I'm in a line torn between either Asus RT AX82U or Asus Tuf Gaming AX5400. Can anyone give advice on which of these routers is better?
Yes they are. What @bill001g is trying to stress is that the big numbers that are advertised probably won't happen. So spending a lot more on a router with big WIFI numbers is not the best use of your money. You would get better WIFI by buying two cheaper routers, connecting them by cable and placing them in different rooms of your house.But aren't the routers backwards compatible with ac?
Yes they are. What @bill001g is trying to stress is that the big numbers that are advertised probably won't happen. So spending a lot more on a router with big WIFI numbers is not the best use of your money. You would get better WIFI by buying two cheaper routers, connecting them by cable and placing them in different rooms of your house.
What do you mean by "gaming port". Just to be sure we understand your requirement.Ok I get that. But there are not any routers i can find that support gaming port whether wifi 5 or 6...
What do you mean by "gaming port". Just to be sure we understand your requirement.
Also what is your upload and download ISP bandwidth ? If you have high bandwidth connections, "gaming" optimizations can actually hurt performance.
With a 150Mbit upload bandwidth, it is doubtful that a gaming port will make much difference. You can only prioritize traffic within the router. Traffic will only be slowed IF the upload bandwidth is used. UNLESS you have large torrent traffic or cloud backups, it is unlikely your upload traffic is very great.Gaming port basically that lan port that prioritizes more speed if its connected to that port according to what this Tuf AX5000 and AX82U mention...and it sounds handy when gaming online. My ISP provides 150/150 Download and Upload.
That seems fine but the router I have AC53 seems to be out of date and no new firmware is around so I thought its best to get a Wifi 6 router that is most likely to get latest firmware.
Explain why you think it would be "handy".
Are you overloading your internet connection in particular the upload rates.
With a 150Mbit upload bandwidth, it is doubtful that a gaming port will make much difference. You can only prioritize traffic within the router. Traffic will only be slowed IF the upload bandwidth is used. UNLESS you have large torrent traffic or cloud backups, it is unlikely your upload traffic is very great.
What is most important? Wired or wireless connectivity?Ok. I'm planning to like, record online games and showcase them on my own channel. Thing is, online games need good internet and the latency so those gaming routers could come in handy regarding that aspect.
As far as upload goes..nothing in particular other than trying to backup my files through Mega and uploading my videos on youtube. Mega just caps it at 1Mbps for whatever reason though and i'm not sure if youtube takes my upload speed in mind...
If that is the case, then what must I do?
What is most important? Wired or wireless connectivity?
Do you have any ethernet cabling in the walls of the house?
Do you have coax cabling in the house?
If WIRED connectivity is most important then look at MicroTik. They have advanced QOS that can do what you want for $50. There is a learning curve, but there is lots of online info.
If WIRELESS connectivity is most important, then the next questions are important. WIFI is best when there are multiple WIFI access points near the client devices. If you can do some kind of wired connectivity, then TWO cheaper AX routers like AX58U routers might be the best option.
You need to think about what is important, not just the hype.
Here is your problem like many gamers you hear the word gamer and think you need it. They used to put the word turbo on all kinds of things for the same reason.
All they are doing is using QoS so make sure game traffic is sent first BUT and critically important this only matters if you have overloaded your internet connection. If the connection is not overloaded data is sent with no delay even without any fancy QoS.
If you had say a DSL connection it might make a difference. Game traffic uses almost no bandwidth but if you only had say 10mbps upload and you tried to live stream you would be close to maxing out that upload rate.
What can happen if you say have a gigabit connection just turning on the function will cap your bandwidth to a few hundred mbps because of how much load the QoS/gaming feature puts on the CPU.
Routers are such a scam in general. They like to confuse people with tech details. There are way to many people that go well if it is so complex it must be something good and I need to buy it not to miss out.
If you keep the ac53 I would downgrade your internet service to 100mbps. The router can not run faster than 100mbps because of the ethernet ports.
I would suggest you buy a fairly basic router. Something with a number 1200-1900. It will likely be faster on wifi and support gigabit on ethernet. These routers support at least 2x2 mimo which matches what most end device are. It won't be fully 2 times as fast but it will likely be at least say 1.5 or 1.75. On ethernet you could connect it to a full gigabit ethernet and it would keep up.
Something like a tplink a7 which has 1750 number on it is around $50 and you can get them used for much less. This is just a example most routers with similar numbers have similar performance. Because they are older they have all stole each others secrets
Note most tplink and asus router firmware have the very basic QoS that would let you favor game traffic if you just can not resist. You would just have to do it manually rather than paying extra for some silly gamer port.
All will work for you. The performance you get will all depend on your end devices. Again if you do not have wifi6 you can not use the wifi6 feature and that router will drop back to its wifi5 support mode and be about the same as router with a 1200 number
The 1900 ones is using a non standard data encoding on the 2.4g band not a lot of end devices support. It is really the same as a router that gets a 1750 number. Again to get even the 1750 number they assume that your end device has 3 antenna and most only have 2. It all depends on the details of your end devices.
All will be fine but unless you have some fancy end devices that can use the extra feature I would just buy the ac59u because it is cheaper.
Almost all routers can be set to bridge/ap mode even the unknown brands you see shipped directly from china. Even if they don't have a AP feature you can make any router be a AP by plugging into the LAN port rather than the WAN port and disabling the DHCP function and change the lan ip.
I actually use asus but it tends to be the most expensive brand of router so when people are concerned about money I tend to recommend tplink. All the major brands have pretty good support the only one you have to be careful of are "value" brands like belkin or buffalo and then you have all those unknown brands on amazon. It is all related to thing like how good they are with warranty service. The actual wifi chips that do all the work are made by the same 2-3 companies none of which actually make their own router.
That is interesting seems you have to search the exact part number they have other maybe older models with similar names. I need to be more careful
Up to you. It will run 1gbit on ethernet...sorry for not spending more time reading specs.
For wifi it is a pretty basic router. If it meets your current needs for wifi then there is no reason to replace it. A newer router might be faster on wifi hard to tell. My guess is the speed would be noticeably faster but much less than 2 times as fast.
As long as you have ANY older WIFI devices, you will have to have WPA2 enabled. Unless you do something that would cause someone to sit and capture your WIFI traffic long enough to be able to crack it, you have little to worry about.But...what about security? Isn't wpa2 going to be unreliable now that wpa3 is out?