ASUS RT-AC5300

[moby63]

thanks

 

[wsarahan]

Guys

I got my 5300, a guy at eBay sold me one, he will ship for me Tuesday and something about 2 weeks it's in my hands here in Brazil I hope

When it arrives I'll post here my impressions compared to my actual 3200 one

Thanks everyone that helped me, and thanks Merlin

 

[doeboy]

Quick question, is there a way to force a device to a different band under smart connect? My Xbox one and PC are on the 2.4 band I would like to put them on one of the 5ghz band. I am new to the smart connect feature and I am not sure that this is an option

 

[thiggins]

No. Smart Connect does not allow you to directly set how clients connect.
See if your devices allow you to enable specific bands.

 

[monakh]

Try as I might, I can't get the OpenVPN client to work with my VPN provider, there's very little configuration changes you can make in the web-based GUI.

On a separate note, does anyone know how I can make the dnsmasq.conf stick? Do I need to use the 'add' file under jffs? I have a list of 70 IP reservations via DHCP that I am in no mood to re-enter by hand.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: It looks like DD-WRT is supported on the AC5300 as of October (likely due to the hardware similarities with the AC88U). Has anyone tried it? I would have tried it by now as I normally do but I don't want a $400 paperweight on my hands!

 

[madhatter01]

So far this is the best Asus router out of the box. No bugs on my end.

 

[tim]

Quick question, is there a way to force a device to a different band under smart connect? My Xbox one and PC are on the 2.4 band I would like to put them on one of the 5ghz band. I am new to the smart connect feature and I am not sure that this is an option

I don't use smart connect, I use MAC address filtering in ACCEPT mode to direct devices to the required band.
SSID is the same for all 3 bands. Each band has it's own MAC list. I have a spreadsheet of all the devices allowed on my network.
Only phones and some older '2.4G only' devices are allowed to use the 2.4G band.
5G is mostly divided evenly apart from some extenders that I restrict to 5G-1.

Hope that helps.

 

[monakh]

So far this is the best Asus router out of the box. No bugs on my end.

No bugs on my end either and I really don't remember the last time I ran a stock OS on any of my routers (maybe ten or so years). This is the first in a decade or so.

However, Tim is right. This won't cure your dead spots.

 

[wsarahan]

Someone knows when the fw`s will be live at Asus website?

 

[D._Manley]

dlandiss' phone used as a probe under the tests is a Galaxy S5 (#329). It comes with a wifi chip more advanced than perhaps lots of laptops.

I'm not nearly as proficient in these matters as most of you here but I do know the current crop of higher end phones have superb radios. On my AC68U & using the same speed test engines & servers, my only devices that can equal my 5G download speeds on my mobile device is 2, ethernet connected desktop PC's. Even then, there is parity between the hardwired & mobile 5G wireless. FWIW, on 2.4 Ghz there is about a 20% drop-off in download speeds.

 

[doeboy]

Well in my bathroom I was unable to get any wifi connection and my phone would always default to my cell carrier, but now I'm pulling a solid 26Mbps download speed and like my other review says my bedroom went from 2Mbps to 37Mbps, so yeah I think it did cure all of my dead spots that my house had on the N66U. Maybe if you were coming from last years tech it wouldn't do anything, but with my setup it helped out a lot!

 

[thiggins]

so yeah I think it did cure all of my dead spots that my house had on the N66U. Maybe if you were coming from last years tech it wouldn't do anything, but with my setup it helped out a lot!

Did it cure your deadspots on 2.4 or 5 GHz?

 

[doeboy]

Most of the dead spots were cured by the extra range on the 2.4GHz band compared to the N66U. All of my 5GHz devices are one floor down directly below and have connected fine with both routers. My phone, computer and other devices can pull 80+Mbps in the area right below the router, but my problem was that on the other side of my house I was getting at the most 2Mbps or worse. With this router I have fixed all of the dead spots and have more than enough usable data for all of my devices throughout my home.

I have noticed that even in the areas that had decent signal before the change when surfing the web or playing games on my phone (iPhone 6 Plus) it would buffer a lot or lag behind when playing my games or watching videos. Ever since I put the AC5300 I haven't noticed any buffering or slowdowns. I am continually evaluating the routers performance when I'm home and will report back if anything changes.

 

[thiggins]

Since this is your first AC router, I suspect you might have been able to cure your 2.4 GHz dead spot problems with a lot less expensive AC1900 or even AC3200 router.

 

[doeboy]

True I might have, but why not buy the latest generation? It's like saying that a 4th gen Intel processor would suit my needs, but why not get the 6th gen processor and go above my needs now and if my needs increase in the future I won't have upgrade hopefully because the latest one will last longer. Like I said I'll probably have this for 3-4 years like I did with the N66U, so why buy 1-2 year old hardware when you can buy the latest generation? As of now there are really no major issues to report from any of reviews and I'm happy with my purchase!

 

[sm00thpapa]

It's your money buy what you want. I have over 20 routers and use only 2 at a time.

Sent from my LG-D850 using Tapatalk

 

[sfx2000]

Since this is your first AC router, I suspect you might have been able to cure your 2.4 GHz dead spot problems with a lot less expensive AC1900 or even AC3200 router.

The AC1900 class is getting to a very attractive price point now - and little benefit from the AC3200 (basically same design as AC1900 with an extra 5GHz radio)...

 

[wsarahan]

How long do you think guys that the 5300 one will be the top router at the market? Talking about the Asus routers of course

Do you think that next year they will release a new flagship?

 

[sfx2000]

How long do you think guys that the 5300 one will be the top router at the market? Talking about the Asus routers of course

For 2016, the RT-AC5300 is likely top of the range, however, IMHO, I think the RT-AC3100 is probably the best value solution, closely followed by the RT-AC88U -

From an 3rd Party SW perspective, the 3100 is the cleanest solution (no second 5GHz radio, no extra switch chip to worry about).

 

[kvic]

From an 3rd Party SW perspective, the 3100 is the cleanest solution (no second 5GHz radio, no extra switch chip to worry about).

It's the beginning of the end of 3rd party FW. None of them is going to survive without "hardware acceleration". They won't be able to keep up with ever increasing throughput.