a whole-home WiFi network

Second issue, there are options to select within the firmware if you plan on gaming so that you have less lag and a faster connection; a great feature.

Although this is a consumer router, it has a lot of excellent features that could be improved upon a little, but I do not know of ANY other router that has this many features, esp with internet protection that are nearly as easy to setup.5 star performance and features, 4 stars parental controls, 3 stars App.

- On (i LOVE this feature, the router smooth and seamlessly connects devices to 2.4ghz or 5ghz depending on quality and congestion of signal and capability of device

Random features such as print server will suddenly become disabled with no troubleshooting options

I opted to disable this feature as it was causing a lot of confusion for non-technical users in my home.

I chose this over the Nighthawk XR500 because of the extra features available

Feature rich.

It has a built in VPN that is a great feature if you are concerned about online security

When I initially tried this the feature just did not work

I really liked the feature that lets it auto-assign your devices to different bands.

AAA router, great features, blazing speed, awesome app

So basically you have to disable what ASUS advertises as the great feature of this modem

It has excellent bandwidth, great security features, and a lot of flexibility for setting up port forwarding and VPN function

I gave it two stars because it does have nice features when it works.

This router is excellent, full of features and the built in 8 port switch is a very appealing feature to reduce # of devices in the room.

Time will tell how useful his feature will be

Great router and awesome admin panel and features, looking forward to checking out the AIMesh stuff soon.

It is packed with many features and performs just great -- fast connection speeds & stability!A nice feature is that there are 8 (!

Great range, impressive feature set, 8 gigabit LAN ports

The docs make it seem like this is a free feature, but it really isn’t

Love the connectivity features

Awesome interface, great protection for your network and awesome features

I was looking for a router that could provide better coverage for a larger home as well as some security features and parental controls

Good speeds and features

but I needed better wireless strength and this router has delivered on that and has other great features.

I am just in love with this router and it's awesome features.

Like I said it has lots of great features

The feature appears in the configuration but does not work at all.

Recent security improvements to Windows 10 eliminated use of an obscure feature called SMB version 1.Windows supports versions 2

If you opt out of providing them with personal information the features are automatically disabled.

Mac user and one of the most important feature for me, was to be able to back-up my Mac with HDD connected to router, using Time Machine

I like these small features that the GT version comes with that helps in small ways

Second issue, there are options to select within the firmware if you plan on gaming so that you have less lag and a faster connection; a great feature.

Overall I highly recommend the GT-AC5300 if you really are going to use the awesome features it comes with, want the 8 LAN ports and better hardware specs

All the other features are useless if my devices can't connect.

This beauty has so many features that can and will expand with my network

I did however try the smart connect features which again is one of those things that sounds great on paper but works terrible in practice.

and I really like their feature set

so many features.. easy to use and setup

Even better, by using the Smart Connect feature on the Asus, I only have one SSID now, and the router decides automatically whether its better to place a given device on the 2.4 or 5Ghz band, based on traffic, interference, etc

But once it made its basic WAN connections, the features of this router really shined

If you're interested in a router with many great features and don't care about your privacy, this one is also for you

I love the mesh feature.

The most important feature, it is realy realy fast connection

Game BoostThe main feature of this router simply doesn't work

In fact I turned every other features off (like firewall) and it still couldn't make the basic function work

Great range, blazing fast connection, immensely feature rich

Love the added feature with Merlin

At the end of the day it doesn't matter how many great features something has if it just keeps boot looping

This is way too expensive to be missing features

No reliability problems, coverage is amazing, and its loaded with lots of useful and neat features

Great features but did not offer the range I was expecting in our home.

, I like the features it has

Great security features.

and I really liked the features that are available with this

The Smart Connect feature which auto-selects which of the three bands is best for each device has been optimized in firmware updates; basically since Dec 2015 it has been good.

Setup was easy, and the software has a great feature set, including things like dual WAN capability for automatic failover to an LTE connection or second internet feed, which you would see more often in enterprise solutions

Probing the unit with an SNMP tool shows that it does not respond to SNMP inquiries and looking around inside the unit (via telnet) shows no SNMP software is present (at least, nothing that I can find).So really, for $230 one gets a very basic wifi router with barebones IPv6 support and missing features.

Although I have not used them, the built in NAS / DNS services are nice features although some have questioned the security of ASUS file sharing, you would need someone with more knowledge to comment there.

I enjoyed the features like it telling you who and what is using the router real time and etc

But if you understand networking - you'll love the features and flexibility of this router!Speed wise, I'm pushing 400Mbs right now over WiFi

This router has the greatest setup features over many used in the past

I had some initial problems with the dual wan fail over/ fail back feature, but ASUS tech support quickly had it figured out and working properly

I didn't get a chance to use its fancy features

ok router for speed, lot of fancy security features, parental control etc. had old version N66 and this one is a great improvement

A nice feature is the one or separate passwords for the 3 available bands.

The only reason we did not stay with the Linksys EA9500 is because the features were bland and it had to connect to Linksys for certain features to work but its range was bar non the best

Another great feature was the AiProtection which I enabled

I chose to buy another ASUS as I am familiar with its firmware and like the robust feature set such as VPN, Parental Controls, built in security etc

Feature rich and easy to configure.

Connectivity - A neat feature are the first two gaming ports that I use for my two gaming stations

The best features are: the VPN, the compatiblity with OMG and the Wi-Fi wireless network for visitors.

It has great management features that are easy to navigate around, and the companion app makes it easy to configure the router without being on a computer

A lot of cool features

I don't use any of the "gimmicky" features that could be buggy or impact performance such us;

I did go in and tweak some of the setting because this router had some better features and performance.

Lovely feature

I really like other features of this router like well known user interface and good WiFi

The software is by FAR the best feature of the product.

The features on this product and the user interface are amazing

Since DMZ devices that connect other devices contained in their own networks are open to the Internet, the NAT feature is very important here.

ASUS has a nice usage stat feature that shows you what each of the connected devices are up to; I was able to see what my smart tv and google chromecast were up to,

There are 2 issues I have with this router that dropped my rating down to 4 stars:- While the adaptive QoS feature is better than most other QoS implementations, it still doesn't provide direct access to the FQ_codel engine, which is an extremely important function for any gaming router today.

Great feature to put a usb wireless sim.

Great features and options to tweak your network.

I would suggest ensuring that your WLAN cards can handle 5Ghz bands, otherwise do not use the Smart Connect features which use Dual-Band to route the service as it will look sluggish

The Easy connect feature is nice as all devices see only one SSID regardless of band and the 3rd party add-ons analytics user interface and security were good

it has some nice features to segregate traffic from friends and family while visiting.

Being able to run a VPN and the internet at the same time is a particularly nice feature

but it has unfortunately been one disappointment after the other despite of the awesome feature set and the great range that this router has

This has too many "features" making it a pain to setup and maintain.

Asking me to dumb down features and turn things off is insulting as the router should work with all the features you guys market

This router looks amazing, I love the features, but sadly it didn't last very long.

I like the firewall and antivirus feature

Overall, the router was stable and very fast but for some reason these two features stopped working

Using the smart connect rules, I was able to get the router to stabilize as long as I kept everything from connecting to the 5Ghz-1 (Lower) channel.

Very frustrating as I'm technology literate and have used an earlier model with similar firmware.

I've had high hopes of one day it may just start working as it should considering what I've paid for it

They will not give you a refund for the unit and will continue to send you a refurbished unit that is very likely to break as it seems these are hit or miss on hardware issues

QoS and bandwidth manager works as it should

I asked for a warranty replacement instead because I have no other router, but they have to escalate it up and get it approved as that is not standard procedure

The downside is that file transfers for my laptop to my multi homed NAS box (an 8 by Synology with network teaming) isn't as fast as with the Google OnHub that I pulled out to test this.

We have multiple clients attached, our labtop can finally work as it was designed

I'm really bummed as I was excited about this router and have had nothing but good things to say about ASUS from my experience with my old router

Works as it is supposed to

n’t go wrong with this router

n’t had not one issue at all