ASUS RT-AC68U (page 3 of 6)

While I've flashed my RT-AC68U with Merlin, it was still great router out of the box with the supplied firmware.

I've never had to reboot my router in order to resolve an issue, only for firmware updates and external power failures and have managed record uptime with the RT-AC68U thanks in part to the consistency of FTTP.

It's more than 3 years old model but fast and powerful router you can find. I bought this router couple of months ago for my HFC nbn connection and found it fast and easy to set up. It got all the features like firewall and vpn that's needed for home router.

This is an excellent modem. A bit more expensive compared to other modem but totally worth the price. The coverage is excellent. And once setup then just forget about it. Never need to do the "modem reboot" thing. Smart traffic control (QoS) is great. But you can't limit the individual speed with the QoS on at the same time. Overall good modem never go back.

RANGE
i can receive a good signal on both 1st and 2nd floor in my house also in my garage and back yard

DESIGN
I know this is personal preference but I prefer the Asus, followed by the D-link The D-link does seem like the nicest quality. If it were black it would probably win in my book, I keep it in my living room and it is bright red. The vertical stand of ac68u really saves a lot of space

After much research I decided to grab one of these Asus routers. It has increased the wifi availability throughout my whole home can stream music throughout the backyard now. The interface is really is to use and the Asus phone app makes everything like wifi passwords, security and firmware updates really easy to manage. An all round great package. An excellent choice for NBN FTTP.

The stock routers from your isps are not good at all, buy one like this and never look back, has both 2.4ghz and 5ghz, plenty of coverage, sturdy and looks nice, i bought mine eofy for only 170$, well worth the price and has increased my stability. Keep in mind that i have cable so i had to use my stock router as a modem, and connect this to my modem.great interface, Works great no issues whatsoeber

I have only had the router for just over a month, decided to give it a try since I was experiencing 5Ghz Wi-Fi issues with my ISP provided router and had read very good things about the AC68U on Whirlpool. Installation was pretty straight forward for me, having a FTTP NBN connection. I believe that a modem may be required for some other types of NBN connections and for ADSL2 (at least with the version of the router I purchased).

The web interface offers a great user experience - I had previously had Netgear and NetComm routers with very aver...

Been using it for almost one year now and it's perfect.

I was using previously a TP-Link Router and almost once a week I was having trouble with wifi that was randomly dropped. Changed my router to this ASUS RT-AC68U and didn't have any issue so far.

Not using a custom firmware but don't have any complain with the original firmware.

The router admin webpage is really good and easy to use to configure.

I was also having trouble to get WIFI connection in some part of my home with my previous router, but this one is good 100% of the time, 5Ghz and 2.4 Ghz

Great router. Replaced the inbuilt wifi in my modem (via bridge mode - easy to setup) and hugely increased stability and speed. The web interface is great, never had any issues with it (have had it more than six months). Would highly recommend this router over any others - cant fault it.

This is a great router with many features.
Very stable with good distance range easily covering whole house.
Slower to start than rt-n66u but still pretty quick.
Best thing is its build in VPN client or you can easily upgrade to Merlin if you are after more features.
There are 4 or 5 versions around, they vary with amount of RAM on board and CPU speed.
Good and stable distribution of network traffic between wifi ac and n protocols.
Another convenient feature is that you can control it using your phone.

This is an excellent modem and will service near all consumers - beginner and advance. Some of the features are quite hard to access but the most important factor is speed. It's fast and it has great range. I highly recommend buying this but not at the full price. See if you can get it as a second.

Stablized my wifi and boosted its strength. Mobile app is also very informative. Great Qos capabilities. I have optimised my connection for Netflix streaming. Very easy to setup and I highly recommend this router for small and medium houses.There were some issues with my wife's VPN and that still needs to be resolved.

5Ghz and 2Ghz are both fast and the range is quite decent. It looks pretty good and is easy to set up even with NBN HFC requiring PPPoE credentials. I recommend this to anyone who needs a router and not a modem or VOIP. I hope it lasts me awhile.

We purchased the Asus router to replace the so called “free” router supplied by our new ISP. The Asus router has excellent range coverage, great speed and ease of setup. It has many advanced settings you can access with the Asus portal. We have never looked back and Highly recommend this router.

Did some research before purchasing this router about a month ago. The only factor I had in mind was greatest range. This seems to be the best router for range on the market (for both network bands), yet much cheaper the top of the line routers that do a lot useless fancy stuff. If you're looking for a router with the best range for both bands, this is it. If you're looking for the router with the best 5G range, my research seemed to indicate the Linksys WRT1900ACS.

Bought this router to use with my home broadband. You can have fail over internet (so if one goes down, the other connection kicks in), connect tethered phones and 4G USB modems, as well as set up load balancing when using 2 connections. I've been using these options with my 4G Optus modem (as speeds on my home connection have been getting worse recently) and it works great. Router speed is good, however it does seem to lose connection upstairs sometimes. When changing settings, the router can be a bit slow while applying the changes. Still, this is a great,inexpensive router, that easily outperforms my previous router.

Performs at a level similar to models several times the cost. I live in a 4Br double storey house and the range easily reaches all rooms with high quality signal. Already very customisable with the original firmware but even better if replaced with the Merlin firmware. Signal has never dropped out in the time i've owned the router

I upgraded to this router from an old Belkin and the difference is night and day. Speeds improved dramatically on my FTTP connection. The setup was very straightforward and the web interface is easy to use.

The wifi signal strength has been very good and can easily cover our house. The router is situated in our garage but you still get full signal even through multiple walls and out in the garden as well.

The router is left on 24/7 and since I bought it in November 2017 I have not had any problems or dropouts with it, even with multiple wifi connections, Netflix, Plex and a host of other bits and pieces running, this router just keeps on kicking.

I've been a fan / user of Asus routers for years but having moved into a physically larger house I found drop outs becoming an issue - after playing with powerlines, wifi extenders etc I simply upgraded to this and all problems went away and it has been pretty bullet-proof day to day.

I upgraded to this router after being unable to reach maximum NBN speeds advertised from my old Wireless N router. After changing to this modem, have consistently had full speeds. Installed custom merlin software on this device and now it is very customisable. You are able to tweak every setting on this device to make it suit your needs.

Great router to use with custom Firmware (DD WRT) and can learn lot of things with networking and monitor your home network closely. Signal range is terrific and got good download speeds. No more restarts or freezing issues. Very easy to setup and I highly recommend this router for small and medium houses.

Purchased the Asus RT-AC68U as an upgrade to a cheap Netgear router. The Netgear router had terrible wireless strength throughout the house, however the Asus RT-AC68U has no such problems. There’s plenty of features to configure even if you don’t have much networking knowledge. Parental controls work great with the built in Trend Micro software. Highly recommend!!

Great router to use instead of the WiFi modems included with internet plans. Range is great and signal is steady and strong throughout the house. Very easy to set up but also lots of handy features in the software to allow setting up features such as QoS for each device. Definitely recommend

The RT-AC68U still holds true to this day. The hardware specs are starting to get outdated, but if the specs are fine for you (it works great in my small/medium one storey house) then it's a great decision to buy this.

The custom Merlin software makes this thing really great for making full use of this router. I highly recommend this router if you are very tech savvy and need to tinker with your home network and monitor it.

However if you are a simple person who doesn't know much about tech, you may want to get other routers which are bet...

** Poor build quality - warning do not buy **

Bought brand new for the NBN FTTP

After 4 weeks it would lose sync. You had to constantly disconncect wireless devices and reconnect

This happended again at month 3, 6, 9

Then at the 12 month mark the On/Off switch at the back fails to work and you cannot turn on the device any more
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