Router Ugrade advice

[Dani7420]

Hi all ,

 

i need an advice between this two Router the Netgear AX8 and the Asus RT AX88U .....having a Netgear  R8500 which of these two is better overall. Asus has more lan ports which is great but  i dont know about Wifi coverage ....

 

thanks in advance 

[Stu_Bear]

What speed is your internet?  Those routers look like overkill...

[Sorenson]

I purchased the AX8 earlier this week and ended up returning it because it was worse than my old Netgear Orbi AC2200. I ended up upgrading to the new Orbi AC 3000 and it is fantastic. I know it wasn’t something you were looking at, but unless you have a specific need for WiFi 6 it’s not worth it right now. I have a 2 story house for reference. 

[Stu_Bear]

26 minutes ago, Dani7420 said:

Hi all ,

 

i need an advice between this two Router the Netgear AX8 and the Asus RT AX88U .....having a Netgear  R8500 which of these two is better overall. Asus has more lan ports which is great but  i dont know about Wifi coverage ....

 

thanks in advance 

If your old router is dead...I'd just shop for a descent one to replace it like a Netgear Nighthawk AC2600...it won't break the bank.  Unless you have internet speeds greater than 2Gbs it's not worth buying an expensive model.

[Dani7420]

Naa i dont have a very fast internet  definatly no Gbs speed but the R8500 that i have now doesnt work properly anymore espacially with wifi 2.4 ghz ...one other reason is they are on sale around 250 ..zo i think it was a good deal ...but i see ur points  maybe is worth waiting 

[PowerBaller]

Do you have lots of device that are ax compatible and have the demand for low latency simultaneous Connection. The biggest advantage ax over ac is upload “mu-mimo”, as well as OFDMA .
 

speaking of asus vs netgear; Nergear is notorious in firmware. 

[Dani7420]

1 hour ago, PowerBaller said:

Do you have lots of device that are ax compatible and have the demand for low latency simultaneous Connection. The biggest advantage ax over ac is upload “mu-mimo”, as well as OFDMA .
 

speaking of asus vs netgear; Nergear is notorious in firmware. 

not many device with Ax at the moment but soon i will ....i have 3 console e 2 pc everybody is playing so low latency would be great of course.....

 

about Netgear been notorius in firmware well not so much with my R8500 last one is from Jan 2019 ...in the other hands i see Asus been pretty busy on that front ...especially on the AX88U 

[PowerBaller]

7 hours ago, Dani7420 said:

not many device with Ax at the moment but soon i will ....i have 3 console e 2 pc everybody is playing so low latency would be great of course.....

 

about Netgear been notorius in firmware well not so much with my R8500 last one is from Jan 2019 ...in the other hands i see Asus been pretty busy on that front ...especially on the AX88U 

Gamingwise, the terrible netgear firmware frequently result in transient high latency;(while playing call of duty MW , my ping will randomly jump beyond 200ms ).

FYI the upgrade from ac to ax does not make any changes to your wire Connectivity. The only advantage of Ax88u over ac88u is the better cpu and bigger ram. 

[Dani7420]

1 hour ago, PowerBaller said:

Gamingwise, the terrible netgear firmware frequently result in transient high latency;(while playing call of duty MW , my ping will randomly jump beyond 200ms ).

FYI the upgrade from ac to ax does not make any changes to your wire Connectivity. The only advantage of Ax88u over ac88u is the better cpu and bigger ram. 

I see well another thing that i wasnt aware of Netgear firmware and over difference between Ax88 en Ac88 prijs wise at this moment for 60 i can  get the new one and even is overkill i have something with new tech inside ...but thanks for ur inside !!

[PowerBaller]

3 hours ago, Dani7420 said:

I see well another thing that i wasnt aware of Netgear firmware and over difference between Ax88 en Ac88 prijs wise at this moment for 60 i can  get the new one and even is overkill i have something with new tech inside ...but thanks for ur inside !!

If there is really good deal (ax88u) go for it. 

However if you will have the demand for 10Gbe Lan connection in the future (Such as a highspeed nas for multiple 4K streams or local upload), check out ax89x. It has two 10Gbe port, one sfp+ and one base-t.

 

[PowerBaller]

3 hours ago, Dani7420 said:

I see well another thing that i wasnt aware of Netgear firmware and over difference between Ax88 en Ac88 prijs wise at this moment for 60 i can  get the new one and even is overkill i have something with new tech inside ...but thanks for ur inside !!

BTW even though the ax89x is not yet release in North America, base on the pricing in local Taiwan market, it is 78% more expensive than ax88u. However take a look at its specs....

[Dani7420]

On 1/25/2020 at 4:43 AM, PowerBaller said:

BTW even though the ax89x is not yet release in North America, base on the pricing in local Taiwan market, it is 78% more expensive than ax88u. However take a look at its specs....

wow man that spider design is awesome   much sexyer than the rapture ...but anyway also thanks to ur tips i got de Ax88u for 260 not a bad deal i think and  what a difference in wifi speed !!! ..i dont have a nas with 10gb yet,  neither a gb internet connection but i will definalty  keep an eye on de Ax89x that  seems another monster of a router, yeah price wise will be above 400 maybe even more  ......now that i have AImesh life will be much easyer to expand the network...