Asus RT-AX88U

Packed with features but a bit half-baked. We expect this to improve with time.

Nick Ross

Asus’ new RT-AX88U is from the alien attack fighter school of router design, so its angular black chassis, four large antennae and gold detailing will look awesome or awful, depending on your personal taste. The theoretical speeds offered by AX6000 routers are (roughly) 6,000Mbps: 1,148Mbps on the 2.4GHz channel and 4,804Mbps on 5GHz. We’d love to have tested maximum speeds but, unfortunately, AX Wi-Fi adapters won’t be available until around Q3 2019. While we had an AX-compatible Samsung Galaxy S10+ phone on hand, this could not beat older AC Wi-Fi speeds using the Asus, even when used as a tethered, USB Wi-Fi dongle. We also tried to transfer files from a directly-attached, fast USB SSD but, try as we might, we could not convince the router to enable transfers. This…

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