Asus AX/AXE Slow Upload Speeds

[IAAI]

Yeah 100USD cheaper for me as it was on sale. I already bought it, but I wanted the AX88 because it had 8 LAN ports and because I prefered the looks way above the AX86.
All the tests I've seen shows that the AX86 have better wifi performance and I need better wifi peformance - I can do without the 4 extra LAN ports, but I can't do with 200mbit wifi when we've got 1gbit Internet connection. I'm really excited to see how much the AX86 can pull. I'm still waiting for the package to arrive, sadly it will be atleast another week.

Just try it out and give it a shot your experience might be better than mine. If I were you I would have chosen the new ROG Rapture GT-AX6000

 

[Naggert]

Just try it out and give it a shot your experience might be better than mine. If I were you I would have chosen the new ROG Rapture GT-AX6000

Yeah lets see in about a week when the package arrives. I'm amazed it can take such a long time to deliver a package ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 isn't available in my country - yet?

 

[astephon88]

I just got a new AX86 set up last night coming from an AC88, and I too am seeing the same behavior. On the AC88, I was consistently getting 700-800 Mbps up/down from wireless clients using speedtest and fast. After setting up the AX86, I immediately noticed the drop in upload speeds to the internet from wireless clients. Both routers were configured stock with different SSIDs for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz and no AiMesh nodes. For my particular setup, it seems to be something odd going on when uploading from the WLAN segment to the WAN segment. Running a bidirectional iperf test from a wireless host to a wired host on the AX86, I see pretty consistent 700+ Mbps upload and download speeds. Using the speedtest CLI client from a wireless node, I get 600-800 Mbps download, but I'm lucky to get 200 Mbps. Running the CLI client on a wired host against the same server, I get 800-900 Mbps for both download and upload. I have FiOS gigabit, if that matters

 

[zackattack784]

Same issue here, AX88U. Just got 300/300 fiber (coming from 250/15 cable). Wired I get 320/340. Wireless 320/250.

 

[alaxgoaly8]

Just got this router (AX86u) to replace the Verizon G1100 router. It has better range, but the upload speeds are half of what they were. Anyone found a solution for this or a similarly priced router (paid about $270) that can handle the upload speeds? I've got 400/400.... on 5ghz, getting 340/170 within 10 ft of the router. 2.4ghz, getting 108/10 about 5 ft away... unfortunately the G1100 router does a better job with the 5ghz signal for UL and DL, but doesn't get the 2.4ghz signal as far as the AX86u or the same DL speeds. UL speeds are better with the verizon router. I tried a netgear nighthawk as well, but that was disastrous. This is getting to be an aggravating search for a router to replace the stock verizon one.

Seeing as how this has been an issue for 2 years and many firmware versions later, I'm going to assume Asus isn't fixing this?

 

[L&LD]

Welcome to the forums @alaxgoaly8.

Did you do a full reset after flashing the latest firmware you want to use?

[Wireless] ASUS router Hard Factory Reset | Official Support | ASUS Global


That full reset above is particularly important if you've been toggling switches on/off in the GUI to see how things work. For many options/features, leaving the feature/option off isn't the same as toggling it on/off. This is where the full reset may help.

 

[alaxgoaly8]

Welcome to the forums @alaxgoaly8.

Did you do a full reset after flashing the latest firmware you want to use?

[Wireless] ASUS router Hard Factory Reset | Official Support | ASUS Global


That full reset above is particularly important if you've been toggling switches on/off in the GUI to see how things work. For many options/features, leaving the feature/option off isn't the same as toggling it on/off. This is where the full reset may help.

I didn't flash any firmware to it... I'm on firmware version 3.0.0.4.388_20566 which is what it came with.

 

[L&LD]

A reset is still suggested (you don't know what the router went through at the factory).

 

[alaxgoaly8]

A reset is still suggested (you don't know what the router went through at the factory).

Won't the factory reset clear out all the set up I've already done?

 

[L&LD]

Yes. It will.

Change as few defaults as possible. Testing, as you go. Be sure your testing includes rebooting the router after every new change.

 

[alaxgoaly8]

Yes. It will.

Change as few defaults as possible. Testing, as you go. Be sure your testing includes rebooting the router after every new change.

There's no way it should have to be that labor intense just to figure out why upload speeds aren't nearly what they should be when an old Verizon g1100 router can deliver equal DL/UL out of the box. Judging by how many people have this issue and that Asus isn't bothering to fix it, I'm just going to return the ax86u and be done with it. It's nothing special to warrant keeping it.

 

[Tech9]

It's nothing special to warrant keeping it.

Mine is going to be donated or dissected for the same reason.

 

[alaxgoaly8]

Mine is going to be donated or dissected for the same reason.

IAAI said he used the AC86u and got full speeds. I'm wondering if it's an ax issue. I tried a Nighthawk ax router and had the same UL speed issue.

 

[Tech9]

Not sure what it is, but I have mostly AC clients like everyone else and AC86U does better job than AX86U. Even with AX disabled on AX86U the clients prefer connecting to AC86U. I did an experiment with AiMesh with main AX86U and node AC86U only 2m apart. When connecting to Wi-Fi in average 8 out of 10 attempts the clients connect to AC86U node. When AX86U is the only router the clients connect slower and the log fills with re-connect events.

 

[IAAI]

Just got this router (AX86u) to replace the Verizon G1100 router. It has better range, but the upload speeds are half of what they were. Anyone found a solution for this or a similarly priced router (paid about $270) that can handle the upload speeds? I've got 400/400.... on 5ghz, getting 340/170 within 10 ft of the router. 2.4ghz, getting 108/10 about 5 ft away... unfortunately the G1100 router does a better job with the 5ghz signal for UL and DL, but doesn't get the 2.4ghz signal as far as the AX86u or the same DL speeds. UL speeds are better with the verizon router. I tried a netgear nighthawk as well, but that was disastrous. This is getting to be an aggravating search for a router to replace the stock verizon one.

Seeing as how this has been an issue for 2 years and many firmware versions later, I'm going to assume Asus isn't fixing this?

forget about any other solution. The only way to fix the wireless upload speed issue is to use your ax86 in AP mode.

Most fios/fiber with symmetrical high speed connections straight from the otn to asus ax routers will not give you the full wireless upload speed apart from ax89 and I am saying this from multiple installations I did.

It was brought up to asus support attention multiple times from different customers they will start by asking you to do what @L&LD asking you to do, hopefully you give up and if you don’t and nothing changes they will issue you RMA claiming its defective then replace it with a refurbished one.

 

[Marcus Yansen]

forget about any other solution. The only way to fix the wireless upload speed issue is to use your ax86 in AP mode.

Most fios/fiber with symmetrical high speed connections straight from the otn to asus ax routers will not give you the full wireless upload speed apart from ax89 and I am saying this from multiple installations I did.

It was brought up to asus support attention multiple times from different customers they will start by asking you to do what @L&LD asking you to do, hopefully you give up and if you don’t and nothing changes they will issue you RMA claiming its defective then replace it with a refurbished one.

so, just to be sure you mean connecting ax 86u to lan port of isp supplied modem/router - and changing the operation mode of ax86u to AP mode rather than leaving it on regular mode?

 

[IAAI]

IAAI said he used the AC86u and got full speeds. I'm wondering if it's an ax issue. I tried a Nighthawk ax router and had the same UL speed issue.

let me correct that . I used Ac68 with dirty flashes and got the full speed.

It feels like asus is ignoring this intentionally and doing the ISP’s a favor

Wait wait wait…. if you think that asus ax routers are horrible for cutting your upload speed to exactly %50 upgrade to their new axe routers and you will get %15 of your wireless upload speed

 

[IAAI]

so, just to be sure you mean connecting ax 86u to lan port of isp supplied modem/router - and changing the operation mode of ax86u to AP mode rather than leaving it on regular mode?

Yes . Doing that will fix your wireless upload issue.

If you think you missed up your router setting trying people suggestions to fix the issue , do a reset then connect asus router to the isp modem/router (for example lan1 from isp router to wan on asus router ) then when you are at the router setup wizard change operation mode to AP

 

[Marcus Yansen]

Yes . Doing that will fix your wireless upload issue.

If you think you missed up your router setting trying people suggestions to fix the issue , do a reset then connect asus router to the isp modem/router (for example lan1 from isp router to wan on asus router ) then when you are at the router setup wizard change operation mode to AP

back in the day and still today people often used to connect router to isp modem..so I am thinking that’s how asus partly optimized its few. But today it is possible more than before to connect directly to fiber so I hope asus takes note and fixes these issues

 

[IAAI]

back in the day and still today people often used to connect router to isp modem..so I am thinking that’s how asus partly optimized its few. But today it is possible more than before to connect directly to fiber so I hope asus takes note and fixes these issues

They may take notes but just bring us their (WiFi-7) router bex99x ultra pro max BE99999 with ultimate BX performance and 4D coverage