Should be getting faster wifi at longer range, more stable too
features wise...AX20 has no useful features around, to be honest...

i wonder how the ordinary folks who bought this crap AX56u and face disconnections will feel as i saw so many complaints on the Asus thread.
Most people just buy a router , installed and never touch it again . my taman i see so many complains about their router performance.
they dont know a thing about the router , or login or how to optimize.

the point i get at is how can Asus do this . release a crap router at premium price.
For most people they just want stability and good wifi performance at day 1 .

for me i think asus is now overated .. i find it hard to recommend this to non experts when there are good cheaper performance router s around.

just my opinion.

Hi mate.

First of all, I am thanking you for expressing your point of view towards the brand and the router model. I stand with my point without being affiliated with the brand or being sponsored to defend them. My point is based on my own eyes looking at how they handle the problem and tries to solve the problem. I do agree, ASUS routers are quite pricey compared to other normal routers. Do note that, the premium price you pay, has its own advantage. Most of us including me, will use a router for about 3 to 4 years, depends on how well we take care of the router (more heat, less lifespan or less heat, more lifespan). If you see between three major brands, I mean networking gear brand, only ASUS provide good after sales support in terms of firmware support. I do agree they're quite slow when it comes to fixing bugs, but they took responsibility seriously. Quoting your sentence, "just buy a router, installed and never touch it again", so, if your entire home network is/were compromised by the cyber-criminals, who you should blame? Routers are like computers. They need to be constantly patched with newer firmware to secure the network. From my personal experience, I've used their famous AC68U and, until now, the model is still receiving its update (3.0.0.4.386.40558 dated on 5th November 2020). Do note that the router was released back on somewhere on October 2013, which means 7 years already.

"ASUS is the only vendor not storing any hard-coded credential in its firmware images." - by Peter Weidenbach and Johannes vom Dorp of the Fraunhofer Institute. - Source.

Closing my point here, among networking gear provider in Malaysia, only ASUS took their responsibility seriously. Other networking gear manufacturer may have cheaper router models in the market, but they tend to ignore the current model revision and release newer revision, which is pointless. Some may ignore the bugs presented by independent analyst and this has to be brought up to the public just to get the attention of the company itself. To simplify my sentence here, "router is not just a hardware to connect you to the internet, it acts as your gateway between your clients and the internet, same as the gates that guarding your house from thieves.". You paint the gate so that it doesn't age and do not get rusty which will be easier for the criminals to sneak through your home while you're away, same principle applies to router, securing your router is same like painting your gate with newer technology to prevent the rust a.k.a vulnerabilities present in the current firmware.

P/S: I will take your sentence (problem faced by the common people), "just buy a router, installed and never touch it again" and inform them behalf of the non-techy /non-experts people that, they should implement an auto-update feature in the future firmware release and should be made as a mandatory feature implementation across all their networking gear product line-up.

i agree with all you said in msg. and asus do make great routers. a joy for techies .
for the common man ... this is a stressful journey due to lack of knowledge. its highly tech stuff.
All they know is i always get disconnection, my speed so slow ,
its will be great if there is a router all auto driven by the firmware . like select best channels , self optimize , plug and play.
for the techies they can select a alternate firmware where they can select their options.

i was using an asus AC1300 4 year now , i bought a tplink ax20 3 months ago just to play around . cos it was cheap .
both are great routers as performance and coverage wise i test was about the same . i like the ax20 for its minimum settings.
you need to be expert to understand all the asus setting like 100 of them

I get your point there mate. Sometimes, I do wonder why ASUS cramp so much unwanted feature in their entry level routers (which won't be fully utilized by common users). On the other hand, for power users under a tight budget, this will be a good option for them to fully utilize the router. Regarding the auto <thing>, most router coded like that these days. In other word, setup your PPPoE credentials, your wireless SSIDs and router login credentials, then you're good to go.

Secondly, Archer AX20 surprisingly a good router. Heck even better than the AX56U in terms of wireless performance. Additionally, it does have a standard features, not too advance and not too basic. Archer AX20's settings seemed simple due to the execution of its user-interface and correctly mapped main button for the feature access (talking about visual pleasing experience). For my personal usage, I only use ASUS (for consumer grade router) or Mikrotik for enterprise (if needed in the future).

Why ya?

Hi

get Ax20 since with quad core processor. typically more powerful than dual core AX50.

http://en.techinfodepot.shoutwiki.com/wiki...K_Archer_AX1800

This post has been edited by shahie: Nov 29 2020, 10:07 AM

Dear all Sifu. I plan to replace my tplink archer c1200 unifi router, where 2 tplink range extender RE450 (ground floor 40feets away from router) & RE650 (1st floor 60feets away from router ) connected to the router. I always have wifi performance issue from RE650 where download speed around 50Mbps-80Mbps. RE450 i can get almost 200Mbps. I currently using Unifi 500MB package.
thinking replace with router to improve my wifi performance. May i know which router below is better ?

Please advise. thanks.

TPLINK-AX20
ASUS RT-AX55
ASUS RT-AX56U
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This post has been edited by gerrard75: Dec 19 2020, 04:09 PM

deco x20 / x60

no...get deco mesh X60, but bare in mind, you still lost 20 to 30% of your ISP speed if you use the wifi backhaul instead of ethernet backhaul, but still more better than range extender, which at most you lost more than half.

Thanks for the suggestion, There is no way to implement ethernet backhaul due to my house design limitation. but i feel so wasting to sacrifice my range extender as i bought it so pricey. i just wondering getting a better router may improve my current wifi performance.

My friend drilled a hole between ground floor ceiling to first floor to get Ethernet cable upstair 😂

But i afraid i could not do it, my parents will kill me.

no guarantee also. my setup last time before getting deco also with 2 RE450, 1 RE650, 2 dlink Dir882, all of them in wired AP, from my main mikrotik router. the only downside side was roaming not as fast as deco does.

This post has been edited by shahie: Dec 20 2020, 09:52 PM

What is your opinion on RT-AX55 seems like it using the same chip as RT-56U albeit with less DRAM and and Flash memory

its priced at RM349 currently
https://shopee.com.my/Asus-RT-AX55-AX1800-W...0984.4161367975

Oh yeah its also support WPA3

This post has been edited by Doraku: Dec 20 2020, 06:02 PM

Not sure on that.

I am currently using second hand Asus AC2600 from Singapore M1 fibre bundle.
Already tucked away the TP-Link AX50 in the storeroom. (My most disappointing purchase)
Already give up on Wifi6 AX. Back to AC for me.

Taking about TP-Link my C1200 starting to have weird ass DHCP problem , After awhile of power it on the DHCP server not responding and giving my client a local IPv4 Address, I have to either restart the router, setting a static IP on all of my client or use IPv6

This post has been edited by Doraku: Dec 21 2020, 12:35 AM

Hi guys. How to setup ax20 for hyyptv. Because if choose the vlan Malaysian-Unifi option, lan 1 is for iptv and lan 4 is for voip. How to remove the voip?

What was disappointing about the AX50 router? Was it the heat issue?

AX50 = Mostly scam by TP-Link. They stated the router will receive WPA3 and OneMesh, but they renegade on it. Plus, the router basically abandoned by their engineer immediately after the "flash sale"