Asus Router recommendation?

[Midlevel-User]

Only 2 bands on this one ? Losing one of the 5Ghz bands didn’t bother anyone ?

 

[L&LD]

Which 'one' are you talking about? No 'bands' are lost, (are they)?

 

[Midlevel-User]

I thought I saw it had only one 5Ghz band rather than 5.1 and 5.2 but I may have been mistaken -

 

[SwitchBee]

My RT-AC86U has been a bit buggy in the 2.4GHz band. Yeah, it was manufactured in a special year when 2.4GHz coincided with frequency of the lunar resonant oversampling whatever. Or Asus wasn’t particularly competent that year. Out of warranty, so must live with it. My previous AC-68U was so reliable that I just expected all Asus routers to be like that... humbug....

 

[Midlevel-User]

Does the RT-AX88U have 2.4, 5.1 and 5.2 GHz radios ? Also does it have 9 guest network capability as the RT-AC5300 does ? Thinking about switching but the specs online are a bit confusing . . . Thx !

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Grab the 86U or the AX58U. I would never even consider spending what they want for the AX88U when WiFi 6E is just around the corner, and the AX88 or any other AX router out now will never support it. Buy cheap now and wait a bit things are changing fast in the home router world.

 

[Deleted member 22229]

Does the RT-AX88U have 2.4, 5.1 and 5.2 GHz radios ?

The AX88U is a duel band 4x4 router. 1, 2.4GHz radio and 1, 5 GHz radio. Sounds like you want a tri band router. Again wait a bit WiFi 6E will have tri band. 1, 2.4GHz radio. 1, 5GHz radio and 1, 6Ghz radio