I recently finished testing the ASUS RT-AX88U Pro and you can see for yourself the results that I got.

But this is not entirely the point of this post. The problem is that the search engines have become weird, so I need to ask you, the user, if this type of content is useful.

So please let me know if the type of tests that I ran are useful and clear enough. If I can add something or need to remove specific info.

I also intend to move towards video format and to be honest, translating all this written info into a comprehensive video is incredibly overwhelming.

Which is why I need your advice about what needs to be improved. Thank you!

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I have 68U and to be honest it’s good for what I need it but price is approaching professional gear. And routing/switching is mostly been offloaded to other dedicated devices. Considering lightning strikes damaged one of my WAN ports, next device I get will probably not be router of this kind but something like Teltonika RUTRX1 and add missing functionality thought other devices.

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Honestly I’ve given up on single-device setups. Mesh APs with a router that doesn’t do any wifi is what I’m doing going forward. The tech is too different to put into a single device.

I’ve had nothing but problems over the years. Asus, Synology, whatever the isp hands out, etc.

WiFi also seems to be changing nearly yearly while routing (and switching) has not changed much at all.

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Do you have a good suggestion for a router with this setup. This is how I have my network set up now but I need a router upgrade and can’t seem to find a decent non-WiFi router

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I just switched to tplink omada. It’s fine. If I need to look for something else it will probably be microtik. After that I’m looking at real enterprise firewalls.

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I don’t bother with “mesh” type setups specifically, but yeah, router/switch in one device (usually with one or more additional switches for more ports and/or newer wired standards) and APs in separate devices with ethernet backhaul.

These APs could still be all-in-one routers if they have good wifi hardware/drivers and have OpenWrt support, but they are treated as dumb APs that could be swapped in/out if problems occur.

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Great review. I’d like to see power consumption tests too, because this device works 24/7 and sometimes it takes more energy than laptop in a year.

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Thank you for the suggestion. I will add power consumption to the article as well, it’s easy to do so.

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Please put sarons eye in the middle

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You should see the GT-AX6000.

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Since it seems that the link has been removed, I will try to add it in the comments: https://www.mbreviews.com/asus-rt-ax88u-pro-wifi-6-router-review/ What a strange occurrence

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