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A review of the ASUS RT-AX88U Pro + I need your advice! (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by SamB@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I recently finished testing the ASUS RT-AX88U Pro and you can see for yourself the results that I got.

But this is not entirely the point of this post. The problem is that the search engines have become weird, so I need to ask you, the user, if this type of content is useful.

So please let me know if the type of tests that I ran are useful and clear enough. If I can add something or need to remove specific info.

I also intend to move towards video format and to be honest, translating all this written info into a comprehensive video is incredibly overwhelming.

Which is why I need your advice about what needs to be improved. Thank you!

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I'm trying to look for a good Wifi 6E router that can use open source firmware like dd wrt. Haven't been able to find one yet. Any advice?

[–] potajito@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not dd wrt, but I got a redmi ax6000 and after an evening of tinkering I got openwrt working. Pretty good, WiFi 6 and all that for a 100 eur router.

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Not OP but that's good to know, thanks for the heads-up!

[–] RustyHeater@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not 6E but the GLINet Flint 2 runs a flavour of OpenWrt 23.05.

I own the original Flint and I have been really happy with it. It's has a "fisher price" mode for most people; but then you can also log into Luci and really tinker under the hood.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have the Flint 2. I'm only using it as a dumb AP and managed switch but the wireless performance has been a significant step up over previous APs and routers I've owned, even if it doesn't support 6E. And it comes with a couple of 2.5GbE ports so you can integrate it with a 2.5GbE LAN and use with a 2.5GbE+ internet connection (not that it's very common yet).

To OP: the firmware is in its early days (both stock and snapshot openwrt) so you may run into problems with some use cases.

[–] SamB@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I don’t think there are any WiFi 6 or 6e routers that support ddwrt. And only a handful that support openwrt.. Can’t recommend any since I did not test them.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's a decent amount of WiFi 6 routers/APs supported by OpenWrt, but not really 6e: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128_ax-wifi

[–] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Same. I've been looking at this one tho.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

OpnSense for router/switch/etc. and a Ruckus box running the Unleashed firmware for the AP.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Just buy whatever router you want and then buy a wifi6e/Wifi 7 WAP.