• Reviews around asus support (3.91 of 5)

    ASUS AC2900 WiFi Dual-band Gigabit Wireless Router with 1.8GHz Dual-core Processor and AiProtection Network Security Powered by Trend Micro, AiMesh Whole Home WiFi System Compatible (RT-AC86U)

    • And what does Asus "support" tell me, sorry, "this does not qualify for a replacement unit" so they refuse to replace
    • Asus "support" is of no help at all.
    • I tried again yesterday and called Asus support, they came to the conclusion that the wifi signal doesn't work.
    • Asus support wastes an hour on phone trying to make sure I was resetting it properly
    • I called Asus support to make sure I wasn't missing something, the phone support person really liked that I knew what I was doing and made the recommendation that I add a 2nd router in repeater mode, (this option would cost me a minimum of another $100-200)
    • Eventually I had to contact ASUS support, which I did yesterday.
    • I contacted ASUS support and they gave me an RMA# to send them back the unit for repair
    • ASUS support is even worse
    • Reaching Asus support was easy and could getsomeone to talk to me on the phone fairly quickly who created an RMA for repair
    • So I contacted Asus support again and supplied them with all of the debugging information that they asked for
    • Even called ASUS support for their reset and diagnostic procedures, same result.
    • I contacted Asus support and provided the problem information
    • I contacted Asus support and after 10 days of emails, it became obvious that they weren't getting any closer to a resolution.
    • ASUS SUPPORT IS TERRIBLE
    • With all of the ASUS routers that I have installed, this is the first time I have had to work with ASUS support
    • The radio is suspect, the coverage range is awful, ASUS support is infuriating, and radio burns out
    • In spite of hours online and further hours on the phone with ASUS support, I had to work this out on my own
    • I had to spend 1 hour on the phone with Asus support where I was escalated to a supervisor to troubleshoot the router.
    • Will update if when I get it back from asus support
    • Ultimately I was asked to return this back to Amazon after again going through Asus support hell
    • ASUS support is unaware of how TCP/IP works.
    • Most disappointing thing is that it's very difficult to get anything out of Asus support - warranty doesn't seem to mean much
    • The experience with ASUS support has been very disappointing so far
    • I tried to get help from Asus support in Poland (where I live), unfortunately they could not help me because they
    • Asus support was willing to help but not very knowledgeable and very quick to pull the RMA trigger saying they have had quite a few calls for it
    • Second, and almost as important for me, Asus support Staff was easy to reach, professional, courteous, and patient.
    • Now after 4 weeks of going back and forth with Asus support I get an email from them today asking 'what the problem is.
    • ASUS support provided no help whatsoever in getting this trash to connect to the Internet.
    • I have tried firmware upgrades, read all of the forums, worked with Asus support and cannot get the 2.4g band to work.
    • Missed the return date policy because i was trying to troubleshoot this issue with Asus support
    • I've been in touch with ASUS support multiple times and they have no answer
    • Talked with asus support, they acknowledged it was faulty
    • It got stuck in LED flashing loop and even Asus support couldn't helped me
    • I contacted ASUS support and Neil S and Kristoffer H and Jhoanna P and Medard M. and John S and Jhed C and Ren M. and Alexis G and a couple of others who didn’t provide a name, all sent
    • I will contact Asus Support and see how they can help me with this issue (a new unit or a refund is expected to be honest)UPDATE: after contacting Asus support the unit was replaced and right now it is working fine, I won't update the firmware for a few days just to make sure it doesn't break again
    • I Emailed ASUS support and they replied with a request for information that I included in that first eMail (such as the firmware version).
    • I reset the router, tried different firmware versions which I downloaded from the ASUS support site, restored the router to factory settings, verified the 2.4 channel's radio was enabled, and other troubleshooting steps.
    • Contacting Asus support if you have any technical expertise is useless
    • The radio is suspect, the coverage range is awful, ASUS support is infuriating, and radio burns out
    • Asus support painfully slow to fix and lots of back and forth
    • ASUS SUPPORT IS TERRIBLE
    • ASUS support is even worse
    • Asus support wastes an hour on phone trying to make sure I was resetting it properly
    • And what does Asus "support" tell me, sorry, "this does not qualify for a replacement unit" so they refuse to replace
    • Based on other's experiences with ASUS support, I'm not even going to bother trying to send it in to have it repaired.
    • Asus support has been less than worthless.
    • This router and ASUS support are pieces of garbage.
    • I contacted ASUS support and over the course of SIX WEEKS I was bounced between support agents who each gave me a canned 'thank you for contacting asus support!
    • I'm still waiting to receive it from asus support
    • After a couple of more hours trying to access the online GUI from which I repeatedly got a "not authorized" message, trying to find something helpful on the Asus support pages and re-reading the manual I simply gave up
    • Asus support tried to debug it and we tried 3 sets of firmware from Nov 2017 up until the latest 3.0.0.4.384_20379 and none of it worked
    • - Joan in ASUS support arranged for service work.
    • I also searched and posted 2 separate posts on the Asus support forums and received the same general response
    • Worked with ASUS support for 3.5 hours, last person I spoke with put me on hold for 40 minutes and never came back
    • but Asus support wanted to use my network as a test for several weeks while 2 levels of support ran through their written script
    • Called ASUS support, was told to send it back, since it's out of warranty, for sure I have to pay for the shipping, and most likely I need to pay for repair/replacement
    • I've replaced it with a spare router I had (the one I actually bought the ASUS router to replace) and am waiting for a response from ASUS Support on my RMA request
    • Based on the cost vs how long it lasted without issue and the fact that the ASUS support was
    • Asus support just said bad router and to return it
    • ASUS support is really slow and told me that they couldn't troubleshoot because I'm not using it, in the NA region
    • ASUS support is really slow and told me that they couldn't troubleshoot because I'm not using it, in the NA region
    • They gave me some technical info and recommended asking ASUS support to see if there were tweaks to settings that might work
    • ASUS support is excellent as is the product.
    • After trying several power cycles I gave up and called ASUS support who had me do a hardware reset of the router
    • Asus support painfully slow to fix and lots of back and forth
    • ASUS support had no answer as to when issue would be resolved
    • Very frustrating as I'm technology literate and have used an earlier model with similar firmware.
    • 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
    • Works as it is supposed to
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • QoS and bandwidth manager works as it should
    • 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
    • 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
    • I've had high hopes of one day it may just start working as it should considering what I've paid for it
    • We have multiple clients attached, our labtop can finally work as it was designed
    • We have slow internet (8Mb/s)
    • We have slow internet (8Mb/s)
    • We have slow internet (8Mb/s)
    • n’t had not one issue at all
    • n’t go wrong with this router