Frankflash
Senior Member
Sorry to read you are having issues with your router; perhaps Asus is selling a different firmware here in North America, but at least for this user, the Asus RT AX88U is a stellar performer, wired and wireless, with many diverse clients.
True, it's expensive to buy (was $245 US on Black Friday), the ASUS RT AC86U delivers excellent performance for much less, but the 88AX work well here.
Hope you get it fixed. Good luck to you.
Router WAN to LAN/WLAN throughput
Why you should care: What if you have 1 Gbps internet, AND are able to get true Gigabit wireless throughput -- you don't want to then find out that you can't access the Internet at gigabit speeds due to a problem with your router (eg: the Netgear R7800 router has a bug that limits WAN to LAN throughput to 340Mbps over port 80).
LAN to LAN -- 941 Mbps -- Great
WAN to LAN -- 340 Mbps -- BAD!
The problem: The dirty little secret in the consumer router industry is sometimes poor router WAN to LAN/WLAN throughput. Because even with crazy fast wireless speeds (above 1Gbps), the WAN to LAN/WLAN link (below 1 Gbps) is likely where you will see a performance bottleneck.
On a 1 Gbps WAN ethernet port, the maximum speed is around 949 Mbps (due to overhead of around 51 Mbps), so you will never get wireless speeds (from the Internet) above that.
Additionally, all of the 'realistic' wireless speeds we have been discussing above assumes that there is no slow down in the router itself moving packets between the WAN port and the LAN/WLAN ports -- but there often IS a slow down.
The router's WAN to LAN/WLAN throughput is often the limiting speed factor. Why? Because the router itself is performing NAT (Network Address Translation), SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) and other tasks (eg: Parental Controls) that takes processing time inside the router, possibly limiting Mbps speeds.
The bottom line: You will NOT get Gbps WAN to LAN throughput from SOME consumer-grade routers. its broken
user Adamm said it been broken for almost a year now