• Reviews around radio (2.09 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)

    • but then only the 5ghz radio worked but
    • Then yesterday the 2.4GHZ radio just died completely
    • The two radios are really nice for moving wireless networks around in their frequency spectrums to isolate traffic to clearer frequencies when needed and to keep my public devices (and their congestion) away from my protected and private devices
    • I've had to resort to disabling the 5Ghz radio all together which makes me very angry.
    • The number 1 5GHZ radio just went out and stopped broadcasting
    • The first one I got had a bad radio (1/3 and if I hadn't just bought
    • The two radios are really nice for moving wireless networks around in their frequency spectrums to isolate traffic to clearer frequencies when needed and to keep my public devices (and their congestion) away from my protected and private devices
    • The 5GHz radio died after about ten days.
    • I tried rebooting, downgrading firmware to previous version, powercycling router, enabling/disabling radio in router settings....
    • The 2.4GHZ radio is now completely dead and it doesn't broadcast that SSID
    • The radio is suspect, the coverage range is awful, ASUS support is infuriating, and radio burns out
    • One ended up having a permanent WiFi issue - even after reverting to the old 380-series firmware and performing 8 factory flush resets, the stupid WiFi radios refused to broadcast
    • The first router I bought had a bad 5ghz radio,asus said just return
    • Like a lot of other users - the 2.4G radio failed early
    • However, yesterday the 5G radio failed so it's
    • Like a lot of other users - the 2.4G radio failed early
    • I can only get the 5GHz-2 radio up, after a reboot, power cycle, factory reset, nothing worked.
    • The first one I received had a bad 5ghz radio and was acting
    • I'm using adaptive QoS for VoIP on my iPhone, I've using the traffic analyzer, I'm not using ANY guest network or patently controls, I'm using OpenVPN functionality (defaults don't work...which ticked me off), I also disabled the third 5Ghz radio from the start
    • 5 GHz radio broke shortly after purchase
    • 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
    • I will likely just write this POS router off as a loss, trash it, and buy a good Netgear or D-Link.
    • , i so mad dont even want to replace it