They had the RT-AX82U on the shelf at my Best Buy this past weekend. They also had the Netgear RAX50 there too but on sale for $50 cheaper. I believe these two are hardware equivalents, same 3 core CPU, same radios, same specs, same regular list price.
I had my eye on the Asus going in but walked out with the RAX50. (on price, plus detachable antennas, full LED status lights, and probably a bit more stable having being out a bit longer with a number of firmware updates already)
I only wanted one of them strictly as a 5GHZ only (wired) AP to replace a TPlink C3150v2 used the same way. Nothing wrong with the TPlink but disappointed that there hasn't been any firmware/security updates for it since it was pretty much released,. So avoiding the inevitable when the next published exploit renders it useless.
My main router is the RT-AC86U anyway and I also have a couple other Netgears including an R7800, even an ancient R6250 and even that still gets security updates. RAX50 works well, very good range and pretty stable so far. I recently upgraded to AX200 cards in a fews of my laptops, plus added another new laptop with an AX201 and all work well. Acronis backups work their way over to a 4TB drive attached to the RT-AC86U with at or a bit better speeds than before (AX to the AP, then wired to the Asus).
I'm sure the RT-AX82U will be pretty much the same given how their specs closely match.
