Leaderboard

I am extremely disappointed with the RT-AC68U. I have only had it for a few days and it was rebooting for no apparent reason and would freeze often and was not accessible without power reset. It was running extremely hot with two wireless connections streaming 40-60Mbps a piece. The menu/software isvery slow to update setting adjustments. This was my first Asus networking experience. I only chose it because it was in stock and the Nighthawk was not. The lan throughput was a positive point and I did reach 149.8 Mpbs throughput to my ISP's local test server which is higher than 148.1 with my previous router a Netgear AC1750 R6300 v2. Asus support had me update to 205 firmware, which made the router even more problematic. Positives: Wan to Lan performance was very good. Negatives: Not reliable. Crashes often. Runs very warm. UI is slow and sluggish Tech support is terrible, for Europe anyway. I could not understand the man. Very heavy accent and not friendly. I join a long list of unhappy customers of this router it seems. I will return it today for a full refund and hope to find a Nighthawk locally.

Hi Randy, welcome to TestMy.net. It shouldn't slow you down but that depends on a few things. How far away is the computer from the router? What kind of router and adapter? Personally, I always try to have my main desktop hooked up with ethernet directly to the router. I use wifi for everything else. If I connect my office computer to my wifi I still get a nice smooth connection. But I get better performance within my home network using ethernet. No doubt because my router is on the opposite side of the house, my office is in the corner of the house so it wasn't ideal for the wifi. I go to extremes to get the best possible connection... Even if it was in the same room it would be even more reason to wire it up directly. Wireless is catching up but then I'd expect 10G to become standard in the future so ethernet will always be better. Direct connection is always best. Best way to tell if you're losing quality... get scientific. Run a control test using TestMy.net, directly connected to the modem. Then do the same exact test connected to ethernet... then do the same test again on wifi. Maybe run three of each and average. You can separate the results with identifiers, found in a drop down menu on the homepage and test pages. Then you can filter your results using the drop down menu below the graph.. Experimentation will lead you to the fastest setup... I recently moved and rebuilt my entire home network. TMN made my performance instantly apparent and caused me to re-configure my network more optimally. I was able to discover interference, simple channel change on the router dramatically improved wireless. I was also able to see degradation due to a bad cat-5 connector and wall plate that was improperly installed. Testing and retesting ... tweaking this and that until I could get the numbers as close as I could to the numbers I read directly off the modem. End result, my network is faster and smoother than it would have been if I just blindly installed everything. ... experiment. That's what this site is all about.