• Reviews around performance (3.53 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)

    • I bought a pair of these to replace a pair of RT-AC66u's and the performance has been abysmal
    • I really like the performance
    • The Asus covers my main concern secure and reliable performance
    • Performance is spotty
    • The ASUS AC2900 Extreme is just that: Superb performance, excellent information, fast and connectivity is generally easy.
    • Called customer service twice and no success to improve performance.
    • No performance issues
    • Web router app poor performance.
    • Overall performance is excellent, signal range is superior to my previous device, and I am extremely pleased with this purchase
    • The performance is mediocre at best.
    • At this price the performance of this router is unacceptable
    • Great performance so far, had it for more than 3 months and increased my range through thick walls
    • The thing we didn’t like was performance
    • Fantastic performance, both in 2 and 5Ghz
    • However AiMesh has allowed me to repurpose my old Asus router as a mesh “access node” giving me full home coverage with much better performance than I was getting from an extender
    • Superior Performance
    • Kind of disappointing with the $$$ spent expecting much better performance.
    • Not expecting a good performance.
    • Improved our internet performance.
    • As far as performance is concerned i usually have both of my computers turned on and doing something
    • More importantly, the performance was bad.
    • This router has tons of features, and great performance.
    • Solid performance and coupling up with another router in an ai-mesh setup was a piece of cake.
    • so far performance seem outstanding!
    • Slow and unstable 2.4GHz performance
    • Very easy installation, and very good performance throughout my home.
    • Excellent performance and easy setup
    • Good performance and a lot of configuration possibilities.
    • Tried 2 of these, with unacceptable performance whenever QoS was enabled
    • The AirPort was able to handle the Gigabit without any trouble, so it was really about insuring the performance isn't any worse and how easy it is to administer
    • I subscribe to gigabit internet service but never see anything close to that speed over wifi due to the extremely weak range and poor wifi performance of my so-called quantum gateway
    • Noticeably better performance and build quality than the AC-68U it replaced.
    • Gave up after a week of anxiety, frustration and disappointment...sad to see such poor performance from previously reliable ASUS
    • I like the performance of ASUS router products
    • Never mind the fact that in their advertisements, the so-called quantum gateway is touted to overcome many of the very same issues they blame for its poor performance
    • About 30 devices connected, bought this to see if I could get any better performance from my Asus RT-AC3200
    • Great speeds and performance.
    • would say you could spend maybe a $100 less and get more than adequate performance for most needs.
    • For now, the performance has been spectacular
    • I noticed they get a little nice performance boost
    • It's a little on the pricey end of consumer routers but well worth it if you need strong wireless performance, plenty of throughput for a consumer model and a decent amount of wired ports
    • Rock solid performance!
    • This is a router for superb performance, especially with multiple connections at once.
    • It is magnificent in terms of price, easy setup, performance, capacity, heck - you name it
    • After troubleshooting, updating the firmware, and restoring to factory defaults, the 2.4 band eventually started working (although with significant performance loss) but then the 5GHz SSID stopped broadcasting entirely
    • and at one point for about 30 minutes achieved really good performance (50 MB/s) only to have performance tank without me changing anything with the fixes in place the next day
    • I wanted to replace my Apple Airport Extreme, which had a rock solid performance, with something newer since Apple discontinued its wireless router line
    • After making these changes, I have noticed no downside in the router's otherwise stellar performance.
    • Great Performance
    • Not worth considering given its much higher price, inferior performance and functionality.
    • Excellent coverage and performance.
    • I think the AC3100 seems to have some issues like poor 2.4 ghz performance.
    • The Asus covers my main concern secure and reliable performance
    • I think it's a great performance for the cost.
    • my kid hate that I can downgrade performance on specific devices whenever they are hugging all the bandwidth.
    • I definetely recommend this for good wifi performance
    • Easy to set up and operate, great performance!
    • This router is a dream to setup, performance is fantastic and the GUI interface is the best in the industry
    • In a connected home with NEST and RING products which require a 2.4GHz band, I would expect better performance in this band than what we had from the AC3200
    • Sad that an old G Linksys is staying connected more consistantly and showing better performance than this router.
    • But, forgetting what I know and just using the default settings resulted in a great performance on my local area network by all devices and my (yuk) satellite internet access service greatly improved, though I do not claim to yet know why.
    • good performance!!
    • The performance is outstanding.
    • I did go in and tweak some of the setting because this router had some better features and performance.
    • Like many I had bought into the Linksys WRT1900ACS hype only to find it didn't match the steady performance of it's famed predecessor
    • Excellent performance on both bands.
    • Very respectable performanceSet up is straight forward and performance is good.
    • exceptional performance and quality.
    • Poor performance is now shadowed by a bad firmware update
    • Great performance w/ home wifi
    • The 5 gig band does hold on to its connected devices but suffers from poor performance.
    • I bought it at a reasonable price, but I feel very happy about the arrival of new products, and the performance is better than the traditional ones.
    • I absolutely don't need a device on my network that sends out my private information while degrading the network performance.
    • What good is great performance, when that performance is short-lived
    • Wireless performance is solid
    • After reading all of the review it truly does have optimal performance.
    • Stable and extremely fast LAN-WAN routing performance, which is one of my key requirements (to not be a bottle neck to whatever the modem is providing on the WAN side).
    • my kid hate that I can downgrade performance on specific devices whenever they are hugging all the bandwidth.
    • Performance has been excellent as been maintaining&using it
    • very good performance.
    • 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